on whether the Soviet Union knew what it what it wanted all along or whether outside factors influenced the progression from the anti-fascist democratic revolutions to the creation of monolithic‚ socialist states. However‚ it is uncontestable that Stalin was the force directing the transformation of the Eastern
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two totalitarian regimes differed from each other in economic and social aspects. (1) Economic Institution The USSR - Collectivization The Five Year Plan started under Lenin and continued by Stalin which enabled the USSR to develop economically but at a great cost to the Soviet people. Indeed‚ Stalin strengthened the state’s existing dominance: legal private entreprise above the level of highly-restricted individual production and commerce practically ceased. However‚ the Five Year Plans for
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Allied power. The Allied occupation of Germany affects us today because it led to another war- the Cold War. After World War II‚ there were many disagreement between Stalin (the Soviet Union)‚ Churchill (England)‚ and Roosevelt (the United States of America). One of the major disagreement was about Germany future government. Stalin wanted to
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Explain why Trotsky did not become the leader of the USSR After Lenin’s death in 1924 the Bolsheviks (although not out rightly stated) were in need of a new leader. The power struggle occurred from 1923-1929 and eventually Stalin effectively became the leader of the USSR due to many reasons‚ including the weaknesses of Trotsky. Trotsky had not been a Bolshevik initially – he converted from the Menshevik party in 1917. Therefore some of the party members doubted him as 100% trustworthy. Within
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Soviet Union responsible for the division of Germany from 1945 to 1949? Post-war Germany found itself in the middle of international tensions after its division – between the Allied powers of Britain‚ France and the USA and the Soviet Union under Stalin. However‚ the German nation that hoped for a new beginning could not do so due to the distribution of her land between the victors of the Second World War‚ and historians have since debated over who was to blame for this occurring. It is clear that
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animalism is communism. Mr. Jones the farmer‚ symbolizes Csar. The story stands for the Russian revolution. All of the events correspond with things that happened before the rise of Stalin to supreme power. The characters in the novel stand for significant figures in twentieth-century Russian history. Napoleon stands for Josef Stalin the ruthless dictator who eliminated his close friend and associate Leon Trotsky. Snowball who is forced to flee "Animal Farm" represents Trotsky who had to flee Russia. Also
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for the red army as that is claimed to help them gain victory. Lend lease was down played by Stalin at the end of the war and wasn’t given much significance. The USSR was producing most of its own tanks and aircraft which were more effective than the tanks that were built in the west. The USSR was pretty efficient in fighting the war and as Stalin had put measures into place to ensure the survival. Stalin had made sure that there was a strong focus on heavy industry. This meant changing all the domestic
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Terror in Stalin’s Russia. Terror played a very important and large role in Stalin’s Russia. Stalin used many different methods of terror during his reign such as a period of unprecedented cruelty called The Purges. Stalin was extremely suspicious of his opposition and used terror to remove any threat to his power and to blame his failures on people who weren’t responsible for them. Stalin used the purges as a way of removing any threat to his power and to enforce total control. The event that
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were under pressure on the Eastern front and Stalin asked Churchill and Eisenhower to help the USSR by opening up a Western front in continental Europe‚ to prevent Hitler from throwing all the might of his armies against the Soviets. As a result‚ a series of major raids against German defence installations along the Channel was planned but only one such operation was actually conducted: Dieppe. This turned into a military disaster. But it did pacify Stalin by demonstrating that the western Allies weren’t
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commander S. P. Kolosov whose final fate is unknown expressed it in an anything but timid letter in 1937: "I am afraid to open my mouth. Whatever you say‚ if you say the wrong thing‚ you’re an enemy of the people. Cowardice has become the norm." Stalin had won the struggle for power and was now dealing death blows to the opposition by organising uncontrolled terror at every level of society. The purges carried out within the party‚ the army‚ among members of the scientific community‚ artists and
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