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    Stalin’s technique to take Germany forward was using five year plans. Stalin believed there was need for these five- year plans as : First of all many of the regions were behind other countries in growth and that the USSR were backward Stalin believed that to be be backward you are defeated and enslaved but if you are powerful people must beware of you. Stalin also believed (with Lenin) the USSR should overtake and out strip the capitalist countries He believed Socialism in one country and the USSR

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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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    Mussolini and Stalin were two very powerful leaders of their countries. Mussolini was an Italian Leader whose goal it was to rebuild Rome to its former glory. His ruling was a form of dictator called a totalitarianism. A totalitarianism leader ruled‚ “a government in which a single party or leader controls the economic‚ social‚ and cultural lives of its people” (Pearson text). In 1922 the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to come up with a form of government. Mussolini opposed liberalism

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    Dictators‚ it’s power‚ money and control over people. Whenever the word dictator gets thrown around‚ Adolf Hitler always comes to mind. We all have at some stage in our schooling life read about WW2‚ or watched one of the movies related to it. So‚ I’m not going to talk to you today telling you who Hitler was and what he did. Instead‚ I’m going to explore other dictators‚ and why they came to be. Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922-1953. In his time of power‚ collectivism was

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    was in fact socialist‚ but as his party was not getting as many votes as he expected he shifted to fascism‚ but reluctantly breaking his links with socialism. The rise and the consolidation of power was done in a superficially legal manner‚ but a party led by a dictator needs a harsh rule to stay in power and be to some extent ruthless to bring order - something Europe needed‚ specially after the mess created by World War One. By 1900 the process of unification in Italy‚ the Risorgimento‚ had largely

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    in 1925 Stalin was able to consolidate his power base and break with Kamenev and Zinoviev. And by then end of the decade he emerged as the supreme leader. In 1928 Stalin introduces his first Five-Year Plan‚ the “revolution from above” to help develop the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had fallen behind‚ Stalin remarked‚ “We are fifty to one-hundred years behind the advanced countries.... we must make good this distance in 10 years. Either we do it‚ or we shall go under..”1 To do this Stalin has the

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    Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. These three names define World War II. World policy revolved around them for at least a decade or in Stalin ’s case for almost fifty years. Much is generally known about each man ’s role in the war‚ but only as it pertains to the outcome. Not many people possess extensive knowledge of these dictators as individuals or as leaders of a particular party. This paper will attempt to shed light on the differences as well as the similarities of they style of totalitarianism that

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    this time were Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin they brought terror and fear to the battlefield forcing their enemies to retreat. How do these giants compare?     These gods of war are very similar in many ways. Hitler and Stalin as children had very abusive fathers. These dictators were born outside of the countries they ruled. They also worked on killing anyone they disagreed with or they didn’t think were equal. I find it really scary how similar Hitler and Stalin are.     These two dictators are different

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    events that occurred during the Russian Revolution and the events surrounding the Russian Revolution. Through the character Napoleon and his use of terror and propaganda on the citizens of the Animal Farm‚ George Orwell castigates mad dictator Joseph Stalin and his reign on Russia. The main character in Animal Farm‚ Napoleon‚ had many interesting traits but as the story progresses he evolves into a different character. In the beginning of the novel‚ Napoleon is not much of a big figure. “Napoleon was

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    and Stalin‚ both members of the Politburo‚ the top section within the party. However‚ looking back from today we can see that Trotsky never really opposed a real threat to Stalin who would become the new leader of Russia officially in 1929. Stalin became the new communist leader after he successfully had won over both Trotsky‚ the right group of the party and the left group. In 1922 Stalin had been given the position as General Secretary of the Bolshevik party. Silently but effectively Stalin began

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