... but escaped 2 years later and returned to Georgia. Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means necessary ... WW2 Biographies) he was the only one left alive out of the 5 original leaders he was now the leader of the entire Soviet Union. In 1928 Stalin set in play the "5 year plan" this plan involved building dams factories and large state owned farms , farmers were taken off their small f...

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... by their leader. Loyalty was expected not only from citizens but from the communist party and the secret police as well. Even innocent citizens who obeyed Stalin were turned in and executed. During this time, families and friends spied on each other and turned each other in. An estimated 15 million people ... were arrested and 3 million were killed during this time. The main result of the Great Purge was lasting fear of Stalin's power. Stalin deliberately built up the power of the Soviet Union to defend the country. His way of doing this was five year plans. In the first ... was interrup...

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... or they crush us" In order to bring Russia up to the current level of industry he employed a variety of different ideas to help Russia. Stalin was a tyrannical leader and did what he had to do to keep Russia from falling more and more behind the more industrialized countries. He would ... in the Soviet Union but many produced only enough to feed the families who worked them. The more successful peasants were called kulaks. In 1929 Joseph Stalin introduce a campaign to "liquidate the kulaks as a class" in order to "collectivize" agriculture. He felt that once the peasants saw the benefits...

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... country of Russia in a blanket of fear, the fear that their life could be taken at any moment for having the slightest connection to anything that Stalin disliked. Maybe it was a greed for power and control, maybe it was racism and bloodlust, but either way, its effects were devastating to the country ... clear that this mass murder had an effect on everyone. Not just those directly involved in the terror. It The Soviet Union reacted very passively to Stalin's terror. The country had a history of being weak in the face of any exerted governmental power, which is basically summed up in d...

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`Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. ... removal from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation. He was never actaully in the action wasnt aware of what was going on.Stalin believed that the whole country should function as one; the state and the masses intertwined, it thus made sense that he wanted the Soviet culture to ... reflect socialism He felt cultural heroes should be the workers, who through selfless dedication to the state ...

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... due to his extraordinary memory. The Seminary was where Staling revolted the first time and began his revolutionary career as a part of Marxist group. Stalin began to read about Karl Marx and read the communist manifesto. When Joseph was eventually kicked out of the seminary he continued to be with the ... Joseph got full power of USSR in 1879 he wanted to make a "commanding economy" by forcing industries and farmers to industrialize no matter what. Stalin firmly believed that USSR was a hundred years behind Europe and that this could be fatal. To kick start the industrial and agricultur...

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... Blockade and the Berlin airlift. The USSR were very keen in taking over Eastern Europe. Truman wanted to stop the spread of communism while Stalin wanted to take control over Eastern Europe. Even before World War Two had ended USA and USSR was suspicious of each other. One reason ... In June 1947 the Western Allies introduced a new currency called Deutschmark. In January 194, USA and Britain put their countries together and created Bizonia. Stalin was angry when he heard about this. When France heard f this they wanted to be involved, USA, Britain and France now have all put ... their c...

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... Not one person or country wanted another World War especially if it was against Russia. America did not meet other demands from the Soviet Union. Stalin had asked for other land, such as South Sakhalin Island, the Kuriles and Outer Mongolia. They asked for 20 billion dollars in reparations from ... 000 to repair the country's economy and to equip themselves in case of an attempted assault by Russia. This made huge hostilities towards Truman and Stalin. 270 million people in foreign countries were starving and suffering. The US government decided to give $11,000,000,000 of the taxpayers m...

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... Soviets, the West now possessed the atomic bomb wanted to pursue a quest for all the raw materials and markets that they could get. Stalin said that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe would balance for America's overwhelming economic and military superiority. Everything started at Poland. The Allies ... wanted freedom restored to the country. The Soviets didn't. Roosevelt and Churchill insisted Stalin permit free elections in Poland, and he retorted, "The Prime Minister has said that for Great Britain the question of Poland is a question ... is not only a question of honor, but of secu...

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... 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. This created tension between the two countries as the USA was now using money and threats against the USSR to ... soviet 'sphere of influence'. Cominform created tension between the two sides because now that Russia had gone back on their agreements from Potsdam Stalin needed to coordinate how these countries would be ran. He specially chose the leaders of each country she didn't want anyone to...

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... War. Considerations of political aspects were vital in understanding the tensions, which arose between the USA and USSR. After WWII, peace was restored throughout Europe, however a growing rift between Stalin, Truman and Churchill already threatened it. At the Potsdam Conference, there was already a division between the partners where Truman and Churchill were determined to secure political freedom and democratic governments ... throughout post-war Europe whilst Stalin was determined to dominate all of Europe and impose communism on its nations. Each side could not tolerate their ideolo...

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... the Eastern Bloc? The beginning of Khrushchev's ambitious reforms may be considered the 20th congress of the CPSU (February 1956), which was followed by the exposure of crimes, committed by Stalin and his entourage, the beginning of mass rehabilitation of repressed people and the criticism of dictatorial governance. Congress made changes in the ideological concept of the party: sounded rejection of ... in June 28, 1956. 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 glorifi...

