... the leader of the Soviet Union. Upon Lenin's death, Stalin assumed political power is wanting to transform the USSR into a communist nation-state and also wanting the Soviet Union to industrialize. Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet Union into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. Prior ... to own farmlands and decide what to produce was established through Lenin. Small private businesses were allowed to produce products and sell them to consumers. Turning the nation-state to a communist o...

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... interesting character, attitudes, or narrative in Battleship Potemkin. In an interesting approach, a collective hero replaces the single hero. This is a direct connection to the communist ideals of unity and equality. Further insight into the relation of communist ideals and Potemkin is the ship chaplain. This is a rugged individual who carries around a cross that has characteristics of a hatchet. Religion is thus declared a weapon ... when the chaplain blocked a seaman's path towards the enemy officer. In order to succeed, a seaman had to take out the chaplain in order to kill the offi...

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... organization", but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity." Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. Hitler gained even more popularity with his symbol of the Swastika, an emblem that many anti-Semitic political parties wore. By the ... Germany and was carried out by far more horrendous situations. At the end of World War II, the monarchy was abolished and the communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minist...

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... organization", but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity." Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. Hitler gained even more popularity with his symbol of the Swastika, an emblem that many anti-Semitic political parties wore. By the ... Germany and was carried out by far more horrendous situations. At the end of World War II, the monarchy was abolished and the communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minist...

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... before the election, after heavy campaigning and national rallies, an arguably important factor to the first steps of Hitler's control occurred – the Reichstag Fire. Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any ... communist and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA) communist supporters up in the streets, creating an atmosphere of fear against the Nazi Party, silencing anyone who was to speak a...

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... rule independently of the Reichstag for 4 years. To get the act passed, Hitler used the SA to intimidate members of parliament when they went to vote, he discounted Communists and Communist votes, he counted absentees as a vote in favour and made promises to the Catholic party which he did not intend to carry through. Using the act, Hitler banned the ... Communist party, before banning the formation of all other parties, banned trade unions and outlawed strikes, founded concentration camps and abolished the state government. 3. Essay I. How important was the role of ... intimidate mem...

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... hatred. In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. On February 27th 1933 the Reichstag building went up in flames. Hitler said that Marianus van der Lubbe, a Dutch, communist was the culprit. This resulted in the German people fearing a hostile take over from the Communists and therefore President von Hindenburg signed for an emergency decree for The Protection of ... against them and by doing this he gained their trust, he then exploited their trust by manipulating people into thinking that the Communists were coming for them. By using anti-communist propaganda he wou...

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... and greatness for Germany. So in conclusion Hitler was proving to be a good organizer and politician. Hitler organized a private army of hoodlums who became known as storm troopers. They fought Communist and others who tried to break up the Nazi party. Hitler established many of these. For example, in October 1923, he had 15,000 Nazi party members with machine guns ... World War I. The war debt had to be paid. Hitler added his old arguments to the question of the war debt payment plan. First of all he blamed Jews, and Communist, for Germany's defeat in World War I. He thought that now t...

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... of the country and is a prime example of necessary terror. A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959 ... . However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions for conspiracy an suspicion of being Communist. "These victims were "dragged before drum-head courts and then out to some...

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... or her beliefs without being caught by the Secret Police State organization. "Opposing the Nazi Government brought the risk of denunciation." The left wing communist party on the other hand was demolished by clever manipulation. When a former communist burnt down the Reichstag, Hitler convinced the nation that this event was proof that communists were a threat to Germany. A decree for the Protection of ... the Reich) was passed. This abolished the Reichstag and changed the entire German constitution in Hitler's favour. It allowed him to become a dictator and completely outlaw his main o...

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... a sudden the support of the American's and the aid pans were withdrawn, Germany was again isolated and the economy was in crisis. The rise in Unemployment and a renewed fear of a Communist uprising gave Hitler's messages a new importance. People were again interested in the views of this extremist party. In a land where the government was struggling to control the economy, the people ... and more desperate, people were more and more ready to listen to the ideas of Hitler. When the great depression struck, many Germans accepted his explanation that it was a Jewish-Communist plot. He had ...

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... instead used the Kroll Opera House. Hitler used the Reichstag fire as several uses to have the Enabling Act be passed. Firstly, it gave him the opportunity to imprison many communist leaders, which stopped them from campaigning against the Enabling Act. It also allowed the Nazis to say that the country was in danger from the communists during the election campaign ... not pass, it did not give the Nazis the majority that Hitler had hoped for in the Reichstag, but it gave them enough seats. After Hitler had arrested all the communist deputies and the other parties had been intimidated by...

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... Nazi propaganda. Nazi propaganda made Hitler look like the only leader who could save Germany and said he was destined to become national leader. Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. Goebbels manipulated propaganda very well, he modified many effective posters with clever slogans such as, "Work, freedom and bread". He also organised mass parades and rallies so everyone in ... to defend them from the communists. The deal with Von Papen led to Hitler gaining office as chancellor and eventually becoming a dictator. Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Comm...

