Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. These three names define World War II. World policy revolved around them for at least a decade or in Stalin ’s case for almost fifty years. Much is generally known about each man ’s role in the war‚ but only as it pertains to the outcome. Not many people possess extensive knowledge of these dictators as individuals or as leaders of a particular party. This paper will attempt to shed light on the differences as well as the similarities of they style of totalitarianism that
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fascism between the wars‚ Payne (1995) described Mussolini as the most liberal of the totalitarian personalities that dominated that period. Perhaps this was a vestige of his earlier involvement with revolutionary socialism‚ or a reflection from his early years. Yet‚ the fact remains that Mussolini‚ along with Hitler‚ was an architect of fascism and of the policies that led to World War II. The intention in the following pages is to explore Mussolini ’s rise to power‚ including his childhood and youthful
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Vladimir Lenin was a communist leader and a politician. Lenin rose to power in 1917 and was the premier of the newly formed USSR from 1922 to 1924. He was a profound follower of the Karl Marx and his own contributions to Marxism led to the formation of a new ideology that was later labeled as Marxism-Leninism. Lenin was credited for ending the rule of the tsar in Russia as Imperial Russia was drowned in a bloody Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Lenin is also referred to as the father figure; a man who
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Vladimir Lenin: A Catalyst for Revolution In the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was the driving force behind Russian Marxism‚ reformation and organization of the working class‚ and the political catalyst behind the Revolution of 1905. During this time period‚ the new Russian working class had left the countryside for urban factories. Workers revolted against Tsarist oppression and participated in illegal strikes. Lenin organized workers under the Social Democratic
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The dictatorial leadership of Joseph Stalin‚ Benito Mussolini‚ and Adolf Hitler encountered with the Western nations because all three of the inhumane leaders broke the western nations beliefs. Stalin‚ Mussolini‚ and Hitler were all dictators that contributed to the beginning of World War II. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ Mussolini was the leader of the fascist party‚ and Hitler was leader of the Nazi party. These men were abominable and inhumane. They killed millions of people during
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Goodbye Lenin movie is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It describes a loyal communist single mother Christiane Kerner who suffers two painful events that affects her life‚ first her husband Robert run away to the West and never came back. ‚ Leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children’s‚ Ariane and Alex‚ by herself. Second event is Months before the fall of the Berlin wall 1989. There was a revolution against the
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some similarities between Hobson and Lenin works on capitalist imperialism. Lenin started by focusing on the massive industrial concentration that had happened in all industrialized capitalist countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. Subsequently‚ he presented the statistics and descriptive data and accounts of the emerging of monopolies‚ oligopolies‚ cartels‚ and trusts in the capitalist countries (Hunt & Lautzenheiser‚ 2011). Similar to Hobson‚ Lenin highlights the importance of banks and
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Debate: Lenin‚ Tyrant or Savior? The debate is still going on between high profile historians as to whether or not Lenin was a Tyrant or a Savior. It is hard to just take one side‚ as it is not clear cut. To understand better why it is so hard to put Lenin under one of theses profiles‚ I will study the arguments as to why he was a Tyrant. Then I will go over the arguments which support the idea that Lenin was in fact a Savior. I will then be able to take an opinion. Lenin was very interested
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capable of taking power and controlling it in such a form as Machiavelli prescribed it. Vladimir Ilich Lenin was this man‚ he became the first leader of one of the most Machiavellian governments ever in existence‚ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin represented the key principles of the Machiavellian idea. When the Communist government finally started to function properly‚ Lenin managed to be both loved and feared as the head of the new state. Furthermore‚ he also managed to be greatly
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In April 1917‚ a month after the Romanov Dynasty in Russia effectively ended with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II‚ Vladimir Ilich Lenin returned to Russia from exile with a formidable revolutionary mentality. The Tsar’s abdication prompted a period of dual power between select members of the defunct fourth Duma‚ now termed the Provisional Government‚ and the newly formed Petrograd Soviet. This arrangement offered a sense of political stability‚ a stability that was detrimental to Lenin’s quest
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