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“TROTSKY, A CRITIC OF STALIN’S PLANS, WAS EXPELLED FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN 1927 AND EXILED”
In 1922, under Lenin’s rule, Russia became the dominant constituent part of a new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – the world’s first constitutionally socialist state. It was comprised of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
The civil war had greatly damaged the Russian economy, and this – combined with severe
