Although Hitler and Stalin both employed a special police force to help control the country under their totalitarian rule‚ Hitler’s force relied on having secret police everywhere while Stalin relied on having individuals report their friends and coworkers. To control citizens by spying on them and imprisoning them‚ Hitler employed the use of the Himmler’s SS and the Gestapo political police. The SS initially started off as Hitler’s personal bodyguards‚ but under Himmler’s command‚ they evolved into
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prisoner‚ he explains the potential dangers of engaging in acts of resistance against the Stalinist government by stating “it was safer to keep dynamite during the rule of Alexander II than it was to shelter the orphan of an enemy of the people under Stalin.” This contrast serves as a measurement of the challenges that made resistance extremely difficult for victims. As well as this‚ the general mistrust and secrecy
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Introduction Ever since World War Two‚ when the dictators Hitler and Stalin rose to power‚ a new form of government has become ever more prevalent‚ both in popular culture and real life (Arendt). Through a singular ideology and extensive propaganda campaigns‚ totalitarian governments control the populace as completely as they are able‚ discouraging individual thought and criticism of their regime (Laqueur). Although relatively young in conception‚ the idea of a controlling‚ near-omnipotent government
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GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses
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rather change of society. For example‚ after World War I the people learned to communism which they believed would create a equal system for workers and accessibility of food. While years after World War II they realized they needed a cleanse from Stalin and started getting rid of proof of his rule. In the 1950’s they did this by having “de-Stalinization – which combined ideological revision and slight domestic liberalization with a more proactive and optimistic strategy in the Cold War” (Lovell)
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_____________________________ Date ______________________________ Period_____________________________ 14.2 Totalitarianism‚ pages 440-445 Guiding Question: What are the key traits of a totalitarian state? 1. What aspects of Soviet life did Stalin control? Totalitarianism- a government that takes total‚ centralized‚ state control over every aspect of public and private life. 2. What are 5 characteristics of a totalitarian leader? 3. What role does Police Terror play in a totalitarian
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8/13/14 Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was born on December 18‚ 1879‚ in Gori‚ Georgia. Stalin was the Soviet Union dictator for over two decades. Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party. When Vladimir Lenin died Stalin took power as the Soviet Dictator. Stalin’s Red Army helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalins’ birth name is Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He changed his name later on in his life he changed his name to Joseph Stalin‚ Stalin meaning man
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Stalin had worked his way up within the party and would become dictator for 25 years until he died. While he was the leader he was ruthless and would cause the deaths of millions of people. In order to just become the leader of the Soviet Union Stalin played Zinoviev‚ Trotsky‚ who I for some reason feel got the short end of the stick with Stalin‚ and Kamenev against each other and this led him to be the undisputed leader of the the Communist party and dictator. Economically Stalin did not
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D4 Why was Stalin able to defeat his political rivals so easily in the years 1924–29? The main contenders to Stalin in the struggle for power were: Bukharin‚ Trotsky‚ Zinoviev and Kamenev who all played a significant role in the success of Stalin as the leader of the Communist Party. The main reasons‚ however‚ include Stalin’s political position‚ Stalin’s manipulation of the Party machine and Stalin’s exploitation of the internal divisions of the Party. One reason as to why Stalin succeeded Lenin
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In 1928‚ Joseph Stalin became one of the world’s most antagonistic leaders. During the period that Stalin was in control of mother Russia‚ he transformed the Soviet Union into a modern super power. He did this by modernizing the Russian economy with his Five Year Plans. Stalin’s Five Year Plans were designed to strengthen the U.S.S.R’s economy and make the nation self-sufficient. This proved successful in industrializing Russia and greatly increasing industrial output which improved the economy.
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