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During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of Bolshevism, not against party members themselves. The first victims were Politburo members Leon Trotskii, Grigorii Zinov'ev, and Lev Kamenev, who were defeated and expelled from the party in late 1927. Stalin then turned against Nikolai Bukharin, who was denounced as a “right opposition,” for opposing his policy of forced collectivization and rapid industrialization at the expense of the peasantry.
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The empire had become too unwieldy to rule by a single emperor. ... The split of the empire allowed the eastern half of the empire to endure for 1000 more years, in part because this region was already more prosperous and better held together. The borders on the Western Empire were far more porous than those on the East.
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