monstrously unfair policy that discriminated against them
             After the death of Lenin in January 1924 the Soviet Union went through a power struggle. In which Stalin deceived several of his political allies through deceit and manipulation in order to gain power for himself, Stalin as party secretary replaced many members with his own supporters until he felt strong enough to defeat his fellow members in the Triumvirate, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Once Stalin had secured power for himself within the politburo he complete leader with full power over the USSR..
             Following the October revolution the Bolsheviks gave the old empire from Petrograd and Moscow through Siberia to the Pacific coast a new name, 'The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic'. This vast amount of land contained many national minorities and it was the Soviet's intention to control them from a central position in Moscow. During the civil war various regions outside this central bloc (Armenia, A
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