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Was born in Georgia
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He joined to the war of the Russian Socialists against the Tsarist regime; when the Social Democratic Party was divided, it followed the Bolshevik faction.
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The First World War starts. He immediately assumes an internationalist position, essentially equal to that of Lenin
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He arrives to Petrograd and was radically opposed to the provisional government. Defend the continuity of the revolution and the passage of all power to the soviets
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Seeing already the victory of the Red Army in the civil war and worried about the economic reconstruction of the country, he proposes extraordinary measures that, a year later would be adopted by the Soviets under the name of NEP (New Economic Policy)
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Definitive victory in the civil war. He remains, formally, at the head of the War Commissariat. There is famine in Russia
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The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is founded. Stalin is elected General Secretary of the party
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Lenin dies. In his will, he warns the party against the danger of trust the power to Stalin
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Expulsión de la Unión Soviética y anulación de su ciudadanía. Exilio en Turquía. Stalin, después de aniquilar cualquier oposición, asume tardíamente las propuestas económicas inmediatas de Trotsky: colectiviza las tierras y realiza la industrialización acelerada del país, utilizando, sin embargo, métodos burocráticos y, por eso, causando inmensas e innecesarias pérdidas.
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El segundo plan quinquenal fue más factible gracias a un mayor número de inversiones y a una técnica más adelantada. Se distinguió porque, aun concediendo un lugar de favor a la industria pesada, se procuró aumentar la producción de los bienes de consumo
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Stalin dies. His government had lasted 24 years
