One of the most murderous dictators in history‚ Joseph Stalin. The “man of steel” was a ruthless dictator who controlled his people through violence and fear. He was born in December in Georgia‚ to the name of Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili.Growing up Joseph was bullied by others at school‚ and was constantly endured beatings from his alcoholic father. his mother was very involved in religion and hoped that her son would be too. She sent him away to become a priest‚ instead on his journeys he
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By 1905‚ a revolution was immanent‚ Tsar’s power was to be challenged and the reasons for this are to be laid out here in this essay. Was the Tsar’s non-reformist attitude solely to blame or was the nature of Tsardom destined to destroy itself? We need to look at the foundations of the revolution in order to fully understand this and make an informed response to these questions. The foundations are laid out into five main parts‚ including short and long-term factors. The two main long-term factors
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this lag in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us!" Josef Stalin 1931‚ this quote sums up Stalin’s desire to modernize the Soviet Union. Stalin attempt to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of five year plans had various outcomes on the people‚ economy and politics in the country. The results of Stalin’s policies where mixed economically they where great‚ but politically and socially they had major flaws. Stalin increased the amount of heavy industry and the production of raw materials
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Joseph Stalin‚ Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler were three of these leaders. Even though they assumed power legally‚ they where totalitarian leaders.They had positive and negative reflects during their rule. Russia‚ Italy‚ and Germany were just some of the countries that were affected. Joseph Stalin took over leadership after Lenin. His rise was of terror and brutality since he was right under Lenin when he took over. For twenty years he continued a dictatorial leadership.He was not interested
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov‚ or Vladimir Lenin as he is more popularly known‚ was a well-known communist revolutionary in Russia who went on to be one of the most dominant revolutionary leaders. Many historians agree that Lenin is one of the most influential political leaders in history. The disagreement among historians is most likely to concern just how Lenin became as influential as he did. Some will argue it was his upbringing‚ others believe it is the tragedies he faced in his early life and some
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industrialization of the USSR was a major altering time in the history of the Soviet Union. During this time‚ Joseph Stalin used several means to rapidly industrialize the country. Some of these means did not take any one else’s perspective into consideration and Stalin did not care if he hurt one’s feelings or not. Having the USSR undertake a massive push toward industrialization would only mean that they would become a communist state. One of the ways that Stalin used to industrialize the Soviet
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To what extent was the Soviet Union a totalitarian state by 1939? The term ’totalitarianism’ emerged in the 1920s and ’30s‚ to describe the dictatorial regimes which appeared at that time in Germany and the USSR. The Soviet Union was undoubtedly totalitarian by the late 1930s. However‚ Stalin’s power was anything but absolute up until that time. It took the Great Terror‚ the cult of personality and two decades of political patronage to put him in a position where he could abandon the pretences
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Within the period 1894-2005‚ Lenin has been the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR. How valid is this statement? It can be argued that Lenin was the most significant leader of Russia and the USSR due to his revolutionary ideas‚ such as the implementation of socialist reforms‚ his New Economic Policy in 1921 and the transformation of the Bolshevik faction to the Communist Part of the Soviet Union leading to a huge Marxist-Leninist movement in the USSR. However‚ when assessing the ‘significance’
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Adolf Hitler & Jozef Stalin were clearly the most notorious men of the 20th Century. Each man impacted history far beyond their mortal lives‚ and as similar as they may seem‚ there were distinct differences between them‚ their politics and their methods. Hitler rose to power legally‚ although very shortly thereafter‚ with the burning down of the German Parliament building‚ the Reichstag‚ he imposed a sort of martial law and his reign of terror could then begin in earnest. His National Socialist
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Goodbye Lenin movie is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It describes a loyal communist single mother Christiane Kerner who suffers two painful events that affects her life‚ first her husband Robert run away to the West and never came back. ‚ Leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children’s‚ Ariane and Alex‚ by herself. Second event is Months before the fall of the Berlin wall 1989. There was a revolution against the
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