... raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. This was partly due to Lenin's April thesis, great speeches and targeted slogans such as "Peace, Bread and Land!". Robert Service argues that Lenin made key decisions that shaped the development and formation of Russia, without which, the USSR may have never been formed. He states "Lenin did make ... support the Bolshevik seizure of power. Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, consolidating his newly gained power. Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the end of October...

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... connecting to the Mediterranean and the threat of a communist takeover in Greece. In a speech on March 12, 1947, Truman said that the fall of Greece would lead to tumbling dominoes across the map. By now sixty-six percent of Americans saw Soviets as aggressive, compared to the thirty-three percent two years earlier. Truman acquired the basic idea for this new ... being communist, the American people supported him for his fearless assaults against a disloyal government run by Democrats. McCarthy's reign continued until January of 1954 when he attacked Secretary of State Robert Stevens. T...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... May 7 (shortly before Stalin's dispatch to the area); the next month Stalin and his subordinate Yegorov failed to isolate the outnumbered Polish forces, and the Poles managed a fighting retreat back across the border. Later, when the campaign reached central Poland, Stalin ignored orders to assist the general in charge of the operation (Mikhail Tukhachevsky) with his drive on Warsaw and instead ... generation that included such leaders as Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Fear instilled by a political secret police formed an essential part of the system called Stalinism. "The Great...

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... if it was longer than five years." Dmitry Likhachev a survivor of the purges said, "many had diarrhea with blood." This shows the extent of horror, which occurred during the purges. Robert Conquest wrote, "Stalin's war had a higher death toll than total deaths for all countries in World War I." Author and dramatist Edvard Radzinsky discards claims that Stalin was very fearful, and ... because a thief told him not to go down into the hold. Dmitry says, "the only fear that I have is a of a return to the past." The purges ignited panic and fear across the peoples of the Soviet Union. Stali...

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• Grade Level: High School