To what extent was Stalin Prepared for War by 1941? In 1941‚ The Nazi Government of Germany put ‘Operation Barbarossa’ into practise. An invasion of Russia’s land for the purpose of Lebensraum. Stalin quickly set into action and a war began on the Eastern front. Some Historians debate on whether Stalin was ready for war by 1941‚ or not. It could be argued that Stalin was ready for war by 1941‚ due to the size of the army. By 1941‚ there were 5 million red army soldiers enlisted. Coupled with 230
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disagreements during World War II. With the onset of Operation Barbarossa‚ Nazi Germany shifted emphasis from an already dominated Western Europe to its eastern border with Russia. The betrayal of the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact came as a surprise to Stalin‚ who quickly began mobilizing fighting aged men to bolster his vulnerable ground defenses. The resulting campaign lead to the death of some 20 million soldiers and citizens‚ all the while devastating numerous Russian population and industrial centers
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Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin were both key players in politics during the inter-war period. Though in drastically different countries; one a democracy in the western world‚ and one a communist totalitarian state in the east‚ their plans of action to pick their countries up after different defeats do have some similarities. Granted their actions also have drastic differences‚ parallels can also be drawn between the New Deal and the Five Year plan. Franklin Roosevelt was first elected in 1933
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of Trotsky‚ his influence meant that he “called upon the very force that destroyed him”‚ and that his strengths were inextricably linked to his weaknesses. In this quote‚ he is referring to the fact that Trotsky’s efforts in his power struggle with Stalin contributed to his death‚ and the deaths of many others. He is also saying that Trotsky’s political success was stifled by his own passion and intellect. In order to evaluate these ideas about Trotsky’s role in the Soviet Union‚ we must investigate
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the 3 5 year plans that helped transform the economy. Collectivisation was the process by which Russian agriculture was reformed‚ small farm were merged into larger units‚ in hope of production becoming more efficient and increasing its output. Stalin was aware of the increasing possibility of a war with Germany and so self-efficiency in food production became more imminently important in order to survive a war against the western powers. From 1927-1929 harvests fell‚ simultaneously affecting
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After Vladimir Lenin died in 1924‚ Joseph Stalin was able to outcompete his rivals and become dictator of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1929‚ Stalin began his rule through the creation of a series of five-year plans‚ during which he attempted to jump start industrialization in the Soviet Union and take control of the peasant-run agriculture through forced government collectivization. Though Stalin was faced with backlash from millions of farmers‚ he did not budge; anyone who opposed
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LENIN Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother
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major countries in the world. During the Cold War the leader of the Soviet Union was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. Khrushchev came to power in 1953 after the former dictator and gave a famous secret speech that denounced the previous leader‚ Joseph Stalin‚ for his crimes against the USSR. Khrushchev was a major player during the Cuban Missile Crises and directly‚ through letters‚ communicated with the US president‚ John F. Kennedy. Khrushchev was a communist leader‚ but his way of communism was different
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in a worldwide turmoil. One major conflict that propelled the U.S‚ and Soviet Union to start a Cold War was that the Soviets pulled back on the agreement to let the Eastern Europeans to decide their own destiny; imposing a dictatorial rule. Joseph Stalin was eager to dominate the world and make it a communist ideology. Regrettably‚ the U.S joined the Cold War to defend the world in becoming a totalitarian one (causes of the cold war summary & analysis). During this period‚ these two nations were the
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Stalin was the most effective totalitarianism leader because he controlled all aspects of Russians life‚ launched the Great Purge in Russia and created Five Year Plans. Stalin planned to turn the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state that means the government took total control over every aspect of public and private life. The government controlled every education system‚ from nursery through the universities also schoolchildren learned the virtues of the communist party. The government wanted the
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