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Duma
Lower house of Russian Parliament 1906 - 1917
Five points in Lenin's "April Theses"
1.Overthrow / no co-operation w/ provisional government
2.Abolition of police; army and state bureaucracy
3.End Russian participation in WWI
4.Give land to peasants
5.No parliamentary democracy. Workers' 'soviets'
Lenin's position on the Russian Provisional Government
Opposed as 'bourgoise'
Why was Stalin offered the position of Secretary of the Communist Party?
Prominent Bolsheviks had rejected it
Following Stalin, who was the next premier of the U.S.S.R.?
Malenkov
Stalin died in 1953, leaving a sort of power vacuum. The group close to the center of power began by having Lavrenti Beria, the much feared head of the secret police since 1939 and would-be successor, shot. Georgi M. Malenkov became the leader for a period, while Krushchev was the leader of the Communist Party. Krushchev actually became premier following Bulganin. So the proper order is Stalin, Malenkov, Bulganin, then Krushchev in 1958.
What year did the Soviet Union collapse?
1991
On February 7, 1990 the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly of power. Throughout the rest of 1990 satellite states pulled out of the Union (Estonia and Lithuania). On August 20, 1991, the republics of the Soviet Union were to sign a new union treaty, making them independent republics in a federation with a common president, foreign policy and military. In November of 1991, Yeltsin banned the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On December 9, 1991, the leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian republics declared that the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced by the "Commonwealth of Independent States".
Who ruled the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953?
Stalin
After Lenin's death in 1924 there was a power struggle in the leadership of the Soviet Union. Stalin became the dictator of the USSR by 1928 at the latest. Brezhnev and Krushchev were not on the political scene at that point. Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1927 by Stalin. By 1928 Stalin was firmly in control and at the very beginning of 1929 he ordered that the five-year plan was to be completed one year early.