Industrial production dropped and many skilled workers fled to other countries. The first article explores Lenin and the Russian Revolution, the revolution that put the first communist government in power. He turned to reviving the economy and restructuring the government Period of the power struggle – Stalin defeats both the Left and Right Bolsheviks and outmanoeuvres his chief rival, TrotskyThe collectivisation of the peasantsThe Five-Year Plans, a state-directed attempt to modernise the Sovie