of government which deliberately uses terror for ‘social control’: ‘It is a reign not an

anarchy’ (Edwards 1979 175). The aim is to control society through fear: ‘The most

important mechanism of a terror is not the killing of people, but the threatening of

Over the last hundred years terror has been used by states such as Germany and

Russia to either to enforce governmental rule or to create a country free of

imperfection. This essay will cover where how and how effectively terror has been

used to influence and change states and races over the last hundred years.

After Hitler’s rise to power, his New Order in Germany introduced

measures to deal with Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians and other ‘racial

The Red Terror in Russia differs from the genocide in Germany. Hitler strove to

‘reshape the human composition of an entire continent’ (Mazower 1998 163) bringing

German speaking people back to the Fatherland. In Russia the newly instated

government used terror to maintain the recent change in the state. Terror was used to

nation. A secret police force was established much like the Cheka and the SS as the

German resettlement. ‘Having made a sharp distinction between cultures, the SS still

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