Explain how Stalin developed the cult of personality in the 1930s. Stalin became leader of Russia in 1927. He needed to achieve the support of the Russian people and he managed to do this by using his intellect and power. He used propaganda and mass media. He also cleverly rewrote history‚ making it look as if he had a bigger part in the October revolution than he actually did. He also managed to make his relationship with Lenin look much closer than they were. He cunningly told Trotsky the wrong
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Stalin Joseph Stalin was born in gori georgia on 21 December 1879. Georgia was then a part of the Russian empire. Stalin’s original name was Iosif Visarionovich Dugashvili. His father was a cobbler and an alcoholic. His mother worked as maid. As a child joseph experienced the poverty that most peasants had to endure in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. At the age of seven he suffered from smallpox. He survived but the scars remained on his face. Because of this he was called as pocky
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the story of Gatsby‚ a man whose desire to be one of the elite led him to acquire a great deal of money to create an idealistic dream life for himself of loving Daisy in a perfect world. Author might have written the title "great" ironically‚ meanwhile Gatsby is still great personally in many ways and much better than the society he lived in. Gatsby is one of the wealthiest people in West Egg and any of his parties would qualify as a legendary event
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In July 1940‚ Stafford Cripps the British Ambassador in the Soviet Union‚ stressed to Stalin that Germany was a threat to Moscow and thus asked him to consider a military alliance with Britain. However‚ Stalin denied. He insisted that the non-aggression pact still held high importance to the interests of both Germany and the USSR. After this meeting‚ Stalin told Molotov to send the minutes of the discussions that took place to Berlin. This was an attempt to reassure Hitler of Stalin’s continuous
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Stalin’s purges of 1937 were debatably one of the most horrific events of the 1900s. Stalin‚ the General Secretary of the Soviet Union‚ decided that to be able to have a nation which aligned with his political ideas‚ he would need to eradicate those who he deemed went against these views. Stalin used the purges as a method to exercise his political control over his population and control the political spectrum. Stalin killed millions during the purges. About four years later‚ Hitler‚ the leader of Germany
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Why were a series of industrial plans launched between 1928 and 1938? In 1928 it was clear to Stalin that the USSR needed a new economic system. Everybody knew that the NEP was failing and that Russia was economically backward compared to it surrounding countries. Stalin knew that for the USSR to make make money for herself she must first start to make money from grain exports‚ given that grain exports were at 13% that of pre-war levels he knew something must be done. The first of the five year
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广东外语外贸大学国际商务英语学院 《高级英语写作(一)》2006-2007学年下学期期末考试试卷(A) 考核对象： 2004级全体学生 考试时间： 150分钟 班级： 学号： 姓名： Part I Vocabulary (1%×10= 10%) Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A‚ B‚ C and D. Please choose one that best interprets the underlined part. Please write your answers on the answer sheet. 1. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores. A. scattered B. splattered C. splintered D. spread 2. Given falling
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required
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Stalin was not the most likely candidate to succeed Lenin. By looking at the facts and the background history of Stalin‚ it is quite clear that he was not the favoured candidate. The cons outweighed the pros and numerous reasons such as Lenin’s testament‚ Stalin’s poor revolutionary record‚ not being an intellectual thinker and being a dull and uninspiring person all led Stalin to being a less favoured candidate. Lenin was the overall leader of communist Russia‚ and was very well respected
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Why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin The first reason why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin was because Stalin had an important position of General Secretary. He used his position as secretary to put his supporters on the Central Committee of the party and dismissed Trotsky’s. This helped him establish control over the party and this lead to him building a powerbase in which he was in control. Having mostly his supporters in the party helped as there were few members
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