severe measures to make sure that he remain the leader of the Soviet Union. To keep his place as ruler of Russia‚ he provoked fear amongst his people‚ got rid of political opponents‚ and promised the people a better future. As Adolf Hitler once said‚ “To conquer a nation‚ first disarm its citizens.” By steadily inflicting punishments on anyone who disobeyed the government‚ Stalin weeded out those who would not cooperate with the Soviet Union‚ and set an example for the rest of the people‚ effectively
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The following lists and describes the options for responding to and dealing with the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Development of Events The Soviet Union has collapsed due to a number of different reasons. It is mainly the direct result of the end of the Cold War. Multiple different events led to this result‚ from multiple revolutions in Europe to General Secretary Gorbachev making concessions domestically and internationally‚ led to this‚ once powerful‚ nation to collapse. In the late 1980’s
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If The Soviets continued……. FLASHBACK: USSR or The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union‚ had many names but no individuality. It was a conglomeration of 15 Soviet Republics‚ governed as a single party state and led by the communist party at its centre with Moscow as its capital. None of these states were independent but they had their independent issues. The soviet governed from the year 1922 to 1991‚ it kept U.S.A’s powers in check consistently but in that course the expenditure
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861.00/2 - 2246: Telegram The Charge in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State SECRET Moscow‚ February 22‚ 1946--9 p.m. [Received February 22--3: 52 p.m.] 511. Answer to Dept’s 284‚ Feb 3 [13] involves questions so intricate‚ so delicate‚ so strange to our form of thought‚ and so important to analysis of our international environment that I cannot compress answers into single brief message without yielding to what I feel would be dangerous degree of over-simplification. I hope‚ therefore
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Document 1: What are Soviet citizens complaining about? The Soviets are complaining about conditions of the Soviet Union‚ such as the lack of food and goods‚ increased inflation‚ and working conditions. According to the cartoonist‚ how are soviet officials reacting to these problems? The Soviet leaders are reacting to this problem by not actually fixing them and separating themselves from the lower classes. Document 2: What does this report say about the soviet union? The report says that perestroika
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World War 2 (WW2) destroyed the Soviet Union. Apart from the loss of 25 million Russians‚ whole cities had been reduced to rubble‚ villages obliterated‚ and machinery and livestock destroyed (Aldred and Waller). Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin‚ the Soviet Union came out of WW2 with the goals of safeguarding and rebuilding the nation‚ expanding the communist sphere of influence and thereby‚ creating an indestructible Soviet Empire. In the twentieth century‚ Russia suffered three attacks from
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The Soviet Union strategic decision was to expand communism not only on the European continent but as well as across the international system. This was apparent following the West intervention in the Russian Civil War that the Soviet Union would support communist revolutionary groups advocated for an overthrow of Western liberal capitalist regimes and established a communist state. In phase I (1917-1941) and phase III (1945-1985)‚ the Soviet Union would attempt to undermine Western regimes‚ through
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1954‚ effectively as a dictator. Within the first ten years of his period of rule‚ Stalin introduced significant change to the Soviet Union in areas of policy such as‚ industrialization‚ agriculture‚ education and culture. Despite the fact that some positive implications were perceived within the nation and soviet society regarding the outcomes of his policies relating to industrialization and education‚ the impact of his policies in the areas
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Stephen Wears Assess the main factors of the break-up of the Soviet Union The break up and dissolution of the Soviet Union on the 25th December 1991 heralded the end of the Cold War. It ushered in what had been termed ’the new world order ’‚ furthermore‚ it was suggested by Francis Fukuyama to have signalled the end of history and the battle of ideas which had dominated much of the twentieth century (Huntington‚ 1996; 31). The ’clash of civilizations ’ had already seen the demise of fascism
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The Soviet Union was a horrible and the most powerful communist state that has ever existed. It was created by the merger of a ton of socialist countries in Eastern Europe and North Asia that all collectivized into one incredibly centralized state. The Communist Party took over in the October Revolution of 1917 led by Vladimir Lenin fighting against the Mensheviks. They established themselves as the sole ruling party of the Soviet Union‚ and placed their headquarters in Moscow‚ Russia. The Soviet
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