... , leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier ... , which had been largely ignored and discouraged beforehand, and through this he glorified himself as a dictator of the people and a true proletariat fighting back the bourgeois academics polluting the ...

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... the factory in the early paragraphs of the novel suggest his passion; indeed, the industry seems to be a living, essential part of him. While this description alone represents a strictly idealized communist, Gladkov goes further to describe the pain Gleb experiences as well upon his arrival, particularly when he becomes nostalgic about his previous relationship with his wife, Dasha. Greeting him coldly ... Comrade Gleb? Don't be so wild. Calm yourself" (Gladkov 5). Gladkov quickly establishes this conflict between the couple in order to emphasize Gleb's emotional capability. Alongside th...

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... movement and sent in fourteen thousand troops, however, they failed to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. President Woodrow Wilson, and the United States, offered an alternative to communism. Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War ... these two great countries. America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 44) After Britain declared it could no longer support ...

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... works with greats such as Gabo, Klutsis had the opportunity to cavort with Malevich's union of artist. Attending school at Second State Free Art Studio in Moscow, Klutsis joined the Communist Party at age twenty-five in 1920. Marking Lenin's fiftieth birthday, Klutsis used photomontage to design two ideologically mannered Soviet posters. The significance of Klutsis's posters is that they ... demonstrate complete alliance to Lenin and a utopian Soviet communist society and culture. One of these posters is entitled Male and Female Workers All to Election of the Soviets. The poster depicts ...

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... Leon Trotsky, a former Menshevik who organized the Red Army and guided the Bolsheviks to victory. After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Party in 1922, and although he ... Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. Meanwhile, he launched a new wave ...

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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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... 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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... 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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... 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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