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==Rise of Stalin and Collapse==

==Rise of Stalin and Collapse==

Upon Lenin's death, a power struggle insued between Leon Trotsky and [[Joseph Stalin]], two influential officials during Lenin's tenure.  Stalin eventually gained the upper hand in the fight, and ostracized [[Trotsky]] to [[Mexico]].  Stalin was instrumental in creating the Soviet Empire.  The USSR became infamous for Joseph Stalin's violations of human rights during the Great Purge, in which he disposed of all followers of Lenin and Trotsky.  The Soviet Union eventually imploded after a series of economic and political reforms known as [[Glasnost]] introduced by the last Chairman of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU), [[Mikhail Gorbachyov]] in the 1980s.  The USSR was formally dissipated in 1991 by [[Boris Yeltsin]].

Upon Lenin's death, a power struggle insued between Leon Trotsky and [[Joseph Stalin]], two influential officials during Lenin's tenure.  Stalin eventually gained the upper hand in the fight, and ostracized [[Trotsky]] to [[Mexico]].  Stalin was instrumental in creating the Soviet Empire.  The USSR became infamous for Joseph Stalin's violations of human rights during the Great Purge, in which he disposed of all followers of Lenin and Trotsky.  The Soviet Union eventually imploded after a series of economic and political reforms known as [[Glasnost]] introduced by the last Chairman of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU), [[Mikhail Gorbachyov]] in the 1980s.  The USSR was formally dissolved in 1991 by [[Boris Yeltsin]].

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