Because of one man greed and immense desire for power 20 million people perished. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a story about a group of animals who fight and overthrow an alcoholic farmer‚ only to receive a new leader by the name of Napoleon. This new leader worsened the conditions for the animals only to benefit his own personal desires. George Orwell portrays Joseph Stalin as Napoleon the Pig in the book Animal Farm‚ as a power hungry dictator who would kill anyone to retain his power.
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Totalitarian is stated as a political authority widely used to describe the kind of state and society engineered by Joseph Stalin. Historians on Soviet politics recognize the two theories focused on the totalitarian model. Basically‚ there are two totalitarian models- “an operational one that tried to describe the existing Soviet society and a developmental one that focused on the origins of totalitarianism and on the responsibility of Marxism-Leninsism for Stalinism.”1 According to Marxist theory
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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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with death estimates ranging from 50‚000 to 140‚000 under Lenin. The Red Terror did not consist solely of executions either. By 1921‚ Soviet Russia had 84 concentration camps – with that number increasing to 315 only three years later. Thus‚ the Gulag system is a creation of Lenin’s regime. The Red Terror was significant in its effects on the Russian Civil War as well. It amplified the anti-Bolshevik effort‚ as well as increased the atrocities of the civil war. This crackdown on opposition is important
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large and sublime for the stage. Lear has‚ however‚ proved notably successful in the modern theatre‚ accustomed to nonrealistic stage techniques and Samuel Beckett’s apocalyptic dramas as well as to the contemporary horrors of concentration camp and Gulag. - Norton‚ 888 Summary of King Lear ACT I This tragedy play tells of the downfall of King Lear and the death of his daughter Cordelia. The play begins with the old Lear‚ deciding to retire‚ plans to divide his kingdom between his three daughters
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Torturing Prisoners in the War on Terror Is Never Justified "Torturing Prisoners in the War on Terror Is Never Justified."At Issue: How Should the United States Treat Prisoners in the War on Terror?. Lauri S. Friedman. San Diego: Greenhaven Press‚ 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Kenneth Roth‚ "Time to ’Stop Stress and Duress‚’" Washington Post‚ May 13‚ 2004‚ p. A29. Copyright © 2004 by the Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission
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History Russell McGillivray Kenya The British colonization of Kenya destroyed the culture and economy of the native people‚ but it established a democratic government and left Kenya a more modernized country.[1] During the 1880’s through 1914‚ the start of WWI‚ was an age of imperialism. One place that felt victim to this imperialism was Africa. At this time Africa was a wholly unmodernized continent. The reason the Europeans went after Africa was the introduction of the idea of
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7/17/13 Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s Fascist Leader | History Today Wednesday‚ 17 July 2013 | Login / Register Search the archive Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s Fascist Leader By Hugh Purcell (/taxonomy/term/281) | Published in History Today (/taxonomy/term/43) Volume: 60 Issue: 11 (/taxonomy/term/23086) 2010 (/taxonomy/term/14784) Tw eet 71 10 Like 851 (/PRI NT/66186) DECOLONISATION (/TAXONOMY /TERM/22516) 20TH CENTURY (/TAXONOMY
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To what extent were the Purges caused by Stalin’s paranoia? Daniel Johnston Stromness Academy SCN: O62114657 Introduction J.Arch Getty says that “The Great Terror of the 1930s in the Soviet Union was one of the most horrible cases of political violence in modern history”[i] but was this political terror a result of Stalin’s own paranoia or a necessity to maintain control in Soviet Russia? Robert Service argues that “Nowadays‚ virtually all writers accept that he [Stalin] initiated the
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the Soviet Union. Led by a murderous dictator‚ Joseph Stalin‚ the Soviet government was brutal‚ outlawing all opposition‚ banned political parties opposed to the Communist Party‚ murdered millions and set up a vast prison camp system known as the Gulag. In the years 1937-38 alone‚ Stalin ordered the execution of one million citizens of the Soviet Union. In the fifty years of the Cold War‚ the United States only executed two of its own citizens‚ the husband and wife Rosenberg spy team. Even though
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