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The Tsar created a parliament called the Duma with the promise of a more democratic government, but this did not happen
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Russia suffered as a result of the impacts of the First World War and the Tsar abdicated
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Provisional government want win the war and then social reforms ,but the soviets want peace and reforms inmediatily
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Lenin wrote a document promising peace, bread, land and freedom.
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Russia was divided in two factions:
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Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to restore order and increase prosperity.
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Each republic had a government but they all had to be communist.
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died of aterosclerosis
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After Lenin's death there was a struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky , but Trotsky was finally murdered in México by a fanatic spanish stalinst.
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Under Stalin, the state planned industry and agriculture with a commission called Gosplan .In 10 years the USSR had almost doubled its industrial output but the price was misery and low living standards for Soviet workers.
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Private property disappeared.
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Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a personal dictatorship where the communist ideal was still alive but filtered by his powerful personality. He ruled over the USSR using three tools :Cult of personality,The Party and The terror