Cold War is indirect conflict between the two super powers that is the United States and the Soviet Union. When World War II ended in 1945‚ Soviet troops occupied countries like Czechoslovakia‚ Poland‚ Romania‚ and others. America‚ British‚ and French occupied the western half‚ while the Soviet occupied the eastern half of Germany. The Soviet Union wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Marxist lines and being a communist country‚ while the U.S. wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Democratic Capitalist
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The moment Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union’s leader was the beginning of the end for the Cold War. Appointed in 1985‚ Gorbachev was left with a broken nation‚ whose people had little freedom to voice their beliefs without facing repercussions from the communist society that was so ingrained in the Soviet at that time. Faced with economical problems along with the current government’s poor treatment of the people‚ Gorbachev knew he need to ameliorate his degrading and suppressed nation.
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee. After Lenin’s death‚ he became the second leader of the Soviet Union. He was always Supporting Lenin and the Bolshevik system‚ even before the Bolshevik revolution. The political Communist of the Soviet Union was Marxism–Leninism which depends on the theories of Marxism and Leninism. The term Marxism–Leninism was called by Stalin. When Stalin became the leader of Soviet Union‚ he wanted to follow the Marxism and Leninism
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The ‘Space Race’ was an unofficial competition between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the focus of which was space exploration. It began after World War II‚ in the mid-1950s‚ when Russia launched a satellite into space. After this‚ the race was on between America and Russia to gain as much ground in space as possible. The Space Race began in 1955‚ when both the United States and the Soviet Union announced they would be launching artificial satellites into space. Russia took the announcement
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The causes of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were that it had no popular support‚ political downfall‚ and economic problems. The fact that the USSR had gained all of its money from the Eastern European states (after world war 2)‚ Stalin’s paranoia of the West forced him to put all that money into defensive arms and therefore none of that money was being channeled into the country. Many historians would argue that it was at this point that the USSR began its downward spiral and this is
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Stalin wanted to carry out the economic policies to turn the Soviet Union in to a modern world power meaning a self-sufficient state and military strong socialist state. Stalin wanted to show that supremacy of communism over capitalist nations. To add to that‚ Stalin wanted to fix the living standards of all Soviet citizens. Stalin wanted to feed the population‚ but in order to that‚ he wanted or needed the soviet agricultural sector of the economy to be more prominent. Stalin waned to increase
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Two of the most well known economic events overt the last decade are the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and the emergence of the market economy in China. They both changed for the citizens.but they differed in the form of government they wished to achieve and the reasons why their governments failed and needed to change . China changed to do something about the poor of their country‚ while Russia was more focused on their upper working classes. Strikes and food riots broke out in Russia
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Both the movement of Soviet montage and French New wave can be considered to be reaction to which involved young artists that were intricately connected to society. With reference to two films‚ which are The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein‚ Russia‚ 1925) and Breathless (Jean Luc Goddard‚ France‚ 1960)‚ this essay will attempt to examine how social and political upheaval which Soviet Union was enduring result in its aesthetic approaches‚ and technical aspects of Soviet Montage cinema and how
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To what extent was the Cuban missile crisis a factor in Nikita Khrushchev being deposed as leader of the Soviet Union? 1018-133 HL Contemporary History Word Count: 1978 Table of Contents Criterion A: Plan of Investigation pg. 3 Criterion B: Summary of Evidence pg.4-5 Criterion C: Evaluation of Sources
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not necessarily a good thing as the prosperity promoted Russia as an asset to neighbouring countries during the war. The defeat of the Germans in World War II resulted in Russia being seen‚ as one of the leading world powers was one example of the Soviet Union’s success in industrialisation. Industrialisation was not a complete disaster‚ however‚ as Russia caught up many years to the principal powers. It was absolutely catastrophic concerning the people of Russia‚ as they had to work endlessly under
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