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    after the revolt‚ he symbolises Joseph Stalin‚ second chairman of The Soviet Union and in in most eyes‚ including Orwell’s‚ a ruthless dictator who destroys the revolutionary ideals. He uses excessive force (Dogs‚ representing Stalin’s secret police and the KGB) and propaganda to strengthen his rule. The pigs led by Napoleon start increasingly resemble humans‚ signifying Stalin’s similarity to fascists. He later changes the 7 commandments of Animalism‚ like Stalin did with Marxism-Leninism. His treatment

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    Stalin had very specific plans for Russia. He didn’t like the amount of Russian deaths in WWI‚ and wanted to industrialize the Soviet Union to prevent the amount of Russian deaths if there were to be another war. Stalin also wanted to take total control of the Soviet Union and destroy the old party leadership. He had many people removed from power and exiled

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    Stalin Joseph Stalin was born in gori georgia on 21 December 1879. Georgia was then a part of the Russian empire. Stalin’s original name was Iosif Visarionovich Dugashvili. His father was a cobbler and an alcoholic. His mother worked as maid. As a child joseph experienced the poverty that most peasants had to endure in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. At the age of seven he suffered from smallpox. He survived but the scars remained on his face. Because of this he was called as pocky

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    contributed to Stalin becoming the next leader are plentiful and can mostly be divided into Stalin’s own strengths and the weaknesses of his most important rival‚ Trotsky. All the factors can also be linked in one way or another‚ as shall be seen in this answer. One of the most important reasons why Stalin won the power struggle is that he used his high positions in the Communist party and the power that came with it to his advantage. Several factors fall under this category. Firstly is how Stalin used

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    After Hitler and Stalin established a foundation for their empire‚ it was time for them to rise to power. Adolf Hitler looked up to Benito Mussolini and decided he wanted to reach control by seizing power. Hitler and the brownshirts began to March towards the Munich‚ but was stopped short after being fired upon by soldiers and going to jail. The experience was an wakening to Hitler and realized he would have to take control politically. Hitler and his political party “Nazis” declared that the Nazi

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    examples of totalitarian leaders who are similar and different in many ways are Joseph Stalin and Hitler. Joseph Stalin was the totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953. As leader Stalin controlled police‚ education‚ religion and all other aspects of the people’s lives. This government is known as Communism. In Communism‚ government officials make all basic economic decisions. In the U.S.S.R Stalin forced all other states to follow Russian culture. In the industrial business‚ there

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    In July 1940‚ Stafford Cripps the British Ambassador in the Soviet Union‚ stressed to Stalin that Germany was a threat to Moscow and thus asked him to consider a military alliance with Britain. However‚ Stalin denied. He insisted that the non-aggression pact still held high importance to the interests of both Germany and the USSR. After this meeting‚ Stalin told Molotov to send the minutes of the discussions that took place to Berlin. This was an attempt to reassure Hitler of Stalin’s continuous

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    Joseph Stalin Rise to Power? Many believe Stalin’s rise to power began when he met Vladimir Lenin. In 1921 Stalin helped plan the invasion of Georgia which was the source for his negative policies towards the country. In 1922 he was appointed general secretary of the Bolshevik party with the help of Lenin. The main reason for this was to make life harder for Trotsky. When he first met Lenin he showed enormous support for his ideas and for the party. Lenin didn’t like the policies which Stalin had towards

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    Why were a series of industrial plans launched between 1928 and 1938? In 1928 it was clear to Stalin that the USSR needed a new economic system. Everybody knew that the NEP was failing and that Russia was economically backward compared to it surrounding countries. Stalin knew that for the USSR to make make money for herself she must first start to make money from grain exports‚ given that grain exports were at 13% that of pre-war levels he knew something must be done. The first of the five year

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    altering time in the history of the Soviet Union. During this time‚ Joseph Stalin used several means to rapidly industrialize the country. Some of these means did not take any one else’s perspective into consideration and Stalin did not care if he hurt one’s feelings or not. Having the USSR undertake a massive push toward industrialization would only mean that they would become a communist state. One of the ways that Stalin used to industrialize the Soviet Union very rapidly was by enforcing the

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