Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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The Breakdown of the Wartime Alliance The Breakdown of the wartime alliance Although allies‚ cracks were already appearing in the Soviet-American alliance by 1945. Stalin was particularly suspicious of Britain’s policy before the war of appeasement‚ which he thought aimed secretly to encourage Hitler to attack Russia. He was also unhappy with the US/British failure to open up a second front in Europe before June 1944
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Primary Source for 04/28/2010‚ Joseph Stalin: Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924. In 1928 Stalin began the First Five-Year Plan‚ an ambitious attempt to quickly modernize the Soviet economy. In the speech below‚ given in 1933 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party‚ Stalin explained the goals and results of the Five-Year Plan. The fundamental task of the Five-Year Plan was to convert the U.S.S.R. from an agrarian and weak country‚ dependent
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“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That’s a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in.” ― Robert Conquest[->0] According to the historian Robert Conquest‚ Joseph Stalin "gives the impression of a large and crude claylike figure‚ a golem‚ into which a demonic spark has been instilled." He was nonetheless "a man who perhaps more than any other determined the course of the twentieth century." "Any adult
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In 1928‚ Joseph Stalin became one of the world’s most contentious leaders. During the period that Stalin was in control of mother Russia‚ he transformed the Soviet Union into a modern super power. He used certain methods to change Russia. He did this by modernizing the Russian economy with his Five Year Plans. He also increased industrial and agricultural production with his policy of collectivization. He carried out purges or the harsh movements against his enemies to make sure he kept total control
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-Body Paragraph (repeat as necessary‚ BE REALISTIC) What they built Topic Sentence: Prisoners in the labor camps slaved away at construction for the Soviet Union and built a majority of their economic infrastructure. Position: - The prisoners who lived in the Gulag produced mass amounts of railroads to canals working day after day with no stop. Evidence: “Gulag prisoners constructed the White Sea-Baltic Canal‚ the Moscow-Volga Canal‚ the Baikal-Amur main railroad line‚ numerous hydroelectric stations
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Sheila Fitzpatrick gives the real accounts of life under the control of Joseph Stalin. Fitzpatrick states her claim as to how Stalin remained in power for over twenty-five years by using methods of oppression and by implementing modernity. One of the main reasons that Stalin stayed in power was by implementing modernity into a society that had previously been stuck in a traditionalized environment. Fitzpatrick describes how Stalin changed peoples lives in the Soviet Union by advancing there means of
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived in the USSR regime‚ and fought in World War II. In 1945‚ however‚ he was arrested due to some letters he had written to a friend. As Ivan mentions on the book‚ these are checked‚ and he had criticized Joseph Stalin‚ which resulted to years in prisons and labour camps‚ plus three years of exile. In the novel‚ it is clear that he is more than simply telling Shukhov’s tale‚ he is recounting his own experiences and exposing the truth to the world. In 1956‚ when Solzhenitsyn
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exploiting their disadvantages for the good of themselves. In this novel this person was Napoleon and he took advantage of the dumber‚ working class animals on the farm by instructing them to build the windmill whilst he did nothing‚ much like Joseph Stalin who also took advantage of the different classes. I also really admired the some of the characters such as Boxer who was all brawn and no brain. I took a liking to him because he did so much for his community‚ however‚ I also felt sorry for him
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While the Soviets assumed control of parts of German and Berlin and cut of American‚ British‚ and French access to Berlin and Germany in both road and railroads‚ America came up with an eleven month airlift to provide food and fuel to these zones‚ Stalin then lifted the blockade which was a huge victory to the Truman administration. The soviets then caused a huge stir when they tested their first atomic bomb in 1949. The U.S.‚ Canada‚ and ten other western European nations came together and created
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