While Stalin's grandiose power accumulation and not so pure intentions are left out of history books. The soul blame can be surly with out doubt, be placed on the Petrograd Soviet. It is true the Provisional Government was a temporary government that did little to aid the people of Russia, however they could not do anything with the Petrograd Soviet restricting their actions. The true culprits who put chains on the people of Russia is not Stalin nor Lenin; rather the Petrograd Soviet that set the entire nation on a path of Stalinism and mass death.
