... as Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitrii Shostakovich were denounced for "neglect of ideology and subservience to Western influence". The attacks extended to scientists and philosophers and continued until after Stalin's death in 1953. Stalin increased the size of the Kremlin bureaucracy: commissariats, commissions, and committees regimented and disciplined every area of society and economy. He also abandoned Lenin's idea ... , arrests, and deportations to labor camps touched virtually every family. Former rivals Zinovyev, Kamenev, and Bukharin admitted to crimes against the state in show trials ...

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... and encouraged praise and admiration. And, of course, punished anybody who spoke out against him, who did not extol his praises, with death or inevitable death in the gulags*. But without the successes of the five year plans, where would Russia have been? There was only evidence that the ... dirty, and unimaginably hungry. They slaved away every day, with neither rest nor medical supervision. A huge proportion of Gulag inmates simply starved to death during their imprisonment. People were treated like machines, with none of their basic human needs attended to. Stalin used these Gulags as...

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... effectively, and for the first few 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 ... and Stalin died in 1953 (Modern). Stalin left a great mark on Russia. His idea of single party supremacy lasted a long time after his death, and the effects of his reforms are still evident in Russia today. Stalin did improve Russia's industrial system, but he had a negative effect on...

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... party apparatus, becoming in April 1922 general secretay of the ruling Communist Party, a post which he subsequently built up into the most powerful in the country. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Kamenev and Zinoviev governed the party. During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of ... basic medical services. Campaigns were carried out against malaria, typhus and cholera. Moreover, the number of doctors was increased as rapidly as facilities and training would permit; and death and infant mortality rates stea...

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... Opposition. Lenin was the stabilizer between the two groups. He hoped there could be collective rule in order to prevent a split within the Party. Lenin's death seemed to be the starting point of the rise of factionalism within the party. Lenin had doubts about both Right and Left. At the end of 1922 ... on the long train journey to the Caucasus and on the evening of 21 January, at the station in Tiflis, he found out about Lenin's death. He telegraphed to the Kremlin asking when is the funeral. Stalin replied that the funeral will take place on the 26th so Trotsky could not have ... Zi...

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... where loyal to him and had the same views and fire the people who he didn't like. This would help him take partial control of the country after Lenin's death. Right before Lenin's death in 1924 Lenin wrote a political testament, publicly asking for Stalin's removal from his post of Secretary General. Usually a statement like this from such a respected leader would ruin a person ... . He blamed Yezhov for getting carried away. Stalin has cleared his name once again, and regained the trust of the Soviet people. Things didn't end there, they continued to Stalin's death, but after 1938 thing...

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... was neither extreme left nor right wing, and could therefore cover both sides of the party, gaining him a wide-based group of supporters. After Lenin's death in January 1924, the main struggle for power began amongst the seven man Politburo. This consisted of Stalin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Kamenev, Tomsky and ... by Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev forming a "troika- against him. There were many influences on the power for struggle that largely started after Lenin's death, although it had been in existence whilst he was still alive. It appears that during his life Lenin had purposefully...

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... The Soviet Union was 50-100 years industrially behind major European nation-states and even Western nation-states before Stalin's emergence as the leader of the Soviet Union. Upon Lenin's death, Stalin assumed political power is wanting to transform the USSR into a communist nation-state and also wanting the Soviet Union to industrialize. Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet ... Mussolini's plans of conquering them. It was easy for Mussolini because they had the equipment to conquer Abyssinia. They bombed them; used chemical weapons and mustard gas that caused the death of quar...

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... overall most succeeded. A long term consequence of the abdication of the Tsar was that Joseph Stalin came to be the head of government. This followed the death of Vladimir Lenin on January 21th, 1924. After his death there was a struggle for power between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin proved himself to be a more capable politician and won. Stalin had an obsession ... millions of soldiers died on both German and Russian sides. Although Stalin improved Russia's economy and increased the amount of workers and production, his brutal way of leading meant the death of millions of Rus...

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Introduction No conflict, neither in size nor in scope, is comparable to the Eastern Front, 1941-45. It was the deadliest theatre of war in history causing the death of over 30 million people. This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. ... contrast, the Wermacht's harsh treatment of POW's worked against them. 58% of all captured POW's, died in German hands . Blitzkrieg was reliant on mass surrender. Facing death if captured, many Russian soldiers fought to the death. The valian...

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... Tsar's, were autocratic and cruel. He was determined to make the Russian Empire into a Communist State and a great world power. There were two problems for Stalin to solve after Lenin's death; the peasants were not producing enough food to feed the Soviet Union to enable investment in industry, which was not growing fast enough. Lenin had achieved power by force rather ... power by giving top jobs to his own followers and friends. Stalin's own secretary caught him eavesdropping the conversations of his own colleagues on the Kremlin telephone network. Before his death, in 1922 he had wri...

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... Russia, though had Stalin not been a member of the Bolshevik central committee, had Russia not been in economic depression, had it not been for World War I, or Lenin's illness and death, Stalin would not have been successful. He was underestimated by his opposition, who were not united against him and he had the support of the working class of Russia, all ... great friends. However, Lenin saw that Stalin was not the best thing for Russia and, in late 1922, wrote his last testament, to be read on the event of his death. Lenin suffered three more strokes and passed away on Jan 21, 1924. T...

