Marriage as an institution did not at first win the favour of all Bolsheviks. During the 1920s the Soviet government had tried to weaken the family as a unit of society because it believed it exploited women. Government propaganda‚ as early as the 1920’s emphasised the role of woman workers as well as homemakers. Wedding rings were abolished. Abortion became available on demand. Marriages were performed in brief ceremonies only in register offices. Divorce could be obtained simply by one partner
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The Five Year Plans SUCCESSES FAILURES The improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes. Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes. Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes. Electricity - from 5‚000 million to 36‚000 million kilowatts. Poorly organised – inefficiency‚ duplication of effort and waste. The Soviet Union gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors
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George Orwell‚ The events and people involved in George Orwell’s Animal Farm are in direct relation to the events and people involved in Stalinist Russia. This is through the means of satire. The fable creates an allegory in its representation of key motives‚ personalities‚ and life during and eventually after the Russian Revolution. The most notable spark for the Russian Revolution was discontent in the working classes. These people made up the majority of the population‚ but were almost totally
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Collectivisation is a great example of this total control that Stalin held over Russia‚ the fact he could take all of the farms and merge them together into one big farm to create more produce which was then sold or traded showed significance in comparison to totalitarianism because it showed that there was complete control over what happened all over Russia. As well as collectivisation Stalin also used terror to create a totalitarian state. The great Terror from 1936-38 is a great example of how a totalitarian
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Plan of investigation This investigation seeks to evaluate the extend of the success of Stalin’s collectivization in Russia during 1928 and 1940.Collectivization was one of the most important economic policies introduced in Russia because it can be described and evaluated from different angles‚ economic growth on the one hand‚and the social cost of the policy‚on the other. The main body of this investigation outlines Stalin’s aims‚ when and how the policy was implemented and whether it was a successful
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than Hitler’s.”‚ which unbelievably is true. The horror of the crimes Joseph Stalin committed against his own people is appalling. For example‚ Stalin’s plan for collectivization resulted in the death of twenty million people. The great five-year plan to turn the peasant farmers into one‚ huge farming community brought on famine‚ starvation and eventually death to twenty million peasant farmers. Another atrocity that Stalin was responsible for was the forced labor camps known as Gulags
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one careless word or gesture and he would fly off irrevocably into the abyss." (The Gulag Archipelago‚ vol. 2‚ p "Fear by night‚ and a feverish effort by day to pretend enthusiasm for a system of lies‚ was the permanent condition." (Conquest‚ The Great Terror: A Reassessment‚ "According to some reports‚ entire groups of men were taken in one swoop by the NKVD. ’Almost all the male inhabitants of the little Greek community where I lived [in the lower Ukraine] had been arrested‚’ recalled one
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The novel Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it’s members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition‚ I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin’ s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts‚ their rise to power‚ Stalin’s Five Year Plan‚ and their use and abuse of authority. <br> <br>When Lenin
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After Vladimir Lenin died in 1924‚ Joseph Stalin was able to outcompete his rivals and become dictator of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1929‚ Stalin began his rule through the creation of a series of five-year plans‚ during which he attempted to jump start industrialization in the Soviet Union and take control of the peasant-run agriculture through forced government collectivization. Though Stalin was faced with backlash from millions of farmers‚ he did not budge; anyone who opposed
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rival’s weaknesses such as Trotsky who was considered likely successor to Lenin‚ but Trotsky lacked the will for a political fight. However you just can’t become the leader of Russia just from good luck‚ Stalin used his ability to place himself in a great position within the party. This essay is going to look at the ways in which Stalin rose to power through personal appeal and ability such as ability to take advantages in situations‚ removing his rivals from potential power and the use of propaganda
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