Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1954‚ effectively as a dictator. Within the first ten years of his period of rule‚ Stalin introduced significant change to the Soviet Union in areas of policy such as‚ industrialization‚ agriculture‚ education and culture. Despite the fact that some positive implications were perceived within the nation and soviet society regarding the outcomes of his policies relating to industrialization and education‚ the impact of his policies in the areas
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Lake’s assertion that religious conflict in early Stuart England being the result of a pursuit of traditional conformity by the Puritans holds true to a large extent. It should not‚ however‚ go as far as to proclaim that there was no ‘rise of Arminianism’ as there was indeed an ostensible influx of Arminianism during the reign of Charles I. Arminianism did burgeoned under the policies of Charles I and innovations William Laud took with the Church. However‚ with or without the antagonistic ideological
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Joseph Stalin caused terrible deaths to more than twenty million people. He had a hard childhood that made him seem to have a soul made of steel. After the death of the Soviet Union’s leader‚ Stalin fought hard to gain control of the country. With this‚ he caused a huge famine under his control. Stalin had a contract with Hitler and soon became too trusting. But‚ towards Stalin’s death‚ people thought he was out of his mind. Stalin’s childhood that was full of hardships caused him to become thirsty
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stop at that. But seldom do they consider how genius he must have been to carry out his plan and convince an entire world that what he was doing was necessary‚ or not even happening at all. He ruled Germany with an iron fist‚ using brutal force on whoever made the mistake of trying to retaliate against him‚ and would later cause the death of over 40 million people. Hitler used tactics such as propaganda and speeches to persuade his country that Jews were the root of all evil. He went to the extreme
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Why did Mao rise to power in China? “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. “Mao Zedong clearly referring to the Kuomintang. After a bitter civil war (1946-1949)‚ which faced the major Chinese parties Kuomintang and CCP‚ Kuomintang’s defeat‚ evidenced with Chiang’s and 200.000 people´s fled to Formosa‚ Mao Zedong (1893-1976)‚ born in Shoshan‚ Hunan‚ proclaimed the new People´s Republic of China with himself as both Chairman of the CCP and President of the republic
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Theodore Roosevelt And the Rise of America to World Power By Howard K. Beale Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power was published by John Hopkins University Press in 1956. Beale’s books emphasized and interpreted economic factors during the Reconstruction Era. His scholarly works gained the term “the Beale Thesis”‚ which was based upon Beale’s theory that Reconstruction was the effort of big business to seek control over the federal government for their own gain by eliminating
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Benito Mussolini was an Italian Prime Minister who reigned from 1922 to 1943; his main goals during his reign were to become a dictator who had similar ways and beliefs as other proverbial dictators such as Adolf Hitler and to make Italy a powerful nation in Europe. Italy’s history has been mostly affected by Mussolini and his fascist views which promoted inequality‚ communism‚ imbalance of rights‚ etc. A word which can be used to describe this inequality is dystopia; a dystopian society is a place
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The Czechoslovakian government resisted‚ but its allies Britain and France were determined to avoid war at all costs‚ they were willing to try and negotiate with Hitler. On September 29‚ Hitler met the Prime Minister of Britain Neville of Britain‚ Prime Minister Edouard of France and Prime Minister Benito of Italy to try and reach a final settlement. The Czechoslovakian leaders were not included in the discussion‚ but they were given a choice by Britain and France to accept
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The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini "Fascism‚ the more it considers and observes the future and development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment‚ believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace” (Modern History Sourcebook: Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism‚ 1932). Italy‚ the recently unified country of the 1920s‚ was in a very difficult period of time after the peak of the First World War. Only one leader managed to emerge from this period
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Genocides which killed over a million people‚ including political parties. The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate any challenge from past and potential opposition groups. iIn 1934‚ Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the purge years later‚.I in which millions perished. The NKVD detained 1‚546‚366 people‚ of whome 681‚692 were shot‚ with almost 1‚000 executions a day. {In the new party formation‚ the Politburo and Sstalin in particular.}FRAGMENT
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