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Article: SIDE LIGHTS.(Soviet Union history)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 10, 1999
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* Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! How often Vladimir Lenin hoped that these words of Karl Marx would be heeded by the workers of Russia. On Nov. 6, 1917, Lenin and his supporters began the world's first communist revolution. In a matter of months, Lenin and his communists had taken over Russia, making it the world's first communist nation.
* Lenin was succeeded by Stalin, a ruthless dictator, who ruled the Soviet Union for 25 years. Under Stalin's brutal rule, the Soviet Union became a military superpower and challenged the United States all over the world. Despite his brutality, Stalin today is revered by some Russians ...