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    Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was a powerful Communist leader in the early years of the Soviet Union. Stalin was a dictator leader who terrorized the Russian citizens and sent many people to prisons and labour camps. Born into poverty‚ Stalin became involved into revolutionary politics‚ as well as criminal activities as a young man. After leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) died‚ Stalin outmanoeuvred his rivals in the party to oversee the party. Forcing rapid industrialization of Russia and collectivization

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    with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union that pushes all their allies away. Although Soviet Union had used the slogan of liberate the world to support many natives of the western colony to fight for freedom and it works very well‚ but the soviet union never takes her allies as her allies‚

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    Just a mere year after it has taken France and its lower countries‚ Adolf Hitler and his military began planning the invasion to take the Soviet Union. Naming the operation‚ Operation Barbarossa‚ Germany began envisaging its actions to cease the Soviet Union with its rich resources. Although a non-aggression agreement was signed between the two countries‚ Hitler did not pay heed to the agreement‚ he was instead very much caught up with the fact that he is in control of the most parts of Europe and that

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    Since the fall of the Soviet Union‚ Europe faced many political changes that impacted the continent tremendously. Among these changes were globalization‚ the rise of the technology‚ and terrorism. Globalization impacted Europe by allowing further interdependence of cultural and economic activities. New technology made things more efficient and caused the continent to prosper in wealth and success. Terrorism on the other hand‚ only caused the spread of fear and violence throughout the land. The

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    Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? Roxanne C. Jones Politics 300‚ Section 003016 Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? ‘Do you think you are going to win?’ ‘Yes‚ yes of course.’ ‘What makes you think so? What makes you think you are going to win?’ ‘I believe we are going to win. It’s evident!’ (Panjshairi commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in an interview from the French prize-winning documentary film ‘Valley against an Empire’ by Jerome Bony and Christophe de Ponfilly

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    | The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | | The world’s most powerful Communist country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or otherwise known as the Soviet Union. It contained 15 republics that were controlled by a central government. Over time‚ it developed into a large industrial power that dictated all aspects of the national economy. It set levels of wages and prices‚ controlled the allocation of resources‚ and decided what would be produced and how and where goods would

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    Did the Bolshevik Revolution Improve the Lives of the Soviet Women? Introduction This argumentative paper presents clashing views on controversial issues in Western Civilization. The particular issue under consideration is the Bolshevik Revolution. Two authors‚ Richard Stites‚ and Françoise Navailh argue out the issue; Stites argues that the Bolshevik Revolution improved the lives of Soviet women while Navailh’s argument suggests otherwise. In summary‚ Stites attributes women emancipation to the

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    ------------------------------------------------- (Part Six and Part Seven—from Chapter 29 to Chapter 34) Chapter 29 and Chapter 30 The period around World War I‚ 1890s-1920s Essay Question 1: How and why did events in overseas empires from the 1890s on challenge Western faith in imperialism? How were colonial dominations increasingly challenged? The Russian Bolshevik Revolution leader Lenin argued that World War I was the result of insolvable competitions among imperialist powers. What are

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    RUSSIA  &  THE  SOVIET  UNION  1917-­1941     TIMELINE   1917  -­‐  Bolshevik  or  ‘October’  Revolution   1917  -­‐  Treaty  of  Brest-­‐Litovsk  signed   1918  -­‐  Start  of  the  Civil  War.  ‘War  Communism’  introduced   1919  -­‐  Formation  of  ‘Comintern’     1921  -­‐  End  of  Civil  War.  Kronstadt  uprising.  Introduction  of  the  ‘NEP’.  

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    the soviet peoples lives to be changed in many circumstances that were not as they would have hoped. Life in the Soviet Union was harsh and firm on almost all of the population of the large country known as the Soviet Union. Stalin was pushing his five-year plan with a hard iron fist. Even with ruling of the iron fist people of Soviet Union bought more and more into the plan of Stalin. Stalin to the soviets was a god he could do know wrong and although the purges cause many in the Soviet Union heartache

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