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    The type of governmental system that is present in the novel‚ 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ which is totalitarianism‚ compared to the governmental system America‚ democracy‚ is the polar opposite. Oceania‚ where the setting takes place in the novel‚ 1984‚ does not have a stable constitution for it’s people and government. Totalitarianism is when a government has total control everything and everyone in a country and democracy is a system of government where the people have a justifiable amount of rights

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    a novel about totalitarianism and the fate of a single man who tried to escape from an overwhelming political regime. A totalitarian government is one that tries to control every aspect of life. How people spend every minute of their time even in private‚ who they can associate with and what they are allowed to say. A totalitarian government even tries to control what people think and what they believe. George Orwell wrote 1984 in the late 1940s. What he knew about totalitarianism was based on the

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    Stalin Aka Joseph Stalin was a leader in the soviet union. He came after Lenin’s death. Stalin was not that good of a guy actually he kinda killed millions of people. But in some ways he actually helped the world. But Ooverall people see him as a bad person. His intentions were noble but how he enforced them is what failed. He was in general a bad person but he had his good parts but he has to be labeled as a villain. Joseph stalin was the 2nd leader of the soviet union. He took over with two other

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    Stalin’s Great Purges of 1932-1939 "Can Stalin be linked to the Purges beyond doubt?" Abstract For my Extended Essay‚ my research question is‚ Can Stalin be linked to the Great Purges beyond doubt?". There is a lot of evidence supporting that he was responsible for the purges. By using several different sources I investigated each purge individually. The three purges include the chitska‚ the show trials‚ and the overall mass terror. For each purge I explain how he was related to them‚ his

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    Why did Stalin win? Throughout the summer of 1923 it was apparent that Lenin’s reign was coming to an end and this overshadowed the political struggle however in the Politburo and central committee battle lines were forming. They all thought that they were deserving candidates with so thinking that they were untouchable and were destined to lead USSR . Leon Trotsky seemed to have the stronghold as he had a close relationship with Lenin. However in the background there was opposition growing. Stalin

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    Test Essay (Question 2) During the Second World War‚ Truman and Stalin were allies because the US and the USSR were the two most powerful countries that took part in the war. Their will do defeat Germany is what kept their alliance stable and they became much more powerful after combining their powers. After the Second World War the east and the west were having bad relations which caused a separation of the two areas‚ Stalin controlled the east while Truman controlled the western areas. The events

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    Was Stalin a "Great Man"?

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    course of the future. In the case of Joseph Stalin‚ dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953‚ one can perceive that through torment and brutal force‚ he was able to modernize a nation and oppress his own people. One can argue that Stalin was a great leader of the 20th century. After all‚ he took an undeveloped country and molded it into one of the world’s greatest industrial and military forces. But‚ this transformation did not come at a small cost. Stalin was so paranoid that his Communist regime

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    and Italy‚ to create the team known as the Axis. These two dictators were Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. After a betrayal between the two‚ Hitler stays with the Axis and Stalin joins America and the rest of the countries that formed the side called the Allies. Prior to World War II‚ the truth of Hitler’s terrible reign of genocide and dictatorship comes to the light. However‚ another Hitler and Stalin both served as dictators during World War II. They hated each other but seem to have been triumphant

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    Islam is a special case which we’ll address later‚ but China is merely the last remaining Communist power and even it is now really only a fascist regime (in that it combines capitalism with authoritarian government‚ rather than relying on the totalitarianism of a Communist system). There does not appear to be any reason that China will not evolve into a relatively Western style state over the next several decades. Many‚ like Huntington‚ seem to be nearly hypnotized by the sheer size of China and

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    and collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. Stalin believed that the Soviet domestic policy should stop being driven by capitalism and the New Economic Policy as soon as possible. In return‚ the Soviet Union would be transformed into an industrialized socialist state regardless of the cost involved in the process. The five year plan called for swift industrialization of the economy‚ with an emphasis on heavy industry. Stalin wanted to achieve a 250 percent increase in total industrial

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