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"We shall now proceed to build, on the space cleared of historical rubbish, the airy, towering edifice of socialist society" Lenin, 8th November 1917 In order to understand the evolution of the USSR and Stalin’s rise to power, it is necessary to first of all understand Karl Marx's theory of socialism and how the Bolshevik government attempted to follow this conception Marxism explains that the key to the development of every society is the development of the productive forces: labor power, industry, agriculture, technique and science. The socialist rulers developed these statements and applied them in Russia. Totalitarian leaders in Russia imposed a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed. It all started with Lenin, which led to Stalin. The protests exposed massive discontent in Soviet society, particularly over the national question, the right of self-determination. When the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, they had an extremely advanced, sensitive approach, granting the right of self-determination to Finland and Estonia.
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