ESSAY BY:Xeneb Shah Our world has had some powerful leaders who have developed their countries as well as having had major impact on the world. Joseph Stalin‚ Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler were three of these leaders. All these three leaders were the most powerful and influential leaders of their time. Each one of them made a significant impact on their country as well as on world’s history. Although they received similar success‚ all of them reached their success quite differently
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Schrimsher AICE International History Period 7 16 December 2014 Josef Stalin: A Totalitarian Tyrant Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin‚ notoriously known as one of the most ruthless and inhumane tyrants‚ startlingly was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to end Second World War. Yet Stalin was not flaccid in his rise to power from an irrelevant position to the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1941-1953. Joseph Stalin is ubiquitously considered a totalitarian due to his economic‚ social
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that time. It took the Great Terror‚ the cult of personality and two decades of political patronage to put him in a position where he could abandon the pretences of law and rule like a tsarist despot. According to the political scientist Carl Friedrich‚ a totalitarian regime is distinguished by the following characteristics: a powerful ideology‚ which promised the onset of a golden era; a single mass-based party‚ led by a charismatic dictator; a system of terror‚ built around a ruthless secret
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pockmarked. This biography is about Joseph Stalin. Stalin was known for being the founder of the Soviet Union after the founder the Soviet Union. Stalin was born on December 18‚ 1878.Joseph was born in Gori Georgia‚ Russia.Born on December 18‚ 1879‚ in Gori‚ Georgia‚ Joseph Stalin rose to power as
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war as a member of the Trotskyist socialist party. Animal Farm is an allegory‚ fable and satire based on the people‚ politics and happenings during the era of Stalin. In the novel Animal Farm‚ Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin who was the man who became a tyrant ruler and led many people to their deaths. The devastations committed by Stalin can be compared to the devastations committed by Napoleon in Animal Farm. As an allegory‚ Orwell uses Napoleon`s dogs‚ false confessions and the starvation of
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Stalin was a great leader‚ known for his superior leadership and ruthless acts. Stalin led his people and country by fear. Under his leadership‚ many people were put to death due to political and cultural reasons. The methods Stalin used were fear-based. He strongly believed that fear was necessary in order to accomplish his vision of Russia’s vision. Under his orders during WW2‚ he ordered to search war zones and adjacent areas thoroughly for deserters or malingerers‚ and had them executed. His
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The Best of the Worst How is evil measured? One of the most discussed topics of the century has been the contrast between the command of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Both leaders have had a massive impact not only in their country’s history‚ but also in society itself. Hitler and Stalin wanted to obtain the well-being of their country and people‚ but it is their attempt to achieve this victory is what truly made history. Their tactics ranged from concentration camps to mass murders and wars
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fuelled by two ruthless dictators that aimed to assert their own ideologies on the rest of the world. By comparing Nazism to Stalinism‚ highlights the similar authoritarian measures they embraced in order to obtain their political goals. Hitler and Stalin were seen as figureheads of their respective states. They had support among their people that enabled them to exert their influence in a corrupt manner and to form powerful militaries that could sustain their ambitious aims. However‚ it is this juxtaposition
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The reign of terror was a period of violence in which occurred from 1793- 1794 after the strong onset of the French Revolution. It was a time of fierceness and anger‚ resulting in the deaths of thousands of people living in France at that period of time. The terror followed the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1793 and was incited by the conflict between the Girondins and Jacobins. Soon after‚ King Louis’ wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ was executed in the guillotine- the new form of constitutionalist
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the violence‚ fear‚ and dictatorship of Robespierre. The first event that shows this theme is the “Reign of Terror.” This event relates to the theme of fear and violence since Robespierre’s goal was to inflict fear on others in hopes of having them listen to him. The Reign of Terror was the time period in which Maximilien Robespierre assumed control after the execution of King Louis. The terror was created to kill off people who opposed the Revolution and to also stop a counter revolution. In Robespierre’s
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