Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were both very similar and still quite different. Each of these great leaders wished to transform his country into something new and powerful. Though their methods of rule were not the same‚ they each were extremely effective leaders and had enormous impacts on his own country. Russia‚ before Stalin‚ could absolutely be considered as being a weak and peasant country. China‚ before Mao Zedong‚ was attempting‚ but failing‚ to modernize efficiently under Nationalism.
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In late 1950s and during 1960s‚ the Soviet-US tension started to reach its peak. After Khrushchev ended the speech with saying “We will bury you‚” the Communist tried to proof that the era of capitalism over‚ which means that people are reached to the final destination as Karl Marx (a first person to come up the idea of the communism) stated in the communist Manifesto. The Cold War could be seen as the time that dictatorship of the proletariat tried to spread the communism and become a real communist
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The USSR and Stalin 1924-53 How successful was Stalin in solving Russia’s economic problems? What were Russia’s economic problems? Stalin believe rapid expansion of heavy industry was essential to deal with evident attach from west Industrial workers were the communists; greatest allies Peasants: enemies of socialism Industrial: Peasant ration Greater it was‚ greater communist state would be The Five Year Plans for industry Stalin = no economic experience Plans designed to overcome
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Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин‚ pronounced [ˈjosʲɪf vʲɪsɐˈrʲonəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈstalʲɪn]; born Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili‚ Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი‚ pronounced [iɔsɛb bɛsariɔnis d͡ze d͡ʒuɣaʃvili]; 18 December 1878[1] – 5 March 1953)‚ was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917‚ Stalin was appointed general secretary
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Joseph Stalin dominated the soviet scene to a degree unequaled in the United States by Truman or even Roosevelt. Stalin was born in the Russian empire’s southern province of Georgia in 1879. He began studying for the priesthood but was thrown out of seminary for revolutionary activity and some believe because of laziness. After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution he climbed to prominence in the new ruling communist party thanks to his administrative skills and adroit political maneuvering and building
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Joseph Stalin‚ stood at the helm of the Kremlin for a majority of the Cold War‚ from 1953-1964. Khrushchev spent a great part of his time in power solidifying foreign relations and working toward the domestic unification of the Soviet Union‚ which Stalin had shredded. During his time devoted to the outer parts of the Soviet Union‚ Khrushchev dealt with many people wanting a life with the western virtues which were infringing upon other parts of the USSR. To counter this issue‚ Khrushchev built
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vilification of Stalin in his address to the Twentieth Party Congress was meticulous in detailing precise failures of his predecessor’s rule. Above all‚ Khrushchev strongly elaborated on Stalin’s extremities‚ especially the cult of personality that he had built up over the years. The speech also in turn attacked ‘Stalinist repressions‚ arrests‚ terror and murders…[and] for bungling foreign affairs and mishandling the war’. Despite this‚ Khrushchev was cautious in limiting his other criticisms of Stalin‚ and
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STALIN. A GROUP OF CORE SUPPORTERS: Huge numbers of people‚ form those at the top right down to interrogators‚ torturers‚ guards and executioners‚ were willing to carry out Stalin’s orders. Local party bosses – little Stalins – often initiated their own terrors from below. Stalin ruled unchallenged with the help of his supporting clique – Molotov‚ Kaganovich‚ Mikoyan‚ Zhdanov‚ Voroshilov‚ Bulganin‚ Beria‚ Malenkov and Khrushchev. POLICE CONTROL BASED UPON TERROR: Five Year Plans for industry
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land. Yet‚ there were 3 main reasons why this project failed. Khrushchev had discouraged the use of the highly popular and efficient crop cycle and fallow land techniques. Furthermore‚ he did not provide these farms with the basic tools and materials to grow crops. He did not even provide them with fertilizer. This caused much of the farmland to be ruined and in 1960 half of all the farmland designated for this new
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04/29/2002 Saddam vs. Stalin Since the beginning of the world‚ there has been an ongoing cycle of tyrannical leaders that have ruled their lands with an evil hand. Since the beginning of the twentieth century we have seen perhaps the deadliest dictators of them all. Stalin’s regime in the 1930’s and 1940’s in the Soviet Union and Saddam’s regime in the present day Iraq share an exceptionally strong similarity. In order to understand the similarities between Stalin and Saddam‚ we must go
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