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The paper advances the proposition that the Russian Revolution truly began in 1917 and that Stalin's reign of terror from 1928 onwards, while it might have taken Russia further away from Marxist-Leninist principles and placed the nation under the shadow of a new and even more virulent form of dictatorship, was merely a continuation of what Lenin had wrought in the first place.

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"Officially, history records 1917 as being the year wherein the Russian Revolution took place. This was the year as most are well aware that Lenin's Bolshevik forces overthrew the tsarist regime and claimed the Eastern European giant for their own; it was also the year wherein Russia took the final precipitous steps towards the totalitarian communist society which would do so much lasting harm to the Russian people and to Russian society."

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