![]() ![]() ![]() Lenin permitted temporary private enterprise, allowing farmers to make profits to encourage production. ![]() WWI and civil war devastated Russia's farmlands, and Russia suffered from famine. Anti-Bolshevik White Armies stormed Moscow, but the Reds defeated them. Trotsky was Lenin's right-hand man and the creator of the Red Army. Stalin was a minor figure in the new communist government. When the Czar's government collapsed, Stalin returned and edited "Pravda," which hailed Lenin as Russia's savior. Stalin was imprisoned and escaped several times. He took up the alias by which he is known. Stalin read Karl Marx and organized oil strikes. Russia industrialized much later than the West. Stalin was born in Georgia in 1879 to poor parents. Russia conquered the Georgians, south of the Caucasus, in the nineteenth century. Peasants worked Russia's vast, seemingly endless planes. Stalin waves at the citizens marching in celebration of their leader. Introduction to Stalin's Times (01:02) FREE PREVIEW ![]()
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