... to be free from the Soviet domination. This time, the revolution was not simply form by the workers; the Polish Communist party was also involved because they refused to accept the Russian general Rokossovsky as the Polish Minister for Defense. Khrushchev sought for solution ... to power, 1917, with coercive tactics. He would do anything to ensure that he would win the war and protect the position of the Communist party, even to sacrifice the life of his people. In order to obtain this purpose, it was necessary to enforce strict and absolute discipline was ... as his chief instrument to ...

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... of consumer goods occurred. The First Five-Year Plan also called for transforming Soviet agriculture from predominantly individual farms into a system of large state collective farms. The Communist regime believed that collectivization would improve agricultural productivity and would produce grain reserves sufficiently large to feed the growing urban labor force. The anticipated surplus was to pay for ... in the Congress of Soviets in November 1935 after several months of publicity and comment. Article 126 negated the entire document, though, for it made the Communist Party the only leg...

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... had to retain the loyalty of his supporters and to improve the economic conditions of the Russian people. At the same time he needed to strengthen the control of the Communist Party over the Empire. Lenin had solutions for these problems; the replacement of War Communism by a new Economic Policy and the appointment of Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the ... Communist Party. The first solution was a temporary retreat from Communism; but it was the second solution that he came to regret. War Communism was brutal, inefficient and total. During the desperate period ... , Stalin took ...

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... the new government developed in many parts of the country. Armed uprisings broke out and grew into civil war. Stalin was active on the southern military front. In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. They then began to rebuild the war-torn country. At first, Lenin and the ... , Stalin started a elimination of most of the old Bolsheviks associated with Lenin. During the next few years, he killed anyone who threatened his power. Stalin also executed thousands of other Communist Party members, includ...

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... . 1964-82 We can see their beginnings during the Stalin era which I"ll touch on somewhat. Past: With Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin assumed the head of the Soviet Communist Party. The reforms initiated by Lenin were continued and enhanced at the benefit of the state and in time became completely totalitarian. Here is where we see a parallel of Stalin to ... the prominent figures of his new regime were basically products of the great purges of Stalin. They all gained power and party positions at a time when it was beneficial for them. This is the era in which we would see the commun...

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... could be done to strengthen the shaky pro-American governments in Western Europe, those governments might fall under the control of rapidly growing domestic communist parties."" In February of 1948, a coup in Czechoslovakia, taken over by Stalin's allies, abolished any opposition preventing the Marshall plan from going ... powers in pursuit of international goals through agencies such as a National Security Council (NSC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The most important anti-communist alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed on April 4, 1949. NATO formed...

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Joseph Stalin Essay Joseph Stalin was the head of the communist party and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. He came to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin. He ... challenge him as the absolute ruler. The communist party was the only party allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. The party was run by Stalin and he demanded complete obedience from the party members. The Communist party was made to serve Stalin's needs and not those of the communist party. Stalin made his party seem like it was democratic and like ... it suited the peoples needs by compelling them to vote in ele...

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... fear of being expelled from power. This ensured there were only the 7 Politburo members who were allowed any say in the Party's organising. A centralised party was, traditionally, against the Communist theory, as the idea of it being dominated by civil servants and paperwork did not appeal to the revolutionaries. Despite this, ... the struggle for power is that there was not one clear leader after Lenin's death. Whilst in power Lenin had controlled the Communist Party with his forceful personality and original ideas, leaving no room for any other leader. He chaired the meetings of the Po...

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... - Now days the Truman Doctrine is thought to have become an "ideological shield - by which America could explain any threats to the Western system as communist inspired not as a fault of the system. However the Soviet's saw this as a very aggressive move. They also thought the Marshall Plan was a ... Russian response to the Marshall plan while Cominform was the response to the Truman Doctrine. Cominform was designed to strengthen the ties between the European communist countries. Comecon was the economic portion of Cominform and was aimed at strengthening Cominform. These policies led to...

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... fleeing the city allowing the Bolsheviks a comparatively straight forward take over of the Winter palace, where the Provisional Government was. This secured the Communist victory. Trotsky also played a major part in organizing the Civil War, which secured the Communists victory against the Whites, and secured the Communists ... and Civil War, as his formation of the Red army resulted in the success of the Bolshevik party, and furthermore secured the Communist state in Russia. He was also the only leading Communist who could rival Lenin as a speaker and writer about revolutionary ideas. H...

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... month after the invasion, the German army encountered little resistance and penetrated 600 kilometers into Soviet territory. Stalin and the Communist Party, while frantically trying to develop the inadequate Soviet war machine, issued a direct order to rural Soviets stating, " the Communist Party order the immediate mobilization of units of the People's Defense (Partisans) for the support of the Red Army according ... to the decree of Comrade Stalin." (Dixon 59). Aside from the Party's orders, the Partisan movement grew as a result of the German treatment of Soviet population. ... a rur...

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... , largely, through emotional appeal. Several dictators have used propaganda during wars in order to dehumanize the enemy. The Soviet propaganda promoted Marxist and Leninist ideology in order to promote the Communist Party and its leader, Stalin. This propaganda was aimed at creating an idolization of Stalin through the entire country, extolling the virtues of the new ideology of the religion of socialism ... connotations. His cult began by portraying him as a "strong," "beloved," "bold," and "genius" leader. The interaction between Stalin and children from the Communist Party became an ...

