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" (WW2 biographies). ... In 1922 Lenin gave Stalin the position of General secretary of the central committee of the communist party, This position gave Stalin the power to appoint people were loya...

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A Plan of the Investigation How did Stalin rise to power through his struggles with Zinoviev, Kamenov, and Trotsky? After Lenin was no longer a candidate for power, Stalin was capable of stepping up and taking control. At the beginning, his only real threat came from Trotsky. Soon, however...

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The biography that shall be focused upon within this report is "Outwitting Hitler, Surviving Stalin" by Arthur Spindler. ... This biography shall be used as an exemplar as to why it is not possible to write a perfect biography. ... There is biased reporting of facts in the featured biography. ... An aspect of this is for a biography to have a novel-like structure. ... Unfortunately, the feature biography is lacking a novel-like structure. ...

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As a result, the situation emerging from 1945 and so on, was laying the foundations of a new chapter in history that would stamp European biography and global politics once and for all. ... As Lee emphasizes, the fall of this wall should be remembered for the reason that Germans and the whole Western Europe would "no longer have to bow down to tyrants like Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and their local clones" (938). ...

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This book is not pure biography because Noonan also describes in detail her interaction with Reagan. ... A president doesn't have to be brilliant; Harry Truman wasn't brilliant, but he helped save Western Europe from Stalin. ...

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The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany invaded France. The French army and its British and Belgian allies were overpowered by the German blitzkrieg. Toward the end of May, Allied troops were backed up to the coast of France in the town of Dunkirk. ...

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The author I chose to present to you is James Mercer Langston Hughes; better know as Langston Hughes (American poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and nonfiction writer). He was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His father, James Nathaniel Hughes went to school t...

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Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. Mao was born in a farming comm...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...

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