... I. Matray all challenge the traditional views that blame the Soviet Union for igniting the Korean War. (p. 102) New discoveries from these documents give evidence of a civil war. Matray claims it is both an international conflict and a civil war. (p.100) Both president Sygman Rhee of South Korea and president Kim Il-Sung of North Korea were calling for a forceful unification of the peninsula ... not outright win the war, it was ended in a stalemate and the peninsula remains divided to this day. I have learned that the war was not strictly a war against communism but a civil war started ...

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... 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 of the Civil War, Lenin enforced great hardship upon the majority of peasantry of Russia-the economy relied heavily upon agriculture-by pursuing a policy of War Communism which ruthlessly enforced state control of ... farmers. Approximately 5 million died of disease and hunger. Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinovev among other party members of the left, had favoured War Communism because it had helped to win the Civil...

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... for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. He would of course have history rewritten giving him a bigger role when he becomes dictator. From 1918 to 1920 civil war broke out between the Bolsheviks (know as the Reds) and the Counter Revolutionaries (know as the Whites). The Whites wanted to take control from the Bolsheviks, and it turned ... brutal, bloody war. Stalin was giving the position Commissariat of Nationality Affairs. His job was to help decide on all emergency issues during the very difficult fist period of the civil war. Joseph was also a wa...

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... in the Bolshevik take over of the government. Within a few months, opposition to 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 others were unaware of Stalin's quiet plotting. But by the end of 1922, ... ...

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... the government, Stalin became a member of the new government's Soviet of People's Commissars, heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Stalin's position was crucial as to the result of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921 because the Bolsheviks were desperately trying to stop the terrorists from winning. The Bolsheviks triumphed so he was elected a member of the Communist Party's highest decision ... -making body, the Politburo, and the Central Committees Organisational Bureau in 1919. At the height of the Civil War, as a political commissar in the Red Army, he supervised military...

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... countries were also involved in the war such as China and Vietnam, among many others. In 1949, Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army lead the Communists to victory in a civil war against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. Losing China to the communists was a devastating blow to the United States. China was faced with the need for military and economic ... ...

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... Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It was written to warn the world of the dangers of totalitarian regimes. In 1939, he traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War, where he witnessed firsthand the atrocities committed by fascist politics. The rise to power of dictators such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet inspired ... ...

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... II. This was due to the shortage of labor, this moved blacks from the south to urban north cities during these times to find better jobs. One great step for civil rights was Executive Order 8802. Executive Order 8802 stated, "All departments and agencies of the Government of the United States concerned with vocational and training programs for defense production shall ... ...

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... a number of changes in military and political affairs of Western Europe.Niccolo Machiavelli born on May 3 1469 and spent his childhood in Florence of the Medici. In 1498 he joined a civil service under the republican regime of Piero Soderini. He also served as Secretary to the Ten of Liberty and Peace and was secretary to the Nine for Militia and Second ... ...

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... Japan sign The Anti-Comintern Pact, which had many secret military strategies directed against Russia. Hitler disguised thousands of airmen, artillerymen, and tank crew to voluntarily fight in the Spanish Civil War. This was the first time Stalin and Hitler met on the battlefield. Hitler then waged war on Poland with the consent from Stalin. Poland is another Slavic nation and ... ...

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... redistributed, some as collective farms. Factories, mines, banks and utilities were all taken over by the state. The Russian Orthodox Church was disestablished. There was opposition and this led to a civil war in 1918 between the Mensheviks (Whites) and the Bolsheviks (Reds). Despite being supported by Britain and the U.S.A. the whites were defeated after a bitter struggle. From 1919 to 1921 famine ... ...

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... went against all ideas of Bolsheviks, which made them the direct rivals. Then there were the smaller groups such as Social Revolutionaries, Cadets, and the Old Privileged Class. In 1918 a civil war came about between the Bolsheviks; who were titled the reds, and a group of parties such as Social Revolutionaries/Cadets/ and the Old Privileged Class; this group was titled the ... ...

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... himself to survive camp while others rely on various things to pull them through. Shukhov survives the prison camp by observing various acts of humanity and in doing so stays civil. For example, early in the book, the reader learns that Shukhov often gets up early in the morning so that he may have a little time to himself and may even ... ...

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... . He had responsibilities such as issuing decrees, handling affairs of Russia's minority nationalities, and helping draw up the first Soviet constitutions of 1918 and 1924. After the outbreak of the civil war in June 1918 he acted as an inspector general for the Red Army and as a political commissar. In 1921, he initiated the conquest for an independent Georgia. These actions ... ...

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... ended on a sour note, as nobody made a solid agreement. Both sides were to blame for this and Stalin and Truman's anger for each other grew. Western intervention in the Russian Civil War was very bittersweet. They tried to create an environment that everyone love but they stepped on a few toes. The Allies did not want the stores that tehy had sent ... ...

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... carrying out order for Lenin and became his most trusted lieutenants. Stalin wrote articles in newspapers such as "The Star" and "The Truth," to spread communist influence. During the Russian civil war, Stalin received the order of the Soviet Banner, which was the highest military decoration in all of Russia. The Russian Social-Democratic Party changed its name to the Russian ... ...

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... more militant Bolshevik party led by Lenin. Stalin became a devout follower of Lenin and was arrested and exiled many times for his political involvement. After the Bolshevik victory in 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. Before his death, Lenin ... ...

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... secretary, covers the life of Stalin between 1921 and 1926. Stalin was elected in 1922, general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union. In the forth chapter, the civil wars of Stalin, the period from 1927 to 1939 is covered. The fifth chapter, the marshal and generalissimo, gives an overview during the period from 1939 to 1944. In 1941 ... ...

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... Stalin. Lenin considered Stalin to be rude, and too tyrannical with his power. Trotsky also had immense amounts of experience as well. He had been Minister of War during the Civil War and played a leading role in the 1905 and the 1917 revolutions. His background and heritage were also noble: he was the son of a rich Jewish farmer. However, he was ... ...

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... 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, after the revolution in 1917, the Party quickly discovered that coping with the complexities of government obliged it to ... ...

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... to vote in elections. Since there was only one political party, the voters were forced to vote for Stalin. He brought in a constitution in 1936 which was proclaimed to emphasize civil rights but also to emphasize the obligations of citizens to their ruler. Anyone who disagreed with Stalin was taken by the secret police and put in jails or killed. This ... ...

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... of housing, health, transport and living standard in general. Another problem that had occurred before the reign of Gorbachev was in Afghanistan where Soviet troops had attacked to stop the civil war. It led to the death of 15000 Soviet troops. But that was not the main problem, it also led to the hostility between the USSR and much of the ... ...

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... in the Donets Basin (in present-day Ukraine). He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). He returned to Ukraine, which had become a union republic of the USSR, and worked as the assistant manager of a Donets coal mine. In 1929 Khrushchev moved to ... ...

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