2 was significant in bringing about economic change through the use of Stalin’s Five year plans. The outcome of previous wars gave Stalin the impression that in order for Russia to be successful in a war the country needed to be modernised. Stalin wanted to construct a command economy that was geared to protect them from the hostility of the west. In 1931‚ Stalin stated “We must make a good distance in 10 years. Either we do this or were crushed .” This infers that Russia was not in a position to
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the gulags. Stalin had created a dictatorship that was far from benevolent. There was little room for the intellectuals to make new discoveries and for people to think outside
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Stalin industrialism research 1. “Save as” this document in your own documents. Please type all the answers onto the sheet and then print it out for your notes at the end of the lesson. Connect: Google research What was the Stakhanovite campaign? (recap) The Stakhanovite movement began during the second 5-year plan in 1935 as a new stage of the socialist competition. The Stakhanovite movement was named after Aleksei Stakhanov‚ who had mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours (14 times his
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biographical materials. The first component of the essay to be researched was the steps that Stalin took to rise to power. Then the historiography behind each of the steps was looked into. The intentionalists and functionalists were the main schools of thought. Originally the conclusion reached
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Not only did the governments censor potentially threatening information from the media‚ they also censored information on world events from the citizens of their nation‚ too. In the novel‚ Oceania was constantly at war; however‚ the enemy is inconsistent. At the beginning‚ Eurasia is the enemy‚ and have been the enemy of Oceania for a long period of time; however‚ the enemy changes to Eastasia later on in the story. It states‚ “The very word ‘war’ has become misleading. It would probably be accurate
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Democracy or dictatorship? [pic] We all have been saying in the past and even now that even the worst democracy is better than dictatorship but the question we need to ask ourselves is that even after all the efforts made by the lawyers movement and fresh elections in pakistan have we achieved a REAL democracy? At this present time we got two mainstream parties PPP and PML(a-z) both been controlled in undemocratic ways where one person lead it and no matter what happens he/she is gonna be leader
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Plan of the Investigation How were the Purges of 1934-1938 successful in helping Stalin maintain his autocratic power? The aim of this investigation is to assess how the purges of 1934-38 helped Stalin preserve his power in the Soviet Union. In order to evaluate this‚ the investigation assesses Stalin’s role in relation to the purges‚ as well as their purpose. An analysis of this should indicate the extent to which the purges were successful‚ and their contribution to Stalin’s power. In the
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Berlin 1945 End of WWII results in a USSR domination of Eastern Europe tensions arise that lead to cold war 1949 Russia explodes first atomic device => tension with the U.S 1954 Stalin dies Khrushchev replaces him as first secretary -In effort to gain political status Khrushchev delivers a speech which denounces Stalin 1955 Warsaw pact created to counter NATO -Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Czechoslovakia‚ East Germany‚ Hungary‚ Poland‚ Romania 1962 Cuban missile crisis between U.S and USSR almost leads
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emerge The opposition for Trotsky not only held Stalin but also 2 other politicians: Lev Kamenev and G.E. Zinoviev (a leading Bolshevik who had been Lenin’s closest aide during the revolution) Together‚ the 3 formed ‘’troika’’ a group & attacked Trotsky during party meetings‚ drawing on his writings/speeches from his last years as Menshevik as a means of attacking him for disloyalty Kamenev supported Stalin after Lenin died‚ when Stalin retained his post as General Secretary There was
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the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and the Stalinist regime in the soviet Union and also to maintain their totalitarian framework on the people. Firstly the Nazis used a number of concerning capability to secure that their ‘Terror State’ worked. It was not exactly one part‚ it was a mixture that have been consolidated to verify that nobody spoke crazy against the Nazis. The Nazis used and created The SS‚ the Gestapo‚ and concentration camps One of the first thing they created to establish their power
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