Ian Kershaw was a medievalist who‚ nearly 30 years ago‚ turned his interests to the history of the Third Reich. This is the second volume of his encyclopaedic biography of Hitler‚ and the best thing in it is his treatment of Hitler’s effect on the German people. He intersperses his biography with evidence of German popular sentiment‚ fragmentary and yet telling. Many Germans (perhaps understandably) have tried to separate the history of Hitler from the history of the German people during the
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Connor Gonzalez-Falla Mr. Sweeney Western Civ 300 5/9/13 Stalin: Dictator‚ Killer‚ Savior? How does a man‚ nominated twice for the Nobel peace price‚ die with such equivocal feelings from his country? Why was he thought of as an advocate of freedom to some‚ but compared to Hitler by others? All these mixed feelings revolve around Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 until his death in 1953. In his reign‚ he fiercely used tactics of collectivization‚ purging and deportation
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Joseph Stalin was a General Secretary of the Central committee of the communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. He changed Russia from an undeveloped country into a modernised country. As Stalin became secretary general‚ he intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into a new modern country. To do this‚ he introduced the new industrialisation plans. Theses industrialisation plans had a major effect on the lives of people in the Union Socialist Republics (USSR) during
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the most dramatic rises to power in human history? The beginning of the Nazi party started in with a group of socialists in Munich‚ Germany. The original name for the party was The National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The Nazi party’s main strategy was that of most of the other political parties in Germany after the loss of the war and the treatment they receive in the treaty of Versailles‚ thrashing the government
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Hitler’s Rise to Power On January 30‚ 1933‚ Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany as the Nazi political leader. His rise to power occurred during a worldwide economic depression‚ where much poverty struck leaving millions without a job. It was also post-World War 1‚ 15 years before the 1930’s‚ where the Germans has little faith in their government. Under these conditions‚ Adolf Hitler and his party‚ the National Socialist German Workers’ Party‚ were given the chance for the rise of a new
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equal opportunity to live comfortable lives with guaranteed jobs. Common known leaders such as Adolf Hitler‚ Joseph Stalin‚ and Napoleon Bonaparte were all leaders that came to rescue their country from times of struggle only to end their rule in chaos. On June 28‚ 1919‚ the Treaty of Versailles was just signed. After five years of fighting‚ Germany had surrendered to the Allied Powers. Written in the treaty‚ Germany was supposed to take all blame for the war‚ pay all war reparations‚ limit their army
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widely known as one of the most influential and popular names in ancient history. However‚ the story of Pericles coming to power‚ resembles the mark of a true leader‚ one who understands his country‚ and the people who live in it. We all understand that Pericles was a war hero‚ but his rise to political power is what made him a great leader to the Athenians. His rise to power is drastically different than many of the athenian leader we have come to know and that is why the common folk admired him
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1894-1953 ACCOUNT FOR STALIN ’S RISE TO POWER IN THE PERIOD 1922 TO 1929 INTRODUCTION Stalin ’s ascent to the leadership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was neither easy nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent. Among such company Stalin - the bureaucrat from
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“The main reason for the rise of the NSDAP to power in 1933 was Hitler himself”. How far do you agree with this view? The rise of Hitler and the NSDAP remains a very significant event in European history and is still a controversial topic even today. Historians have all come with many different explanations for the rise of Hitler to power in 1933; however some historians would attribute the overwhelming success of the NSDAP in 1933 to one man‚ Adolf Hitler. Portrayed as the ‘messiah’ to rid Germans
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3a) Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans and did they achieve for Russia what Stalin had planned for? Explain your answer. [12] In 1929‚ Stalin took over Russia who was considered one of the most backward economies in Europe. The Russian economy was in a very bad state‚ many of the factories were run-down and most people could not fend for themselves. Hence‚ to improve the economic conditions of Russia‚ Stalin set about transforming her economical and agricultural sectors by introducing
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