Berlin 1945 End of WWII results in a USSR domination of Eastern Europe tensions arise that lead to cold war 1949 Russia explodes first atomic device => tension with the U.S 1954 Stalin dies Khrushchev replaces him as first secretary -In effort to gain political status Khrushchev delivers a speech which denounces Stalin 1955 Warsaw pact created to counter NATO -Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Czechoslovakia‚ East Germany‚ Hungary‚ Poland‚ Romania 1962 Cuban missile crisis between U.S and USSR almost leads
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Q8. Mao Zedong was the Communists party leader in China during the time of the civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. Mao Zedong embraced the idea of Marxist socialism‚ communism‚ from a young age. Mao realized the potential within the Chinese peasants and believed he would be able to lead them in a revolt in hope to spread the political idea of Communism throughout all of China. Unfortunately‚ Mao and the Communists faced the major threat of Jiang Jieshi and his political party of Nationalism
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The death of Lenin marked the start of Stalin legacy over U.S.S.R. In his speech The Hard Line‚ he said “All beat her-for her backwardness: for military backwardness‚ for cultural backwardness‚ for political backwardness‚ for industrial backwardness‚ for agricultural backwardness.”‚ not only does this phrase describes the state of U.S.S.R but also Stalin ambition and sensitivity towards his country. Stalin design was to insure that Russia would no longer trail behind the rest of the world as it
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Was Stalin’s Foreign Policy a Failure? This is a question that can‚ I think‚ be tackled on a purely empirical level‚ proceeding by example and analysis. Stalin was in many ways a superb tactician; cool‚ rational‚ intelligent and utterly ruthless. However‚ his grasp of international relations was never the strongest of his talents. On occasions his miscalculations had disastrous implications‚ both for the immediate and long-term security of the Soviet Union. To begin with the problem was one
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The uprising took place during the harvesting period to intensify the class struggles in the village. Mao had realized the revolutionary potential of the peasant class because the peasants‚ who were the most exploited class‚ had already begun revolting against the ruthless economic exploitation that they were subjected to by the petty bourgeoisie‚ the warlords and landlord classes. Consequently‚ Mao rallied the peasants and organized a small army and which he led during the Hunan movement. This army
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1944‚ when it was created by a Polish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin‚ who combined “geno”‚ meaning race or tribe‚ with “cide”‚ which means killing. The Holodomor refers to the famine of the Ukranian people from 1932 to 1933 under the rule of a Josef Stalin. Under his leadership‚ the Soviet Union persecuted the Ukrainian people by denying them their basic needs. An estimated 7‚000‚000 people died in this genocide‚ which is also known as Holodomor‚ meaning “death by hunger.” The events that led up to
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Mao Zedong was a bad leader for China. While Mao was in power‚ many people lost their lives due to the Red Guards. The Red Guards were enforcing Mao’s policies because they thought that was the correct thing to do. The Red Guards assaulted people who held different opinions regarding the change in the culture of China. This resulted in people losing their lives ( Schwartz‚ 5). For example‚ when the peasants challenged Mao’s opinion about what they were told to do during the Great Leap Forward they
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throughout history. Governments often justify oppression of their people through laws which are passed for “the betterment of society.” A prime example of oppression justified by “bettering the society” are the policies of the Russian Dictator‚ Joseph Stalin. Stalin believed in order to survive as a whole the russian people must work to increase economic standing against advanced capitalist nations. Stalin’s speech entitled “The Need For Progress” provides proof of his stance‚ “Do you want our socialist
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required
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Rick Guo Period: 4 5/14/2013 Joseph Stalin And 1984 Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the 1920 until his death in 1953. He has done a lot of good things for his country but during his reign‚ he also has a lot of mistakes and these mistakes we also can see in the story called 1984. 1984 tells the story of a country’s authoritarian regime and the “big brother”
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