perished in WWII. Stalin himself was ruthless and paranoid and the people lived in fear‚ Stalin the only person truly safe from the midnight disappearances and
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Lenin and Stalin are the leaders who were known to be one of the most influential of Soviet Union. Lenin is known as the “father figure” and the creator of communist USSR. After Lenin’s rule in Soviet Union‚ Stalin began to rule the Soviet Union for approximately three decades. I consider Lenin’s program better than Lenin‚ but It should not be said that Lenin was unwilling to use violence. Seasants’ harvests were forcibly demanded by the state‚ because of his idea that it would all go to the State
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1922 making V.I. Lenin its first leader. Throughout those few year‚ Stalin steadily moved up the party ranks of the Bolshevik Party‚ and later in 1922‚ he gained the role as the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. This role gave him the ability to appoint his allies and supporters into government jobs and thus grow a foundation of political support. After the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924‚ Joseph Stalin had struggled to gain power. He outsmarted his rivals (Ex. Trotsky)
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the Russian Revolution. The most notable spark for the Russian Revolution was discontent in the working classes. These people made up the majority of the population‚ but were almost totally unrepresented in the decisions of their country. Before Stalin‚ there was much political unrest in the Soviet Union which had gone unnoticed‚ or rather ignored until dispute was unmistakeable‚ “...clearly the conditions were present by the opening
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death of Lenin in 1924‚ Russia was faced with Joseph Stalin who ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist for 24 years. Stalin rarely appeared to be what he really was and consistently was underestimated by his opponents‚ allowing him to gain support and create fear in the Russian people’s lives. Although Stalin faced much opposition‚ his manipulating ways allowed him to bypass this through purges‚ control on media‚ and his use of propaganda. Stalin pushed the Soviet Union into world power‚ but with
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restructured was one of the roots of the following decades of tension‚ known as the Cold War‚ between the USSR and the US. After World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union became rivals. US Leaders still feared the spread of Communism and Stalin continued to fear the capitalist
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Context When Joseph Stalin died on March 5th 1953‚ cold war tensions were at their worst. Meaningful diplomatic negotiations between the communist and capitalist adversaries had long since ended‚ and the nuclear arms race was entering a new and more dangerous phase. An atmosphere of hysteria and suspicion gripped the world’s two superpowers. In Moscow‚ ageing Stalin had spent his last days laying plans for murderous purges‚ while in Washington McCarthy continued his pursuit of communism. Soviet-American
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Explain the effects of the Purges? Introduction The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials‚ repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership‚ and widespread police surveillance‚ suspicion of "saboteurs"‚ imprisonment‚ and arbitrary executions. 1st Para Scientists‚ Doctors and Engineers‚ were heavily targeted‚ imprisoned and killed.
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The USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was found in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin. The USSR was shortly taken over by Joseph Stalin‚ which lasted from the 1920’s to the 1953.(DeSomma‚ 12) During the time of Stalin’s ruling the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)‚ a secret police force‚ murdered many soviet citizens and jailed many others to Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps that people were sent to if they were seen dangerous to the union. The Soviet then destroyed all owned
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Firstly war was a crucial part of the time period 1855-1964 with Russia going though small wars to huge full blown World Wars. Stalin was clearly to most successful leader in terms of war as he won WWII with shear mass of soldiers and equipment like tanks. Stalin won with quantity rather than quality however came out of the war the victor and a hero to many Russians. Stalin led Russia into the Cold War against America and managed to take control of much of Eastern Europe using East Germany an ’iron
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