... strong pride in their country and believed that they should focus on solving economic problems and strengthen themselves before spreading communism in other countries. This won more support for Stalin over Trotsky. Stalin had talent for manipulating situations, the combination of his ability to manipulate situations and the failure of the others to prevent him from taking over was another factor ... the Soviet people as well as a surplus for export. Peasants had to join or suffer severe consequences. Others who attempted to retain their lands faced execution, imprisonment, or exile. Sta...

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... by their leader. Loyalty was expected not only from citizens but from the communist party and the secret police as well. Even innocent citizens who obeyed Stalin were turned in and executed. During this time, families and friends spied on each other and turned each other in. An estimated 15 million people ... were arrested and 3 million were killed during this time. The main result of the Great Purge was lasting fear of Stalin's power. Stalin deliberately built up the power of the Soviet Union to defend the country. His way of doing this was five year plans. In the first ... was interrup...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... 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' propos...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... 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' propos...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... 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' propos...

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... to the story of revolution and communism in Russia, staring with the overthrow of the Tsar and in 1945 ending in the very oppressive and aggressive regime under Stalin. Many of the attributes of Stalin's leadership of Russia are the same as Napoleon's leadership of Animal Farm. They both induced famine in their people, they both slaughtered much of the population, and ... ...

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... did not spread to the extent he thought it would.(Museum of Communism) In fact, once communism was associated with individuals such as Stalin and Mussolini, the party started its spiral downward in America. When the purging of Joseph Stalin in Russia hit the news in America, and the fascist action of Mussolini, many citizens of the United States who had turned ... ...

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... of its weaknesses. There is currently no strictly communistic country in the world that is a world power. As Americans, when we think of Communism it brings thoughts of Hitler and Stalin, two men who are despised by our culture. The average citizen will ask why would anyone want to work hard and not be rewarded monetarily over those who less productive ... 's outlined in the "Communist Manifesto"(O"Connor;713-715). Those countries took more of a dictatorship role, rather than trying to improve their economy. As far as the argument that Hitler and Stalin are directly related to Communism,...

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... the alleged communist connections of many directors, writers and actors. Many of them had been members of the Communist Party or its front groups, especially in the late 1930s, when Stalin's Russia was seen as an ally against fascism. Most of those who testified before HUAC admitted their own political activities. Membership in any political party was perfectly legal, then as ... ...

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... of speech, which they claim to have. A good example of lack of freedom of speech would be Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was imprisoned from1945 to 1953 for writing a letter critical of Stalin, and then was exiled to Siberia from 1953 to 1956 (Leone Bruno 94). Under a communist state there is no opinion of the public. It also makes no difference whether people ... ...

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... in the Lenin sense); were known as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Gennadi Zyuganov led them. They were not like the old communist party, they didn't want another Stalin. They were seeking a social democracy with a more evenly distribution of wealth and more respect for the elderly. They were proud of the old Russia. They are the only ones that ... ...

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... being unable to express my opinions, my beliefs and being tortured or killed if I did. This happened to millions. During the past century, violent revolutions have exposed Lenin, Hitler and Stalin. It is hard to say who was worse. Each rode revolutionary movements to power and then committed mass genocide in the name of racist or Marxist ideology. In china there ... ...

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... the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. When we were attempting to stop Japanese aggression in China, Stalin and his comrades were not deemed to be "evil", at least not when wee needed his help. In fact, we decided not to fight the Germans from the east when ... ...

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... Europe and the Soviet Union. At first, Communism was thought of as a wonderful new way of life, where everything would be fair and all people would be equal. Propagandists, like Stalin, convinced people of the success of Communism while concealing acts of mass murder, state corruption and an elitist power structure that was the very antithesis of Karl Marx's ideal. When ... ...

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