Soviet Communism

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Soviet Communism
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.064

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Abstract

The history of Soviet Communism starts with the Bolshevik Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917 and ends with the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, thus encompassing a period of more than seventy years. The Communist Party, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), and Lev Kamenev (1883–1936) formally came to power as the result of a coup d’état on November 7, 1917, but it became the dominant political force over most of the territory of the former Russian Empire only in the early 1920s, after a prolonged civil war.

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