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... communists then targeted the Russian Orthodox Church. They seized most religious properties and turned them into offices and museums. Priests and other religious leaders were all killed or tortured to death in prison camps. Stalin was a ruthless man. His dictatorship led to many violations of human rights. Lenin had started the slave labor camp, but Stalin expanded it literally by a lot ... . After Stalin took charge, the death rate was extraordinary. Stalin knew that his policies would cause starvation, but he did nothing about it. Instead, he turned it into a political weapon by delibe...

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... the USSR. Stalin abused the little power he had to start with in order to 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 being scornfully ... positioning many people throughout the party, no matter how young or inexperienced, for the sole purpose of supporting him. An excellent example of his cruelty was in 1924, regarding the death of Lenin. Lenin was a popular leader, ...

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... . There were people in our world history that aspired greatness by intimidating and scaring people into following them. One prime example is Joseph Stalin. Stalin used any means necessary, including death, to achieve his goals of becoming a leader. Joseph Stalin considered himself God, and believed that all the people were inferior to him, just as God himself is reflected in "The ... that he believed was a threat to his "throne." He brainwashed the uneducated and poor masses into believing every thing he said. His word was law. Every infraction was punishable by death or concentration ca...

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... 15,000 unborn babies should be murdered annually. Why should the baby be condemned to death because of a crime that was committed by another person. If innocent people should be condemned to death because they are the result of the crime, then instead of imprisoning or putting death a convicted murder we should kill one of that prisoner's family members. If the woman does ... ...

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... prime ministers met in London, but it was denied again by Stalin. Roosevelt died two months later, after the Yalta conference in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was declared that his death was due to a "brain hemorrhage". Many rumors were circling about, but the most important and the most believed was the Roosevelt had committed suicide, realizing what a grave mistake he had ... person with higher education (than high school) that did not "seem" to agree with the concepts of communism (let alone talk or write against the government) was immediately put to death. Freedom is took for granted a...

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... , the vague resolutions would ultimately lead to the increasing tension between the powers, with the main focus on the future of Poland. When Harry S. Truman took over office after the death of Roosevelt, he was both unprepared and ill-informed for the problems that he was now involved with. Truman disliked Stalin and felt no desire to appease the tyrant. These ... atomic bomb to the Russians. This case also led to the accusation of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were member's f the Communist Party. They were later, convicted, and sentenced to death oh April 5, 1951. Many of those convi...

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... rebels. He and his wife traveled to Spain to help the government forces. Orwell sided himself with the Spanish Trotskyists, followers of Leon Trotsky, Stalin's rival for power after Lenin's death. In Spain he experienced the same events as were going on in Russia. When the government gained control, they began to hunt down Trotskyists, they themselves being lucky to get ... . As soon as the tsar was overthrown, civil war broke out among the revolutionaries. The Bolsheviks, lead by Lenin (1870-1924) and Trotsky (1879-1940) eventually took power. Upon Lenin's death, a power struggle took p...

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Following the death of Lenin in January 1924, the Bolshevik Party was left without its Messiah. Trotsky, Lenin's brilliant accomplice and civil war hero, seemed the natural replacement. Yet, Stalin, an uninspirational bureaucrat ... power was further enhanced during the "Lenin Enrolment" (1924- 26) when the party bureaucracy gained 300,000 new members, all appointed by the Secretariat under Stalin's control. Thus by Lenin's death, and more so by 1926, Stalin had huge support and loyalty in the party. The huge increase in the size of the Bolshevik Party also changed its character, from an ......

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Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was a Russian political leader, who was the acknowledged leader of the USSR from 1929 until his death in 1953. Stalin helped to covert communism in the USSR from a free revolutionary movement into a severe, bureaucratic governmental system. He helped to turn Russia into a great industrial nation, to defeat ... Hitler in World War II. After the war he also established communist regimes through Eastern Europe. However he reigned terror and was responsible for the death and deprivation of millions of people. Stalin still remains the least known of the towering figures...

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... have complete control and do not allow people freely to oppose them. Joseph Stalin, infamous for his campaigns of terror, was totalitarian dictator of the USSR from 1941 until his death is 1953. Stalin's policy of state-organized industrialization turned his country into a powerful industrial and military power. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions ... the civil war, Stalin threw himself into organizational work and administrative tasks. Stalin gained a lot of control when he was elected secretary of the communist party in 1922. Befo...

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... army finally beat back German attacks on Moscow in the winter of 1941-1942. It was at this point that Stalin reached the height of his popularity during the war. Death Early in 1953, Stalin prepared to replace the top men in the Soviet government. Many believe he was planning another great purge or elimination of his people. On March 4, 1953 ... , the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced that Stalin had suffered a brain hemorrhage on March 1. Stalin died in Moscow on March 5, 1953. Stalinism Even after Stalin's death, many Communist governments continued to use his style of...

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... communist party. Stalin was a master publicist and his success in portraying himself as the successor to Lenin's legacy had helped him to defeat Trotsky in the power struggle following Lenin's death. Through the smokescreen of industrialisation Stalin was able to change the communist party to his advantage, removing Trotsky and the leftists from history whilst glorifying himself as the saviour of ... seemed to confirm the success of the plans because the Soviet Union would not have secured victory had it not been equipped industrially, and this view was taken until Stalin's death and th...

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... defeated with the end of World War II, the end of Soviet communism marked the triumph of democracy. This period of time is historically significant as it spaned over the death of the "Old Order" and the following battle between fascism, communism, and democracy to be the new dominant social system. Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna was a congress of ... an increased emphasis on educating and training the Russian people. Women were proclaimed to be equal to men. All were changes for the better, but by the time of Lenin's death in 1924, he had not completed all of the goal of comm...

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