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Stalin co-writes, with Lenin, "Marxism and the National Question"
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The ·Bolsheviks get power
·Beginning of Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg -
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Stalin Becomes a force to be reckon with.
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Stalin marries Nadezhda Alliluyeva
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Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.
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Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Lenin, in a postscript to his Testament, warns the Party to remove Stalin from his position of power
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·At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.
He Begins the chase for absolute Power -
Assasination In Mexico city
Stalin Sends agents to kill or capture trosky.