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    The USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was found in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin. The USSR was shortly taken over by Joseph Stalin‚ which lasted from the 1920’s to the 1953.(DeSomma‚ 12) During the time of Stalin’s ruling the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)‚ a secret police force‚ murdered many soviet citizens and jailed many others to Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps that people were sent to if they were seen dangerous to the union. The Soviet then destroyed all owned

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    | The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | | The world’s most powerful Communist country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or otherwise known as the Soviet Union. It contained 15 republics that were controlled by a central government. Over time‚ it developed into a large industrial power that dictated all aspects of the national economy. It set levels of wages and prices‚ controlled the allocation of resources‚ and decided what would be produced and how and where goods would

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    Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? Roxanne C. Jones Politics 300‚ Section 003016 Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? ‘Do you think you are going to win?’ ‘Yes‚ yes of course.’ ‘What makes you think so? What makes you think you are going to win?’ ‘I believe we are going to win. It’s evident!’ (Panjshairi commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in an interview from the French prize-winning documentary film ‘Valley against an Empire’ by Jerome Bony and Christophe de Ponfilly

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    RUSSIA  &  THE  SOVIET  UNION  1917-­1941     TIMELINE   1917  -­‐  Bolshevik  or  ‘October’  Revolution   1917  -­‐  Treaty  of  Brest-­‐Litovsk  signed   1918  -­‐  Start  of  the  Civil  War.  ‘War  Communism’  introduced   1919  -­‐  Formation  of  ‘Comintern’     1921  -­‐  End  of  Civil  War.  Kronstadt  uprising.  Introduction  of  the  ‘NEP’.  

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    The Soviet Union and the Rule of Law How do they create laws? Soviet concept of law Soviet law was rooted in pre-revolutionary Russian law and Marxism/Leninism. Pre-revolutionary influences included Byzantine law‚ Mongol law‚ Russian Orthodox Canon law‚ and Western law. Western law was mostly absent until the judicial reform of Alexander II in 1864‚ five decades before the revolution. Despite this‚ the supremacy of law and equality before the law were not well-known concepts‚ the tsar was still

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)‚ which was established in 1922‚ was the first communist state in the world. Run by the general secretary‚ the equivalent of the position of the president in the United States‚ the communist party controlled the government‚ and the government controlled all of the industry and agriculture. Yet‚ under such strict government control‚ the Soviet Union ended in collapse in the year 1991. The main contributing factor towards the downfall of the USSR was the

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    1984 In the novel written by George Orwell‚ 1984‚ there are several similarities to the Soviet Union. One of the most important similarities is Adolph Hitler. Another very important point in 1984 is Big Brother. Big Brother is very similar to both of the leaders‚ Adolph Hitler and Stalin. During Adolph Hitler’s time‚ the government had absolute control over everything. This could also be called totalitarianism‚ which was frowned upon by 1984’s author‚ George Orwell. Hitler had complete power

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    the Soviet Union. Kennedy announced that the United States had a strong chance at achieving to go to the moon before the Soviet Union. In my point of view Kennedy’s motivation is the Soviet Union he wanted to accomplish better things than the Soviet Union. Kennedy stated that they made 45 satellites that were circling the earth and the 40 of them were "made in the United States" and that they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people more than the Soviet Union. According

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    Under the governance of Joseph Stalin since 1928 saw the Soviet Union governing a large territory especially in the Eastern Europe and raising its importance as a world wide power throughout the Cold War. The Stalin system revolutionized the Soviet Union and turned out to be the foundation for the expansion of communist persuasion into the bordering regions and territories. The Stalinist system was distinct in that; it was a solitary party system governing political assignations‚ monetary policies

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    Gorbachev‚ Perestroika and the Fall of the Soviet Union In the late 1980s‚ the Soviet Union was undergoing massive changes in its policies‚ both domestically and internationally. More and more it seemed that the Cold War was coming to a close‚ and the Soviets were certainly not winning. The exact ending of the Cold War is a matter of some contention between several historians‚ but the certain absolute end would be the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The events leading up to this collapse

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