... limited capitalism. Peasants were allowed to keep their surpluses after taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' proposed collectivisation policy in 1928. (21) Although agricultural production increased, the standard of living was lowered and hardship was ... widespread. Forcible collectivisation was pursued until 1935. This again shows the people's general opposition to communist policies. Collectivisation failed to meet ag...

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... limited capitalism. Peasants were allowed to keep their surpluses after taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' proposed collectivisation policy in 1928. (21) Although agricultural production increased, the standard of living was lowered and hardship was ... widespread. Forcible collectivisation was pursued until 1935. This again shows the people's general opposition to communist policies. Collectivisation failed to meet ag...

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... limited capitalism. Peasants were allowed to keep their surpluses after taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' proposed collectivisation policy in 1928. (21) Although agricultural production increased, the standard of living was lowered and hardship was ... widespread. Forcible collectivisation was pursued until 1935. This again shows the people's general opposition to communist policies. Collectivisation failed to meet ag...

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... It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World ... be skewed. The Russians claim, and have always claimed, that Stalin's motives were purely defensive. Stalin's wished to create a buffer zone of Communist states around him to protect Soviet Russia from the capitalist West. In this sense, his moves were not aggressive at all -- they were truly ... f...

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... , Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky. The truth is that a power struggle took place between them. After 1921 anyone who stood up to Lenin and the Communist Party was treated as an outlaw. Inside the party Lenin banned arguments and splits. The Central Executive Committee ruled the party. Inside it a small group ... Another group, the Orgburo, was responsible for organisation, and the Secretariat carried out the decisions, making sure that the Government, Sovnarkom, did what the communist Party told it to do. Lenin was Chairman of Sovnarkom and appointed leading members of the party to it. In 1924...

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... 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 ... invaded Baltic countries suich as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Stalin tried to destroy the middle classes in these countries. Stalin set up Communist governments and joined them to the Soviet Union. Reign Of Terror Under the czars, the Russian secret police had often arrested revolutionists and ... the o...

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... of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly stable western democracy. However, East Germany was established as a Stalin-style communist state. The East German government was formed into a centralized and dictatorial regime. Free speech and opinions against the regime were not tolerated, and artistic and intellectual programs were strongly controlled ... Eastern Europe. They had agreed that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" and that Stalin would heavily influence this region. However, they ha...

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... soviets as simply maintaining security of the USSR. On 12th April 1945 Roosevelt died, replaced by the vice president Harry Truman, a bitter anti-Communist. He was much more suspicious of Stalin than Roosevelt. When Germany surrendered American troops began to move to the Pacific and Soviet superiority in Europe ... Army swept through Eastern Europe leaving in its wake pro-Moscow governments. As 1945 progressed this continued even more rapidly and the communist movements in Eastern Europe became stronger. Stalin made sure that he had a tight grip on Eastern Europe by introducing the Comi...

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... believed. His ideas were to be lived by without exception and no-one was allowed to 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 ... people disappeared from the country at this time because they were threatened by their leader. Loyalty was e...

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... United States. Castro wanted Cuba to move from a dictatorship regime to a socialist society. Early in the 1960's he aligned himself with Khruschev and the communist USSR the United States opposed this move because they had been Cuba's ally and a trading partner . In earlier regimes, Cuba had heavily depended on ... school to herd cows, he worked as a pipe fitter in a coal mine 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...

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... respect from Sergei, who was always willing to help Stalin with whatever he may need. During this time Joseph Stalin has adopted a new nickname in the communist party: Koba. According to a Georgian tales, Koba was a bandit similar to Robin Hood, which robbed the rich and helped the poor. Stalin saw ... of Russia at the time, to join his comrades after the unrest of the February Revolution. He was all business from there on in the Communist Party. If she did not love him before, she definitely did now, and it was not just a childhood crush. She was sixteen years ... of 8 November 1932, S...

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... opportunity he had and ran like the wind with it, and assured his future position as the leader of the Communist party. Stalin rose and became one of the most influential man in the Communist party. From that point on, it was simply a bit of propaganda, a bit of magic, and gallons ... of luck that combined to make Stalin the leader of the entire Communist world and one of the most powerful man in all of history. Some of the real reasons for Stalin's rise to power were that his ... the Stalin Constitution. It supposedly preserved the work of Lenin. Most power of the Soviet government wer...

