economy. Then the Americans and Soviets started to lose trust in each other. In the Yalta Conference‚ Stalin promised an established “broadly representative” government and free elections in Eastern Europe and to divide Germany only temporarily into zones of occupation‚ but he didn’t follow through. After‚ the American’s needed to MEET THE SOVIET CHALLENGE‚ because Truman thought that the Stalin had ambitions toward world domination. He wanted to face the Soviets head on. He feared that if the US
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1929. Stalin used the legacy at Lenin’s funeral. He was firstly able to make the speech by making sure that Trotsky was not present at the funeral. Due to Trotsky’s absence Stalin was able to praise the work of Lenin‚ making out that he was going to carry on Lenin’s work‚ which gave him extra support from the public‚ due to the fact after Lenin’s death the entire nation was in mourning and believed that Lenin was a good man giving his all to make the USSR a better place. It also gave Stalin the chance
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Cold War was began by actions made by the leaders of the US and USSR on that time‚ Stalin and Truman. Stalin actions make the impression on the West that he wanted to spread communism‚ but instead he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Red Army had control of Eastern Europe after the defeat of Germany‚ and only create a sphere of influence over the nearby territory. To strengthen his sphere of influence‚ Stalin established a communist government in Poland‚ even though that there was another
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Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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Collectivization”). This came at the cost of the agricultural industry‚ which suffered immense shortages‚ however this was the intent of Stalinist policy. After all‚ it was through collectivization that Stalin justified the removal‚ essentially a pre-purge‚ of the entire “kulak” (rich peasant) class‚ who Stalin claimed held the revolution back (Skocpol 230). While this was not an entirely new belief‚ Engels would write in response to Tchakov’s pamphlet on Russian wealthy peasants as being bloodsuckers‚ it
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communism) which consisted of mass arrests and executions ordered by the Bolshevik government and implemented by the Cheka. This idea of control through repression and terror continued in Russia under the leadership of Josef Stalin (OGPU‚ NKVD‚ NKGB‚ MGB). After the death of Stalin‚ Khrushchev implemented a period of ‘de-Stalinisation’ (KGB) with the aim of ridding the state of its secretive and repressive nature to open up and make allies with the west which was the first time since Alexander ll.
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-Body Paragraph (repeat as necessary‚ BE REALISTIC) What they built Topic Sentence: Prisoners in the labor camps slaved away at construction for the Soviet Union and built a majority of their economic infrastructure. Position: - The prisoners who lived in the Gulag produced mass amounts of railroads to canals working day after day with no stop. Evidence: “Gulag prisoners constructed the White Sea-Baltic Canal‚ the Moscow-Volga Canal‚ the Baikal-Amur main railroad line‚ numerous hydroelectric stations
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There is a debate among historians about whether or not the Cold War was inevitable. Some argue that despite their alliance during World War II (WWII)‚ the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) had conflicting ideologies and postwar plans in Europe such that the Cold War was inevitable. However‚ there is evidence to support that the Cold War was not inevitable. Roosevelt and Churchill’s commitment to the Big Three‚ Stalin’s actual goals after WWII‚ and the Soviet position on the inevitability
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About 75 to 80% those executed during repression in the Soviet Union were sentenced in the Yezhovshchina (Werth page 7). Including dekulakization campaign in the early 1930s and the 1942-1943 years of repression within World War Two. This is no coincidence that during the Yezhovshchina all of the national operations by the NKVD. This supports Shearer’s argument that policing in the 1930s was “unprecedented for a peacetime period” and that methods of terror including execution and deportation were
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How/why did Stalin become head of state? After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ everyone thought Trotsky‚ the brilliant leader of the red army would become leader‚ especially as Lenin left a Testament saying that Stalin was dangerous and a ‘grey blur’ and should be dismissed‚ but Stalin schemed his way into power‚ using his position as General Secretary as well as using a serious of ruthless political moves‚ devious tactics‚ the weakness of opposition‚ his own strengths‚ party weakness’ and factors out of
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