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... United Nations. He also felt that Russia needed to be appeased in order to gain their support in the war against Japan. To the surprise of Roosevelt and Churchill, Josef Stalin failed to keep his promises. He quickly prevented popular elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria by assigning permanent Communist governments to each and suppressing all democratic supporters. ... The response against Stalin was little, for his army extended across Eastern Europe and controlled the region by force. The United States, busy in its war against Japan and not wanting to lo...

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... was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power ... which nation- Russia or America- was to blame for the outbreak of this war that lasted for nearly five decades. It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Alban...

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... economy. They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. After being invaded by Germany in two ... charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. Born losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, he adopted the name Stalin, which means Man of Steel." While still a young revolutionary. In his reply to Churchill he reminds us that Churchill too is like H...

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... economy. They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. After being invaded by Germany in two ... charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. Born losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, he adopted the name Stalin, which means Man of Steel." While still a young revolutionary. In his reply to Churchill he reminds us that Churchill too is like H...

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... II ending and Russia becoming a major world power there had to be something done to prevent a future war. Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill met with Stalin for a peace agreement know as the Yalta conference. To understand the Yalta conference better you need to look at World War II, the Yalta ... crushing Polish resistance. Russia and Germany signed a non-aggression pact days before the attack on Poland. Seeing that Germany was dominating with barely any interference, Stalin knew that he needed an ally to survive. He turned to Britain for help but was denied so he then turned to Germany. ...

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... pressure upon the Soviets and push them from Iran. Another problem during 1946 was the intrusion of the eastern Mediterranean. America saw the threat when Stalin decided to send 25 Soviet divisions into Turkey. SO America decided to flex her arms and really show how powerful the U.S. is by showing off ... event that brought up the most amount of hostility between America and Russia was the Berlin Blockade. Stalin was upset that the allies did not leave Berlin at the end of World War II. Stalin believed that the allies would not fight for the land that was Germanys capitol during the war ...

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... was advised by Kennan to stick up Russia firmly when they pose any threat as they had historically backed down when being affronted. This was done in the Berlin Crisis. Stalin had cut off supplies to West Berlin with railroad blockades following news that the allies were planning on unifying their zones in Germany. In response, Truman commenced the Berlin Airlift ... of Western Europe, Truman organized the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with ten other European Countries to form a military alliance that would stand tall against the soviets. By doing this, Stalin could not make...

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... the significance of Hitler's belief in this idea was that he was the first leader to employ such a philosophy after the world had begun to view such ideas as evil. 3. Stalin Stalin was a crucial figure in the history of the Soviet Union, transforming this predominantly peasant society into a world industrial power by the end of the 1930s. But his economic reforms came ... at a huge price - his enforced collective farming led to a famine in the early 1930s that is thought to have killed at least six million people. In the same decade, Stalin launched his 'Great Purge', a ruthless cam...

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... the Cold War. After the war, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation by the United States, Britain, France, and the USSR. Stalin refused to allow freely elected governments to exist in the Eastern European countries that were occupied by the Soviet Union. The new president, Harry Truman ... to live by the same democratic ideals that the United States lived by, which included freedom of speech, civil liberties, and free elections. But Stalin was fearful of the possibility of governments on the USSR's western border attacking his country, since it had happened twice before, and so...

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... Marshall Plan rose, in large part, out of an American fear of Soviet expansionism. Immediately following World War II, the Soviet Union was determined to advance three important priorities. First, Stalin sought to retain the boundary changes that he had gained in the war, second, he was determined to forbid the states that shared borders with the Soviet Union from maintaining ... hostile policies against it and third, he wanted to spread Soviet Ideology around the world. In 1946, Stalin made an "election speech" in which he articulated his goals, adding that, with imperialism and capita...

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... tried very hard despite his declining health to keep Russia calm and stable. He kept some policies that were enacted by Stalin and Khrushchev. Brezhnev even made some aspects of Russian life better than the way they were during either Stalin's or Khrushchev's reign. One good example was the political police, who were known as the KGB since 1953. Even with all ... this probably caused dis-content among the citizens. The point is that Brezhnev was not a skilled political leader. He did not have the "brains" of Lenin; "Hercules/Superman" mentality like Stalin; or big reform ideas like Khru...

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... and materials that it desperately needed. America wanted to be the dominant nation, and took many measures to insure that the USSR would not expand following WWII. For example, without Stalin even knowing that the US had atomic power, an atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. The US and England had and extreme lack of trust of ... Stalin. Neither Churchill nor FDR told Stalin about the atomic bomb. The American people were told that it was done in order to scare the USSR. If they were our allies, this would be unnecessary. We used ... nations. We expected European and then world domination ...

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... Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in Potsdam, in occupied Germany. After learning of the project's success, President Truman told Stalin that the United States now possessed a super weapon capable of "awesome destructiveness" (Davidson 554). This was extremely significant because President Truman ... could now use "Atomic Diplomacy" when dealing with the Russians. During meetings with Stalin, it was noted by Winston Churchill that Truman "told the Russians just where they ...

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