... 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 but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be kept safe for democracy ... to the anger and annoyance of Russia, who believed in much the opposite. The century would be left to witness the rivalry between these opposing ideologies: Lenin's state communism and Wil...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate