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AP Comparative Government & Politics: Russia section of course

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1738825580Vladimir LeninFounded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. Led the October Revolution with the Bolsheviks in 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. Ruled USSR until his death in 1924.0
1738825581Josef StalinSucceeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition until his death in 1953.1
1738825582Leon TrotskyFounder and leader of Red Army, good friend of Lenin. Expelled from the Communist Party and exiled by Stalin in his quick rise to power.2
1738825583Nikita KrushchevClose advisor of Stalin, major contributer to the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death.3
1738825584Mikhail GorbachevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, introduced the idea of paerestroika to Russia4
1738825585Boris Yeltsin1st president of Russia, drunk, liberal communist5
1738825586czar nicholas IIlast czar of russia6
1738825587KerenskyHeaded the provisional government after Czar abdicated. Supported democracy just like allies, also felt the need to keep promise to allies and continue fighting the war, which was his eventual demise.7
1738825588BolsheviksA group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 19178
1738825589KhruschchevRussia leader in cuban missle crisis9
1738825590BrezhnevA policy proclaim in 1968. Declared that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in any Socialist country whenever it said so.10
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