After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. Khrushchev would openly denounce Stalin and his actions because they were unnecessary and harmful to the Communist party and the Russian people (Harris). ... March 1985 marks a turning point in the Communist rule in Russia. ... The purpose of these reforms was to elevate the Soviet standard of living in order to reaffirm the citizenry's loyalty to the Communist party and to enable the rebirth of the Soviet economy and ideal. ... He immediately resigned as the Communist party General Secretary,...

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The Soviet propaganda promoted Marxist and Leninist ideology in order to promote the Communist Party and its leader, Stalin. ... The interaction between Stalin and children from the Communist Party became an extremely important key in his cult of the personality. ... The red flag is associated with Communist Party. ... The socialist utopia was to mold the young into a generation of committed Communists. ... The plan consisted of spreading the ideology of the Communist Party through literature and other disciplines. ...

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Khrushchev marked four problems with this phenomenon: - Violations of law and mass repression; - Failures and subjective decisions of Stalin during World War II; - Breach of the principle of collective leadership in the Party; - Stalin's actions aimed to exalt his role in the history of the Party and the state. ... Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. They had to explain to ordinary communists why they glorified Stalin before, but now they began to accuse him of all "deadly sins." ... Instead, the traditi...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ... Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party decisions. ... Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. ...

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This worsened relations between the USA and USSR because the Truman Doctrine was backed by the Marshall plan which supplied money to countries that were part of the Truman Doctrine and this was directly helping countries not to become communist and therefor directly went against Stalin's idea of Soviet expansion. ... Stalin set up Comecon, as seen in the source, in 1947 which was a key factor that caused relations from 1946 to 1949 get worst between the USA and the USSR because this was set up by Stalin so that the eastern European and communist countries could easily trade between withou...

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A short time after leaving the seminary he joined the national Democratic Party's military wing where shortly there after the split of the party (1903) he became a follower of Lenin. ... Lenin broke away from the social democrats in 1912 and started his own party knowing how valuable Joseph was Lenin took him in as a member of his central committee Joseph was only in the committee for less then a year when he was arrested and exiled again , where this time he was sent to Northern Siberia where he could not escape while he was there he took on the name Stalin which meant "Man of steel" (WW...

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After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, Russia's Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... By 1930, he stood alone atop the Party and the Soviet Union. ... But while his rivals from the '20s had suffered defeat, they were still alive and in the Party. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ...

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In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. After successfully removing the opposition the communist party led by Stalin launched a major revolution through the next decade that did not end until every class and member of society was suppressed. ... As a result of this all members of the communist party were of the agreement that industrialisation was a necessity. ...

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Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922 and he became a Senator in 1934. ... Foreign relations and the communist scare were the centerpieces during Truman's presidency. One of the most important tactics to counter communist influence was the introduction of the Marshall Plan (Divine 670). ... After China was passed under Communist control in 1949, the Marshall Plan was willing to give Nationalist China 400 million dollars for economic and military aid to fight off the Communists (Ferrell 113). ... This meant at any time, the Koreans c...

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In his rise to power, Stalin held a number of senior administrative posts within the Soviet government and 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. ... From then on Stalin can be said to have exercised control over the party and the country, although this was not complete until the Great Purge of 1936-38. ... Trotsky's August 1940 assassination in Mexico, where he had lived in exile s...

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Explicit consideration is given in the aspect of China's political, economic, and agricultural policies and Mao's personal ideology, imposed on both countryside and internal Party in the atmosphere of the cult and fright of Mao. ... In addition, due to Chinese Communists" enamouring of Stalin, Lysenko's pseudoscience and Stalin's collectivization techniques were launched in China without any examination, which brought China disastrous results. ... A very curious situation appeared that intellectuals inside and outside the party were sent to factories, communes, mines, a...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... Under the rule of Lenin and the Bolshevik party, 1917 "1923 the forces of reaction were successful in preserving a dictatorship with the use of terror as a main instrument. Putting into consideration the circumstances in which the Bolsheviks seized power, it could be debated that inte...

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Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... Skepticism, differing thoughts, or criticism of the government were not tolerated because they went against the beliefs of the sole political party in the USSR. ... He furthered Lenin's work by forcing the Russian population to conform to the beliefs of his political party. ... In order to rally the population around him, he blamed a fire in the Reichstag building on Dutch communists, which caused a "Red Scare ", and allowed for him to easily win the...

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