Post WWl, Russia was still not industrialized, suffering economically and politically and in no doubt in need of a leader after Lenin’s death. “His successor, Joseph Stalin, a ruthless dictator, seized power and turned Russia into a totalitarian state where the government controls all aspects of private and public life.” Stalin showed these traits by using methods of enforcement, state control of individuals and state control of society. The journey of Stalin begins now.
The Soviet Union in Russia used violence to govern their people by exiling or exucuting the bourgeois. The Bourgeois, during that time, had major influence on Russia because of their status, power and wealth. Stalin was the ringleader, as he controlled the population through his swordsman called the KGB. When the Soviet Union was in power twenty million innocent Russain citizans died, and for the people who survivied they lived in famion, fear and fatigue. Therefore, because Stalin killed over twenty million people for his lust of power, Russia was governed by
Research question: "Was Stalin's Great Terror in the late 1930s driven by a fear of foreign infiltration?" This investigation focuses on the late 1930s when the state-orchestrated purges were most intense. This investigation studies the purge of foreign elements who might betray the state during war. The purge of the Red Army and the intelligence apparatus is analysed in relation to the threat of these organisations being penetrated by foreign countries. The Kulak Operation is analysed in relation to the threat of foreign countries encouraging rebellion amongst kulaks.
After WW2 ended there were two major superpowers in the world that included the U.S and Russia (also referred to as the soviet union). To help you better understand communism and Capitalism and why they don’t go together very well let's look at the political views in the world today. Socialism- Socialism is a concept that individuals should not have ownership of land, capital (money), or industry, but rather the whole community collectively owns and controls property, goods, and production. Ideally, in this system all share equally in work and the fruits of their labor.
Although Russia won, many Russian civilians and soldiers died (“Joseph Stalin – Powerful Communist Ruler”). After World War 2, Stalin continued to dictate. Various examples of this were the initiation of purges, executions and exiles to labour camps to rid him of any opposition or other influences (“Joseph
Stalin and Hitler: Similarities and Differences Stalin and Hitler emerged at the time when political and economic instability had crippled the USSR and Germany. They began making improvements which encouraged their people to believe that prosperous times await them. This notion would unfortunately turn out as an illusion. Both figures would eventually rule by decree. Despite treading on different paths of ruling, both figures still find some commonalities.
Tension existed between the Soviet Union and the West as far back as 1885 during the Panjdeh incident. At this time the competition between Britain and Russia in Afghanistan was great and war appeared imminent. Furthermore, after the First World War, the Allies immediately supported the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War, laying the groundwork for high tensions between the Soviet Union and the West for the next one hundred years. When Joseph Stalin came into power, he enormously elevated these tensions through his take over of Eastern Europe, which the West saw as an attempt to spread Communism. Indeed, by 1949 all Eastern European governments, except that of Yugoslavia, were run by hard-line Stalinist regimes, causing a great amount of fear in the Capitalist world as they saw Communism as threatening every aspect of their society.
People didn’t like Truman because they thought he was unfit to be FDR’s successor. Acheson’s plan to deal with the Soviet Union was to advocate containment policy. Stalin wanted a friendly gov’t on its borders in Eastern Europe while the US wanted to pursue their economic interests and domination abroad.
The quote I decided to pick was “power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts absolutely (Lord Action).” This quote is describing how that if someone is given too much power they will abuse it for their benefit. I agree with this quote because it has been proven all throughout history. Most communist leaders have been known to abuse their power for their benefit. They do this because they have absolute power over there people so that can mold them in any way they want.
Through the folds of history, the phrase “the end justifies the means” has appeared often in an attempt for leaders to degrade their terrible acts and exaggerate their achievements that resulted. In the late 1800s, during the repressive and absolute rule of Stalin, many Russian citizens argued however, that Stalin did not justify his end with his means. The death of tens of thousands of Russian citizens from both execution and starvation, which were a direct result from his goals of a perfect communist utopian society, is not an act that can be ignored when considering his ultimately ‘good’ goals of pulling Russia out of poverty and stagnant economic and political growth. Joseph Stalin was able to greatly boost the Soviet Unions economy by instituting the 5-year plans with a resulting goal of rapid industrialization, and by instituting collectivization. Joseph Stalin ruled with an iron fist.
Another myth was busted, that Hitler took power over by fear and force. Anti-Jewish and anti-Bolshevik speechifying played the German public well for the benefit of Hitler. Germans felt humiliated by defeat and bankrupt by recession, and Hitler blamed “the Jews” for both. Unlike Stalin, Hitler did not make a habit of murdering his closest allies. Nazis party never experienced the purges of the Stalin’s.
Investigation: Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany through what have been called the most horrible Genocide in all Human history. Hitler was appointed as Chancellor on 30 January 1933. During this time, he put together a series of policies, attacks, crimes against humanity, and a World War that would change the way the world thinks about things forever. He was a very firm believer in a dictatorship and hated even the thought of a democracy, he executed anyone that had differing opinions from him. He was responsible for the murder of 6 million plus Jews during the time of January 1933-May 1945.
Adolf Hitler is branded with the uprising of the Holocaust and this gives much of the world the belief that he was evil and that he killed millions of people. While he was responsible for the actions of the Final Solution, did he not alleviate the incredible economic crisis that Germany was under? The country was inflated and this is why Hitler suggested that the country switch to a dictatorship. People also have the belief that Hitler ran all of the concentration camps and that he was responsible for the undertaking of these particular domains, however; it was not Hitler who was in charge, but his SS leader. Hitler did see the Jewish people as impure and in a sense evil, only because during this time, communism was a huge threat to germany
He begins with the statement on how many people are happy with the achievements of socialism has achieved, but one class was not happy (Fordham University). This class was known as the gentry, Stalin described them as follows, "These gentry were guided in their evaluation of the achievements of the workers and collective farmers not by the interests of the people, who applauded every such achievement, but by the interests of their own wretched and putrid faction, which had lost all contact with the realities of life” (Fordham University). Next speeches by the gentry were analyzed, Fordham University States, “At the Seventeenth Party Congress, Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky made repentant speeches, praising the Party and extolling its achievements to the skies. But the congress detected a ring of insincerity and duplicity in their speeches” “Speeches were also made at the Seventeenth Congress by the Trotskyites, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who lashed themselves extravagantly for their mistakes, and eulogized the Party no less extravagantly for its achievements.” By the writing of Stalin, it seemed that this group of individuals were plain
Contrary to popular belief Stalin killed far fewer people through violence, the majority of people who died during the time Stalin was in power died