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... Plan and The purges. Indeed, this essay will show if Stalinism was necessary for Russia, for economy, for the promotion of the Communist ideology or for Stalin himself so as to intensify his own power. The costs, the success and the benefits of Stalinism shall also ... Collectivisation of the Russian farms implied the redistribution of the land to create large and more economically viable farms, which did follow perfectly the Communist ideology. However, another evidence of his ideology coming out was the "dekulakisation". One of his objectives was to destroy the Kulaks, which ... arg...

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... of the opposition. In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. After successfully removing the opposition the communist party led by Stalin launched a major revolution through the next decade that did not end until every class and member of society was ... threat. Another reason behind Stalin's decision to enforce rapid industrialisation was that Marxist society required that a socialist must be highly industrialised. As a result of this all members of the communist ...

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... its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. Stalin spoke these words in a speech to Party at a meeting in Leningrad, April 1926. "Now there stands before us a new task - the industrialization of our country. The most serious difficulties ... punishment and as system of rewards and incentives. At the time the majority of factory workers were still young and impressionable, still intoxicated by the communist theory. Many were willing to suffer a "few years of hardship for the promised land of a better society."1 Posters, signs, books and .....

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... . Yet, Stalin's rise to power was anything but effortless; one of the most important factors being that Lenin wrote a letter about Stalin to leading party members, encouraging his expulsion. Lenin could foresee Stalin's motives. This letter, however, eventually fell into Stalin's hands, and was not heard of till ... openly criticizing him. Stalin used his position as General Secretary and the immunity he gained from criticism to expel all three key Rightists from the party. One of Stalin's greatest foes in the power struggle was Trotsky. Trotsky, was by far, more favored to become leade...

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... many speeches, this was his strength in turning people for him, his speeches were his most successful form of propaganda. Being able to gain Nazi party control and gain enough supporters, proves that he was an efficient user of propaganda. Hitler also had his own minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, ... they had done. In 1922 Lenin, the leader of the communist party had a stroke. Overtime his condition got worse and he became less involved in the party's affairs. When Lenin died in January 1924, it left two men in contention for the party's leadership. These two men were Joseph Stali...

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... smuggling in banned books and for not respecting officials. A short time after leaving the seminary he joined the national Democratic Party's military wing where shortly there after the split of the party (1903) he became a follower of Lenin. In 1902 Joseph was arrested for his revolutionary actions and exiled to ... by any means necessary this involved robbing banks and government money. Lenin broke away from the social democrats in 1912 and started his own party knowing how valuable Joseph was Lenin took him in as a member of his central committee Joseph was only in the committee for ...

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... 's death in 1924 gave way to a fierce struggle for power developed among the members of the Politburo (the ruling body of the Communist Party which decided its policies) who had to choose which of them should take his place. The main contestants for the leadership in this crisis ... questioning , which representation is states the most accurate description of Stalin. Lenin wrote in his Testament: "Comrade Stalin having become Secretary [of the Communist Party] has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using the authority with...

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... years after Russia was collectivized, food production fell dramatically. Famine swept Russia, and many people starved to death. Stalin also killed nearly all of the elite members of his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). After 1930, Stalin completely forfeited his personal life for his political life. Stalin's second wife committed suicide in 1932. Without a family or close ... , and completely controlled the Russian war effort. After the war, he placed many countries under his control or influence, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and many other countrie...

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... of Stalin's manipulative tendencies, which he focused on Trotsky's colleagues. There were many arguments among those in the politburo, and during 1924 the party was in turmoil regarding the future of the soviet economy. The fiercest argument during this time was between Stalin and Trotsky regarding Trotsky's theory of ... remove possible enemies and introduce support for himself. In 1924, at the time of Lenin's death, Stalin was the mere General Secretary of the Communist Party. At the time this seemed a position of little authority, but Stalin made the most of his situation, despite bei...

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... May Day celebration where the Tsar's police began a crackdown on the organisers. Stalin escaped the police roundup and was sent to Bantum by the party for safety. Stalin was now a wanted revolutionist known as Koba. In Bantum, Stalin organised a strike, which ended in violence. Fourteen people ... arrested. He was imprisoned for one and a half years and was exiled to Siberia for three years. During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. The Mensheviks had a more traditional approach to Marxism, whilst the Bolsheviks had a mo...

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... were looking for new leadership. The citizens knew that even though Lenin said he organized his government on democratic principles that in reality the Communist party held all the power. Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among Lenin's revolutionary/ supporters. They both helped create the Soviet state. After ... Lenin died because of a stroke at age 54, these/ two men (Trotsky and Stalin) became bitter rivals for control of the Communist Party. The outcome of this/ struggle would determine the future course of the Soviet Union. Stalin, Lenin's successor/ would aim at dramatically tran...

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Gorbachev was the youngest leader the Soviet Union ever had. He was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1985. The country had suffered a lot in the last few years. So as Gorbachev came to power he had to find new solutions ... old to see the need for change and died shortly after their election. But not only the former leaders of the USSR were too old, many of the Party members where over 65! Some of them where old, loafer and sometimes corrupt and incompetent. Gorbachev tried to replace them by young, ambitious and more able man ... that was no...

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... now play its part in the modernization of Russia. Stalin also used the NKVD against leading communists. He could not tolerate any cristicism or rivalry. In December 1934, the popular Communist Party boss of Leninguard, Sergei Kirov, was coincidently killed in a car accident most likely arranged by Stalin. Nevertheless, he put the blame on several other leading communists. One by one, the ... or Trotskyists or any other type of traitor. Then, he turned to the army and the Party. One fifth of the officers of the army were arrested and disappeared, in addition to half a million Party membe...

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