control came from the use of police and military force by instilling great terror on the nation’s people (Cote). The most famous examples of totalitarianism is Nazi Germany and Stalinist Soviet Union. Both movies covered in class depict each of these regimes from a civilian’s perspective. “The Inner Circle” gave viewers a look into the brainwashing power of Stalin and how dependent people became on his directions. This dedication reached its peak at the end of the movie with Stalin’s death and the extreme
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the Ancient Greek philosopher was the root cause of totalitarianism in the west. It can’t be denied that there are similarities between Plato’s ideas in Republic and the Communist‚ Fascist and Nazi regimes we saw for much of the early 20th century. But what we see in Republic is Plato describing a very theoretical ideal state with very little interest in the physical implementation of this‚ so was Plato just a Utopian thinker where totalitarianism is a by product or was he a true totalitarian? Before
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Totalitarian governments wish to have one supreme objective‚ victory. In turn‚ citizens would sacrifice their freedom and become one class by the means of violence. Consequently totalitarianism assaults society‚human nature and spiritual values and their foundation of human freedom and civilization. Society is assaulted by totalitarianism through mass terror. Leaders of totalitarian parties would instill fear in their citizens and therefore citizens did not wish to question authority. If an authority figure
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1984‚ George Orwell Totalitarianism is a word that has many definitions that are true to their own time and their own society. One of the most common definitions used world wide is very complex‚ but very understandable when you are done reading the book 1984 by George Orwell. Totalitarianism is a system of government and ideology in which all social‚ political‚ economic‚ intellectual‚ cultural and spiritual activities are subordinated to the purpose of the rules of the rulers of a state. Several
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Connor Gonzalez-Falla Mr. Sweeney Western Civ 300 5/9/13 Stalin: Dictator‚ Killer‚ Savior? How does a man‚ nominated twice for the Nobel peace price‚ die with such equivocal feelings from his country? Why was he thought of as an advocate of freedom to some‚ but compared to Hitler by others? All these mixed feelings revolve around Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 until his death in 1953. In his reign‚ he fiercely used tactics of collectivization‚ purging and deportation
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emerge The opposition for Trotsky not only held Stalin but also 2 other politicians: Lev Kamenev and G.E. Zinoviev (a leading Bolshevik who had been Lenin’s closest aide during the revolution) Together‚ the 3 formed ‘’troika’’ a group & attacked Trotsky during party meetings‚ drawing on his writings/speeches from his last years as Menshevik as a means of attacking him for disloyalty Kamenev supported Stalin after Lenin died‚ when Stalin retained his post as General Secretary There was
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Amongst the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917‚ Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party’s Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin’s criticisms (in the postscript of his testament) and expanding the functions of his role‚ all the while eliminating any opposition. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952‚ concurrently serving
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Stalin industrialism research 1. “Save as” this document in your own documents. Please type all the answers onto the sheet and then print it out for your notes at the end of the lesson. Connect: Google research What was the Stakhanovite campaign? (recap) The Stakhanovite movement began during the second 5-year plan in 1935 as a new stage of the socialist competition. The Stakhanovite movement was named after Aleksei Stakhanov‚ who had mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours (14 times his
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3a) Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans and did they achieve for Russia what Stalin had planned for? Explain your answer. [12] In 1929‚ Stalin took over Russia who was considered one of the most backward economies in Europe. The Russian economy was in a very bad state‚ many of the factories were run-down and most people could not fend for themselves. Hence‚ to improve the economic conditions of Russia‚ Stalin set about transforming her economical and agricultural sectors by introducing
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The Daunting Effects of Totalitarianism In the novel 1984‚ George Orwell utilizes diction and figurative language to portray how a totalitarian government dehumanizes the lives of its people and obliterate their thought. In the beginning of the novel‚ Winston helps the reader visualize an important Newspeak worker at the Fiction Department with “two blank discs instead of eyes” (53). The usage of “two blank discs” is to describe the person’s eyes as a bleak image of thoughtlessness. Instead of
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