Stalin approaches the power after the October revolution in 1917 - L'histoire en anglais

Le 7 novembre 1917, les bolcheviks renversent le gouvernement provisoire de Russie et prennent la tête du pays. Dans ce nouveau régime qui s’installe, mené par Lénine, Joseph Djougachvili, dit Staline, prend une place de ministre. Ce ne sera finalement qu’une étape de plus dans son irrésistible ascension au pouvoir.

L'ascension de Staline (texte en anglais)

During the summer of 1917, the bolshevik influence spreads throughout the country thanks to Lenin's slogan "I promise you peace, land and bread". Leon Trotsky, 38 years old, is a brilliant marxist intellectual who has returned from exile in Paris and New York. Nothing about him is proletarian. Everything about him is despised by Stalin. He is a talentuous orator while Stalin is uncomfortable in public. Trotsky is skilled to rally the crowds to the bolshevik cause. To get rid of the bolsheviks, the provisional government launches a wild spread police raid. Eight hundred bolsheviks are arrested including Trotsky. Lenin escaps to Finland. Stalin stays behind and becomes Lenin's messenger and gains in importance.