Complex sentence: In the mining town of Chiatura, both Stalin and the Mensheviks competed for the support of the miners; they chose Stalin, preferring his plain and concise manner of speaking to the flamboyant oratory of the Menshevik speaker.
Split into simpler sentences: In the mining town of Chiatura, both Stalin and the Mensheviks competed for the support of the miners. They chose Stalin, preferring his plain and concise manner of speaking to the flamboyant oratory of the Menshevik speaker.