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In December 1917 Lenin assigned a 500 ruble salary to himself as the Secretary of the Council of the People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom), the first government of the Soviet Russia. In March 1918,...
Stalin joined the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin, whom he finally met in 1905. [3] . Tasked with raising money, Stalin resorted to criminal activity, [4] Stalin took a leading role in the planning and execution of the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery.
Alexei Rykov succeeded Lenin as chairman of the Sovnarkom, and although he was de jure the most powerful person in the country, in fact, all power was concentrated in the hands of the "troika" – the union of three influential party figures: Grigory Zinoviev, Joseph Stalin, and Lev Kamenev.
Lenin and Stalin were both influential leaders of the Soviet Union, but they had distinct differences in their ideologies and approaches to governance. Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik Party, was a key figure in the Russian Revolution and believed in the establishment of a socialist state through a vanguard party.
10 mar 2022 · Joseph Stalin participated in the 1917 October Revolution and started working for the Soviet government during Lenin’s tenure. His concentration of power began in 1922 when he became secretary...
19 lip 2018 · At the time, Lenin was the revered architect and elder statesman of the Bolshevik revolution, while Stalin was an ambitious rising party leader. Theirs was a clash not only of political vision...
Prior to taking power in 1917, he was concerned that ethnic and national minorities would make the Soviet state ungovernable with their calls for independence; according to the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, Lenin thus encouraged Stalin to develop "a theory that offered the ideal of autonomy and the right of secession without necessarily ...
