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    fighting force; though‚ because of the actions and plans laid out by Stalin‚ the USSR was able to overcome and triumph over the technologically advanced nation. Along with the creation of the new state‚ new leaders and statesmen emerged from the great cauldron known as the Communist party‚ some of these included Lenin‚ Trotsky‚ and Stalin. Although there were many great leaders of the nation‚ this paper will consist of Stalin and what his impact on the Soviet Union was‚ as a result of the NEP and

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    “ How did Stalin use propaganda to help him gain power?”. This topic will focus on how he used arts and media and how that helped him gain power.I chosen this topic because I’m interested on how he used propaganda to build himself up in the eyes of people. It’s was amazing on how Stalin managed to brainwash the people into thinking he was the defender of the people and even though he was the one that placed them in concentration camps they still came back to him for help. Also how Stalin wanted to

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    Europe experienced the rise of many dictators‚ notably Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. Both rose to power within the 1920s and 1930s to discover their countries in economic despair. Ruthless dictators‚ Hitler and Stalin achieved their positions of power differently. The people of Germany appointed Hitler whereas Stalin competed with others to aquire the role of a deceased predecessor. Both Germany and Russia had never experienced a war as sophisticated and far stretched

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    major economic factors regarded by Stalin during his rule‚ as it helped and achieved his belief of “Socialism in One Country”. Understanding the concept of collectivisation by Stalin in 1929 is imperative to understand that these economic factors were regarded as acceptable under Stalin’s tyranny since he provided a negative control to the Russian public. The economic factors of industrialisation and collectivisation

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    style change of Stalin in late 1940 lead to a drastic increase of military effectiveness. This eventually led to victory over Germany because officers such as Zhukov were put in charge while Hitler drove his military into the ground. Prior to late 1940‚ Stalin was in complete control of military decisions; however‚ Stalin had no previous military experience. Stalin felt that the opposition party still had the potential to oust Stalin. There was still the possibility‚ so Stalin decided to lay

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    To what extent were Hitler and Stalin similar? Hitler and Stalin were both cruel dictators around the time of WW2‚ but to what extent were these two men similar? Firstly they were both dictators throughout WW2; however they were both of different beliefs. Hitler was a fascist and Stalin was a communist‚ however they were both such extreme versions of these beliefs that they were‚ in many ways alike. Starting with childhood‚ Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in a small Austrian town called

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    The Ggreat Terror‚ or also known as the Great Purge‚ was one of the few Genocides which killed over a million people‚ including political parties. The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate any challenge from past and potential opposition groups. iIn 1934‚ Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the purge years later‚.I in which millions perished. The NKVD detained 1‚546‚366 people‚ of whome 681‚692 were shot‚ with almost 1‚000 executions a day. {In the

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    Orwell‚ wrote the book Animal Farm. This novel is a political book where Orwell criticizes Stalinism. Stalinism is Joseph Stalin’s concept of communism‚ which he used to rule the USSR. Joseph Stalin was a dictator for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ also known as USSR‚ from 1929 to 1953. When Stalin dictated the Soviet Union‚ he transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower. He used terror to rule over his people and caused many of them to die during his reign. Communism

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    1. 2. 162-163) . Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar and in this play you can see similarities and differences between Adolf Hitler and Julius Caesar‚ as well as Joseph Stalin and Brutus. This paper will be showing how Brutus and Hitler are alike in stabbing Caesar and Stalin in the back as well as how Caesar and Stalin are alike in how they handle it and what happened afterward. Julius Caesar was a “dictator” so to say of Rome‚ he also had a wife named Calpurnia‚ he was a very self centered

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    STALIN Joseph Stalin was the prime minister of the soviet union He was basically a Russian .He was the prime minister from 6may 1941 until his death .   EARLY LIFE: Stalin was born  on 18 December 1878[1] to Ketevan Geladze and Besarion Jughashvili‚his father was a clobber in gori‚ Russian empire‚ now Georgia. He was their fourth child; their three previous sons died in infancy. At the age of seven‚ he contracted smallpox.  At ten‚ he began attending church school where the Georgian children

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