torture and oppression conducted by the Cheka under orders of the Bolsheviks. This force meant that Lenin could assert his physical authority over the people and counter any opposition. To supplement the secret police‚ Lenin also established a system of Gulags and Labour
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Terror in Russia in 1936. The Great Terror was known as ’Yezhovshchina’ in Russia‚ the time of Yezhov‚ who was head of the NKVD in 1936. The Terror fell into four main parts: The Moscow Show Trials‚ 1936-1938 The Army Purge 1937 The Mass Purge The Gulag The first part of the Great Terror‚ the Moscow Show Trials‚ involved three main trials; The Zinoviev trial in 1936‚ The Trotskyite trial in 1937 and The Bukharin trial in 1938. All who were included in these trials had to confess to a number of things
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just arrested people. Stalin killed millions‚ sending many more (about 14 million) to his ‘Gulags’‚ or concentration camps. In a time of Soviet socialism‚ Stalin created a secret police force called the OGPU to surveil the population and make sure no one went against his ideas. Stalin’s Gulags were used to control those Stalin saw as a threat to his regime‚ Shearer explains the masses of people sent to Gulags saying “Hundreds of thousands were deported or interned in camps and penal settlements. In
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Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1928 and became Lenin’s successor. Stalin was a dictator but with his leadership he developed Russia from a backward country to a world superpower. Stalin had many triumphs during his leadership and brought both good and bad long lasting effects to Russia. Joseph Stalin’s aims were to make Russia an industrial and military superpower‚ and this was a time of clarity and strength for his followers. Therefore‚ he was also responsible for 20 million
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The year is 1917 and the Russian Revolution had just taken place the Czars were overthrown and the Communist party takes over. At this time‚ it puts into power Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin is the leader of the Communist party creating the USSR. When Lenin dies in 1924 Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky are fighting for power Stalin spreads lies about Trotsky causing him to flee to Moscow‚ thus giving Stalin control of the USSR in the year 1929. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell shows in an allegory
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by Joseph Stalin‚ which lasted from the 1920’s to the 1953.(DeSomma‚ 12) During the time of Stalin’s ruling the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)‚ a secret police force‚ murdered many soviet citizens and jailed many others to Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps that people were sent to if they were seen dangerous to the union. The Soviet then destroyed all owned farms to be replaced by state owned farms‚ this caused the Holomodor (1932- 1933). The Holomodor was a man made famine
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Stalin more so portrayed elements of conservatism. Stalin’s social‚ economic‚ and political policies and actions that conserved parts of Lenin’s regime including the NKVD secret police that executed and exiled opposition to Stalin‚ slave labor in Gulag camps‚ the Great Purge which removed many members of the Communist Party and Red Army‚ and the continuation of Lenin’s New Economic Policy were more important than his progressive changes because they influenced his government the most. Stalin’s most
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permission granted‚ Captain.” “Mashber in Hebrew means moment of birth. In our case‚ redemption. During World War III‚ when we liberated the communist gulags and hard labor camp‚ many were Jewish or Christian. And they renamed the liberation period as the Mashber period.” “Bien hecho. Well done‚ Captain Torrez‚” Admiral Sanchez said. “We have but one last gulag to free‚ soldier‚” he said to me.
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The purges was an historical event which took place in Russia from 1936 to 1938‚ with Stalin as the mastermind behind it. Firstly I will be talking about the three causes that led to the event; stopping the reading of Lenin’s will‚ Stalin’s need to get rid of individual threats to his power and also his need to weaken key groups in the USSR through the use of his terror tactics. Secondly I will be talking about Stalin’s paranoia and what happened during the purges. Lastly I will be talking about
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Michael Mulholland‚ Hunter Mikson‚ Avery Fields Mrs. Schrimsher AICE International History Period 7 16 December 2014 Josef Stalin: A Totalitarian Tyrant Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin‚ notoriously known as one of the most ruthless and inhumane tyrants‚ startlingly was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to end Second World War. Yet Stalin was not flaccid in his rise to power from an irrelevant position to the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1941-1953. Joseph Stalin is ubiquitously
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