"Compare and contrast the internal policies of Mussolini and Stalin." Mussolini and Stalin were two of the most significant dictators of the 20th century. Both aimed to establish a totalitarian system but their different characters and circumstances in their respective countries resulted in two very different approaches in obtaining their goals. At the beginning of Mussolini ’s era‚ Mussolini was supported by the Liberals in parliament. With their help he introduced strict censorship and altered
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fighting force; though‚ because of the actions and plans laid out by Stalin‚ the USSR was able to overcome and triumph over the technologically advanced nation. Along with the creation of the new state‚ new leaders and statesmen emerged from the great cauldron known as the Communist party‚ some of these included Lenin‚ Trotsky‚ and Stalin. Although there were many great leaders of the nation‚ this paper will consist of Stalin and what his impact on the Soviet Union was‚ as a result of the NEP and
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The Ggreat Terror‚ or also known as the Great Purge‚ was one of the few 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
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1894-1953 ACCOUNT FOR STALIN ’S RISE TO POWER IN THE PERIOD 1922 TO 1929 INTRODUCTION Stalin ’s ascent to the leadership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was neither easy nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent. Among such company Stalin - the bureaucrat from
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Throughout history‚ the role of Joseph Stalin on Russia’s success has always been questioned upon. This role can be show through the many positive and negative aspects of his reign. The positive side included the strengthening of Russia’s military but the negative side‚ at the expense of his countries people. If we were to look at Stalin’s accomplishment‚ we could see that there was a majority of positive achievements over negative ones. Of the many accomplishments‚ the most prominent one is Stalin’s
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Hitler and Stalin Throughout American History there have been many powerful dictators. Two men that stand out very distinctly are Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. These two men from two different places‚ from two different families‚ who grew up two different ways‚ turned out to be the same. Hitler and Stalin both rose to the highest attainable position in their country. Hitler’s ideology was Nazi based‚ or National Socialistic. Natzism is an ideology that recieved its practical political form
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After the Russian Revolution concluded‚ Joseph Stalin‚ Russian dictator‚ led to power in the Soviet Union. Stalin was a dictator‚ imposing brutal and horrific policies which killed millions of his citizens. He implemented a series of five-year plans‚ which rapidly increased the economic growth of the Soviet Union. It focused on industrialization and agriculture. According to History.com‚ it states “Stalin implemented a series of Five-Year Plans to spur economic growth and transformation in the Soviet
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History Essay: Why Stalin Not Trotsky Stalin’s race to become the all mighty ruler fully started after Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. With Lenin gone‚ Stalin started to eliminate the other members of the Communist Party: Trotsky‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev‚ Rykov‚ Tomsky and Bukharin. He very cleverly switched between the left wing and the right wing‚ by making alliances with one wing the suddenly breaking with them‚ only to join the other wing‚ going against everything that they had
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1928 until his death in 1953. His use of terror to help the Soviet economy grow is today viewed by most historians as a brutal period in Russian history. However in today’s Russia the view of Stalin is actually very mixed. Surveys regularly show that only forty percent of Russians would absolutely not vote for Stalin if he were alive today. This is despite the fact that the Stalinist regime was responsible for the deaths of millions of people both in Russia
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Throughout the reign of Stalin he was able to establish himself as a successful dictator through totalitarian rule. He became the undisputed leader of the USSR and the factors that enabled him to do so were Industrialisation‚ his social policies and his ability to defeat Hitler in World War Two. However‚ through Stalin’s political career he also encountered many failures. These were Collectivism‚ the purges and the terror he caused by the people living in Russia during his reign. Stalin’s
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