1984 and the Establishment of the Soviet Union Catherine M. Ricchiuti Our Lady of Mercy Academy The dystopian 1984 novel written by George Orwell is an example of total government control. Orwell was inspired to write this novel based on the Spanish Revolution. However‚ the ideas illustrated throughout the novel can be juxtaposed with other historical events such as the establishment of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was the totalitarian dictator of Russia and can be equated with Big Brother in
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Political System Transformation in European and Euro-American Societies The Enlightenment is well known to be an important cultural and intellectual movement that revolutionized the lifestyle of several European and Euro-American people during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It brought changes on the scientific‚ economic‚ and religious field. However‚ the field that resulted mainly affected by the Enlightenment was the political realm. Many important European philosophers like Thomas
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Why did the Soviet Union intervene in Hungary and not Poland in 1956? ‘Given the growing sense of national euphoria sweeping eastern Europe in 1955-1956‚ a full-scale decolonisation of the Soviet Empire was not considered beyond the bounds of geopolitical possibility’. The decision of the Soviet Union to invade Hungary in 1956‚ whilst acknowledging the need to control events in Poland‚ came about through a myriad of complex reasons as well as the collapse of the old Hegemony‚ following Krushchev’s
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a state of political and military tensions after WW2 between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. They called it the cold war because there was no long scale fighting directly between the two sides‚ as well as the weather conditions being very cold and ruff. The Soviets can be blamed and most responsible for the Cold War. Most of the responsibility for the war went towards the Soviet Union because of their aggressive actions in the Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union was largely
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During the 1930’s the birth of media and technology‚ such as movies and the radio‚ gave way to a surge of propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This new technology made it easier for dictators or governments to get their messages to the public. Propaganda was mainly used to brain wash a country into believing in the leaders ideologies and was also used to disguise the shortcomings of the government. Propaganda was a very important thing to Hitler because he believed the only reason
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and Soviet Union after World War two. Suspicion and mistrust had defined the US and the Soviet Union relations for decades. Although Cold War was called a “war”‚ it didn’t really use weapons to fight with each other. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in supporting allied nations‚ which had violent wars‚ like Korea‚ Vietnam‚ and Angola. The most important underlying causes were the ideology and economic. The USA and the Soviet Union represented
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to include women. It was not until 1903 when Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Woman’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She founded this group having been a member of the Suffragists. She became frustrated with the Suffragists’ tactics‚ especially their middle class and gradualist ideas. The motto of the Suffragettes was "Deeds‚ not Words" and this was reflected in everything they did. In this essay I will loom at weather the WSPU helped or hinders women’s quest to gain the vote in Britain. The
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The economy of the Soviet Union was based on a system of state ownership of the means of production‚ collective farming‚ industrial manufacturing and centralized administrative planning. Starting in 1924‚ with Stalin rising to power‚ the period of the centralized economy made the central government of Russia formulate all economic decisions. The command economy was one of the key features of the Soviet society‚ however‚ it came with benefits and setbacks. For example‚ an advantage would be low levels
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relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued to deteriorate for 40 years. During this time tensions between The U.S and its NATO allies and the soviet union grew along with dooming pressures of nuclear war. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism while the U.S. fought against their political ideology. The Soviet Union was more responsible for causing this cold war. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed by the U.S.‚ Canada‚ and ten nations of Western Europe in 1948. According to the excerpt
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relationship of these two countries leading up to the war was very different on both sides. Hitler hated the Soviet Union thinking of it as Jewish led country trying to destroy Nazi Germany. Stalin acted with great paranoia when dealing with the Nazis he trusted them‚ while Hitler on other hand was scheming to destroy them. In 1939 the two countries signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact or the Soviet and German nonaggression pact. This would guarantee peace for the next 10 years and the exchange of manufactured
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