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... 1940's rise of Communism in the Soviet Union, a.k.a. Russia. At first glance this may not be apparent to the average reader, but with a closer look each animal has a characteristic of a Communist leader. Orwell changed his story into a beast fable based on the fear of what the public would think about him criticizing Communism. He changed each ... country much as Snowball does in Animal Farm. Near the end of Orwell's story the other animals stumble upon Napoleon acting as a human. Or in Orwell's eyes, Stalin acting as a Communist. Something the Soviets had not initially anticipated. Fur...

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... the completion of two of the five year plans the USSR was turned into a modern state, able to resist Hitler's invasion. There was genuine communist enthusiasm among the young "pioneers" or soviets. There were huge achievements in the building of new cities, built wholly around industry, bringing new life ... 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, s...

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... written by George Orwell in 1946, uses the personification of animals to tell the story of the Russian Revolution. The embodiment of a communist revolution, the Russian Revolution first raised hopes for revolutionary ideas of liberty, fraternity, and equality; then it cruelly shatters them. Even ... of the population in poverty. There were many different revolutionary groups, most following the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883), the author of the Communist Manifesto. As soon as the tsar was overthrown, civil war broke out among the revolutionaries. The Bolsheviks, lead by Lenin (1870-192...

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... 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 Communist Party and Stalin became one of five members of the newly founded political bureau. In 1922, the Central Committee elected Stalin as its ... secretary general and in late 1922; he was elected Secretary of the C...

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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 tra...

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... 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, after the revolution in ... main influence regarding 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 meeti...

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... unnecessary. We used the bomb in order to show them that they could not expand after WWII. We were responsible because we used intimidation tactics and obviously, they responded. Communist leaders feared capitalist nations. We expected European and then world domination by communism. They hoped for collapse of capitalist economies and societies. Problems with USSR included the free elections ... following the war. At the Yalta conference, he promised that free elections would be established. He did not keep this promise because the communist government was then formed with no elections. ...

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... (Purge 1). Since the failure of Stalin's five year plan that began in 1928 he was having some difficulties gaining respect in the highest circles of the communist elite (Purge 1). To gain more supreme power the highly regarded reputation of the Bolsheviks had to be removed from the Russian peoples mind (Purge 1). Stalin ... had fallen far short of his high expectations (Terror 2). Stalin guarded the facts of his early life very closely. He was sure his image as a communist would suffer if people knew the truth of his earlier ways. Former comrades knew Stalin as a self-conscious man who wa...

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... a periodical: les cahiers du mouvement ouvrier. As you can notice on the cover, a big portrait of Stalin is shown and behind him and on de sides of the book the communist flag is drawn. ABOUT THE BOOK The bibliography of Stalin, is divided into 7 chapters. The first one, the seminarist and the mythology, gives a general overview of Stalin's life before he ... and the consequences of that revolution. The third chapter, the general 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 fo...

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... careless and evil Both would do whatever they thought was necessary to further their cause, with no remorse about what 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 ... was in exile in Mexico. Stalin felt that if he eliminated his only threat, that it would mean less opposition to his power. This gave Stalin full control over the communist party. Hitler was the other example of a bad person. He demonstrate...

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... I marked the end of the "Old Order". It also marked the rise of communism and fascism. The historical end of the twentieth century was the collapse of the Soviet Union's communist system. Fascism having been 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 ... died of famine over a five-year period. Stalin also became obsessed with destroying all opposition. Through the use of his secret police, Stalin ordered purges, which often included his own communist party members, and seven milli...

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... they were focused on eliminating Trotsky. Trotsky eventually was weakened to the extent that he was dismissed from his post as Commissar of War in 1925, ultimately expelled from the Communist Party altogether in 1927, sent into exile in 1929, and killed in Mexico, while on exile, in 1940. His rise to power was not only marked by political duels with ... of War. Barely a year after this expulsion, he and Kamenev were expelled from the Politburo. Zinoviev was dismissed from his role as the leader of Communist International. Trotsky, as mentioned before, was expelled from the Communist Par...

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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 ... . One fifth of the officers of the army were arrested and disappeared, in addition to half a million Party members. Moreover, of the 139 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, 98 were ar...

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