Russia

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and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world. In order to obtain the immense amount of money needed to maintain his militia, he began a series of five year programs which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end of the harvest and then have the state subsidize all of the production. This system, aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime. After the death of Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist party. Stalin's death marked the end of supreme power for the head of the party, and Khrushchev condemned Stalin's actions as unnecessary and harmful to the process of moving the Socialist government to it's goal of pure Communism. During this period the public was given a say in the government, albeit an extremely minor one, and the judicial system eased it's aggressiveness ...

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a wealth of natural resources. It has a well-educated population and a diverse, but declining industrial base The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), came to power in the early 1900s and implemented their style of authority to the empire. Their objectives were to lead the n empire into prosperity while utilizing Karl Marx's proposed doctrine for a communal, classless environment where the workers will be using their abilities to satisfy their own needs. Brezhnev had now assumed control of the Union. A rigid Stalinist with hard-line ethics, Brezhnev's goal was to make the USSR into one of the strongest political superpowers in the world. The military was richly ...

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