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This war would last for over 3 years tearing up Russia piece by piece. This war started because half of the russians took after an idea was produced by Lenin's Bolsheviks (these were called the Reds) and the other half of Russians who did not agree were called the Whites. These two groups then fought against each other.
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In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
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By the end of the Russian Civil War, more than 15,000,000 had been killed or died. This was a rough time for Russia and they lost half of the population. They could not fight any longer.
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The leader Lenin died from a series of strokes
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Stalin abandoned Lenin's economic policy and installed a system of central planning, which dictated everything from where factories should be built to how farmers should plant their crops.Stalin introduced a policy of collectivization, under which were created governmentally owned and operated farms in which peasants pooled their lands.
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created the Central Purge Commission, which publicly investigated and tried members of the Communist Party for treason. 700,000 were executed and 2.5 million soviet citizens were arrested because of this
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Stalin's main advisor Sergei Kirov was assassinated prompting stalin to begin the "great Purge" of the communist party.
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Announcement of the discovery of a plot against Stalin's regime headed by Leon Trotsky ushers in a large-scale purge in which thousands of alleged dissidents in the armed forces, the Communist Party and the government were sentenced to death or long imprisonment
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sign a non-aggression pact including the partition of Poland (and assigns the Baltic states to the Soviet Union)