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... Germany. This led to uprisings from these two sections of society. For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. When the Weimer republic did show strength like when it crushed the Sparticist Rebellion by using the Freikorps, it was forced to disband the Freikops by the orders of ... ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited,...

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... against the 19th-century ideals of the Enlightenment (RoSo, 2002). The motivation of fascism is also disputed as either being one of aspirations (for a cultural "regeneration") or of anxieties (e.g. for a communist revolution); both of these points of view are legitimate (RoSo, 2002). Therefore, there is no one, universal fascism. There are four major, established interpretations of fascism: fascism as a crisis of ... against modernity (Segre, 2002). In the 1920s and 30s, liberal policies and institutions had failed, and fascism has only prospered politically in times of either economic...

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... democrats of the Weimar Republic who betrayed them at Versailles and brought about the social and economic disorder of the 1920's and 1930's. The other choice was communism. To be communist during this period, however, meant that one had to identify with Russia and the radical working class who were striking throughout Stevens 5 Germany and, in the eyes of most Germans ... to the person who made them feel this way (Building Up German Hegemony In Central Europe 1933-1938). Yet another important ally of Hitler was big business. Fearful of the communist worker riots exploding all over Germ...

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... democratic ideals (all new states which emerged from the war, initially were dedicated to democracy. In addition one of the most important happenings was the creation of the world's first communist state. People were mostly looking for someone to blame for the war thus there was a general desire to reconstruct, repair, restore, recover and repay, in other words to turn back ... , after the letdown of the US to guarantee French security, was left with fear of a possible future German attack. The Eastern countries, like the French, feared both a German invasion and a communist advance west...

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... field in the center of which was a large white circle containing a black swastika. In 1923 Hitler established the newspaper Volkischer Beobachter as the official daily party organ. As the German Communist party grew in strength the charecterized as a conspiracy of international jewish financiers. They also proclaimed their contempt for parliamentary democracy and agitated for a dictatorship. The nazis blamed the commnistes fot ... many incidents and made a pretext to suppress the Communist Party. Neitherparty offered organized resistance. All other parties were subsequenlty outlawed., t...

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... . The post war years saw strikes and demonstrations organised by the working classes and the growing strength of trade unions. Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. These parties gained they support of capitalists, industrialists and people of property. Fascism was at ... . It opposed its internationalism, its materialism, and its fixation with class, concentrating instead on loyalty to one's own country as the supreme good. Industrialists and businessme...

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... point was "how the benefits and burdens of modern industrial society would be distributed" (Stackelberg, p. 64). The life that was taken in this battle was liberal democracy in Central Europe. Communist parties were pushing their labour movement on to the people that inevitably made a large portion of the middle classes shift further to the right. People were willing to try new ... relatively new political party that was founded after World War One to magnetize the middle classes to a Nationalist cause. The DAP held many anti-socialist views as well as anti communist views. In February ...

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... middle and upper classes of Germany (Riedlsperger, Internet). Many Germans began expressing doubt in the ability of the Weimar government to handle the needs of its people. In Russia, the Communist Party swept into power. Some Germans became increasingly worried that Communism would soon spread to Germany and began electing representatives of a new party that had emerged. These new politicians began ... Germany. To further strengthen his position, Hitler called for new elections. Prior to the elections, a fire tore through the Reichstag, destroying it. Hitler, once again stirring German...

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... influenced by the Bolsheviks in Russia. They wanted to establish a dictatorship of proletariat. In December 1918, they showed their contempt for all the other so-called Socialist parties founded the Communist Party. In January 1919, the Spartacists led by Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg, occupied almost every major city in Germany. The government managed to defeat the Communists only because it ... Freikorp' (Independent volunteers regiments raised by ex-army officers). It was a sign of the governments weakness that it had to depend on forces which did not itself control. The two Comm...

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... the Nazi party found itself can be found in Neidenburg. In 1928, the NSDAP picked up 2.3% of the total vote. By the 1930 elections, this figure had risen to 25.8%. Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. In this time of economic turmoil, voters began to turn to either the extreme left or far right. Clashes between ... army felt they could identify with Hitler. Hitler was a strong leader. He focused on national unity and destroying internal enemies, and the restoration of the German economy. He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had ...

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... , detention facilities were set up for those deemed "socially unacceptable". Those trapped within these camps with the label of "socially unacceptable" first consisted of Gypsies, German Communist, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Social Democrats, and those of "asocial behavior". The parties definition of "socially unacceptable" soon expanded five years later in 1938 when Germanys seizure ... ...

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... were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began as an elite group of bodyguards for Hitler. The job of many of the SS was to kill every communist party official and every Jew they could capture. A normal deed involved marching victims out of a town or city, lining them up at the edge of a ravine, mowing them down with ... ...

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