A totalitarian state‚ is a where the central government of a state does not tolerate any parties with opposing views and exercises complete dictatorial rule over all or most aspects of life. Lenin‚ the leader of the Bolsheviks‚ took many measures in an attempt to create a totalitarian state‚ including the dissolution of Constituent Assembly‚ the use of decrees and the establishment of a secret police group called the Cheka. However there were also some ways in which he failed to achieve full totalitarianism
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territory Lebensraum (living space for the German people) Hitler withdrew Germany from World Disarmament Conference and from the League of Nations. He explained it by saying that France did not agree to Germany having equal armaments. Mussolini and Italy: rivalry with France worried about the Brenner Pass friendly towards Greece‚ Hungary‚ and Albania → signed economic and defense agreements → Albania virtually controlled by Italy supported Britain‚ who rewarded Italy with
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Source A: Lenin was a great leader yet the most humble of men. For his achievements in the October revolution‚ in defending the foreign invaders and destroying the whites‚ in bringing peace and prosperity‚ we are forever in his debt. (A Russian view of Lenin written at the same time of his death in 1924) Was this an accurate assessment of Lenin and his achievements? One man with a gun can control 100 without one." Lenin‚ Vladimir Ilich 1917 Lenin was a man with principles that tried his best
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Throughout history human rights have been a very controversial subject. For as long as society has been alive there has always been a fight for basic human rights and equality. With tactics ranging from peaceful mass protests to people being brutally murdered to prove a point. One of the most nonviolent‚ successful human rights defenders was the very famous Martin Luther King Jr. Born Michael Luther King Jr. in Atlanta‚ Georgia on January 15‚ 1929. The middle child of three he was born into a very
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tortured‚ castrated and humiliated after having tried and failed to secure a stronger Italian position within Africa by conquering Abyssinia; was by trying to maintain placated relations between Britain and Italy‚ so as not to antagonise Benito Mussolini (Leader of the National Fascist Party‚ ruling Italy as prime minister from 1922)‚ threatening the safety of Britain. An example of this is how‚ despite what was thought to be a more effective solution in solving the crisis‚ it was agreed that the
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April Theses‚ Russian Aprelskiye Tezisy‚ in Russian history‚ program developed by Lenin during theRussian Revolution of 1917‚ calling for Soviet control of state power; the theses‚ published in April 1917‚ contributed to the July Days uprising and also to the Bolshevik coup d’etat in October 1917. During the February Revolution two disparate bodies had replaced the imperial government—theProvisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The Socialists who dominated
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however these next three articles prove that there is a line and there is no gray space. People are either one side or the other‚ there is no in between‚ the goals and secular leading may be the same but the inner workings differ by a lot‚ Krupskaya‚ Mussolini‚ and Hitler explain the differences in their following articles. Krupskaya’s was a communist and her article What a Communist Ought to be Like describes the standards‚ mind set‚ back ground‚ and just an overall idea of what communists are like
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World War I directly influenced the beginning of World War II. Many believed that the Treaty of Versailles would keep Germany weak and did not expect another worldly attack‚ but little did they know. Putting all the blame and consequences on Germany also led others to predict World War II. The peace settlement after World War I made Germany very angry and desirable for revenge‚ thus leading to World War II. The Treaty of Versailles put germany in a very poor state. The document consisted of
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and economic ideology. One is Vladimir Lenin‚ a Russian Communist‚ who has founded the Communist party called Bolsheviks and became the first communist dictator in the world. The other is Franklin Roosevelt‚ the popular president who led the United States through its worst depression and war. This essay compares and contrasts Vladimir Lenin and Franklin Roosevelt ground on their early life‚ rising to power‚ and solutions to economic problems. Vladimir Lenin‚ ⑴the third of six children‚ has a well
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to praise the work of Lenin‚ making out that he was going to carry on Lenin’s work‚ which gave him extra support from the public‚ due to the fact after Lenin’s death the entire nation was in mourning and believed that Lenin was a good man giving his all to make the USSR a better place. It also gave Stalin the chance to criticize his biggest rival‚ Trotsky who was not at the funeral to defend himself‚ or to make out to the public that he was the leading man; the one that Lenin believed was the best
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