... a socialist must be highly industrialised. As a result of this all members of the communist party were of the agreement that industrialisation was a necessity. The programme Stalin chose to implement in order to achieve this high level of industrialisation contained three major components. The first being complete nationalism and socialisation of all non-farming activity from ... execution or deportation. In 1939, 2.5 million hectares of land in private plots was taken away and private livestock numbers were also cut. Although as a result of Stalin's revolutionary policies investment in...

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... strong pride in their country and believed that they should focus on solving economic problems and strengthen themselves before spreading communism in other countries. This won more support for Stalin over Trotsky. Stalin had talent for manipulating situations, the combination of his ability to manipulate situations and the failure of the others to prevent him from taking over was another factor ... the Soviet people as well as a surplus for export. Peasants had to join or suffer severe consequences. Others who attempted to retain their lands faced execution, imprisonment, or exile. Sta...

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... traditional, cultural symbols with emotional connotations. His cult began by portraying him as a "strong," "beloved," "bold," and "genius" leader. The interaction between Stalin and children from the Communist Party became an extremely important key in his cult of the personality. His strategy of communication was often based on gift giving to the Soviet ... another way of influencing people's opinions. The most successful propaganda in film was "The Fall of Berlin," in which the Soviet film-maker portrays Stalin as a savior of the Soviet Union. In fact, Stalin supervised and directed s...

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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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... proletariat society those communist academics argued was necessary for the survival of socialism. However, whilst the communist party benefited from the social engineering that collectivisation and industrialisation offered Stalin benefited greatly from the opportunities that industrialisation presented him. As the plans became economically more and more successful, the rightist opposition left in the politburo were sidelined and ... to exist in human history. Question 3 When determining the success of the five year plans the huge human rights problems it caused should also be taken into ...

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... . Industrialisation of Russia was an important step in the development of the USSR, industrialisation occurred in varying forms under both Lenin and Stalin, the two great individuals at the helm of communist Russia. Under Lenin industrialisation was initialised by aiming to recover the economy from the ... plan was the solution to Russia's economic state, a first of its kind, introduced to move the economy into the modern era. A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country." Some historia...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' propos...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' propos...

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... by a compromise which was made on both sides, with Poland agreeing to remain in the communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative ... taxes were paid. Bonuses, extra rations and better housing were offered as incentives. Still there was widespread opposition to the communist policy with the beginnings of a "peasant war- against Stalin's' propos...

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... . Ideally, the society provided equal sharing of work, according to ability, and all benefits, according to need. (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia) The private property was abolished. However, Lenin and Stalin modified Marx's theory of Communism, which altered the actually meaning of the theory. This modification contributed to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. The reformation of Gorbachev was an ... success by Khrushchev. Under the led of Khrushchev, with his idea of de-Stalinization, another uprising occurred in Poland 1956. (Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Poli...

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... suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. The resulting system of total control has been labeled totalitarianism, but others have called it Stalinism, after Joseph Stalin, the leader who shaped and controlled the government of the USSR for more than a quarter of a century after Lenin's death (Pious) Stalinism ... , of course, in no way resembled the Communist utopia that Marx and Engels had envisioned. Three decades after Stalin's death, the USSR was still ruled by command, not consent; it was a society administered in authoritarian fashion by a managerial bureaucracy, which in many ... ...

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... and hint of dissent in the nation. The result of this austere government was totalitarianism. It was and controlled by a man named Joseph Stalin, and his ruling practice later became know as Stalinism (Pious, 160). Stalinism was nothing at all like the utopian society that Marx had envisioned years ... earlier. Even after Stalin's death the government continued to rule with and iron fist. The bureaucracy strictly controlled social and cultural life. There was no freedom of speech ... to get at Lenin's fortune of rubles. Later after some political development Ho Chi Min joined the communi...

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... shunned within the Senate. As McCarthy's role in the senate was coming to an end, so was the threat of communism as a whole. The Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953. Stalin replacements wanted the Korean conflict to end. A truce was declared, and the fighting ended on July 27, 1953. This proved Communist expansion could be stopped. Many Americans resigned ... from the communist party after Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's replacement, spoke out on Stalin's cruelty. Realizing that communism would not become Lenin's ideal to make life better for the poor, the Communist Part...

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... government. Eventually the power corrupts them, as it does through out history, and they turn on their fellow animals, removing competitors through propaganda and bloodshed. This, obviously, is a reference to Stalin, who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. II. The barn at Manor Farm is where all on the democracy issue among the ... emphasize his main point of the novel. We cannot eliminate government corruption by electing individuals to roles of power because it is power itself that corrupts. I. Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig w...

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... control all citizens' activities and suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. The resulting system of total control has been labeled totalitarianism, but others have called it Stalinism, after Joseph Stalin, the leader who shaped and controlled the government of the USSR for more than a quarter of a century after Lenin's death (Pious) Stalinism, of course, in no way resembled the Communist ... utopia that Marx and Engels had envisioned. Three decades after Stalin's death, the USSR was still ruled by command, not consent; it was a society administered in authoritarian fashion by a manag...

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... to the story of revolution and communism in Russia, staring with the overthrow of the Tsar and in 1945 ending in the very oppressive and aggressive regime under Stalin. Many of the attributes of Stalin's leadership of Russia are the same as Napoleon's leadership of Animal Farm. They both induced famine in their people, they both slaughtered much of the population, and ... ...

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... did not spread to the extent he thought it would.(Museum of Communism) In fact, once communism was associated with individuals such as Stalin and Mussolini, the party started its spiral downward in America. When the purging of Joseph Stalin in Russia hit the news in America, and the fascist action of Mussolini, many citizens of the United States who had turned ... ...

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... of its weaknesses. There is currently no strictly communistic country in the world that is a world power. As Americans, when we think of Communism it brings thoughts of Hitler and Stalin, two men who are despised by our culture. The average citizen will ask why would anyone want to work hard and not be rewarded monetarily over those who less productive ... 's outlined in the "Communist Manifesto"(O"Connor;713-715). Those countries took more of a dictatorship role, rather than trying to improve their economy. As far as the argument that Hitler and Stalin are directly related to Communism,...

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... some Marxist doctrines in the 1950s from an approval of press controls and subjugation of individual rights under the regime of Stalin. ∆ The Soviet communist ideology was misinterpreted to reflect a "cult of personality", thus the press was used to reflect Stalin's desires and personal leadership rather than support the revolutionaries' originally outlined goals. ∆ Although the Soviet Union, then, was one ... ...

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... reforms it came back to haunt him after his death when it was proved that the proper communist base had not been implemented which allowed as horrible a leader as Joseph Stalin to come into power and torment his nation. Marx believed that in a communist society everyone would work hard and everyone would get a piece of the pie, "From him according to ... his abilities, to him according to his needs." But this did not happen in the Soviet Union. Since Stalin was the sole party leader he controlled all means of production but he did not distribute the goods evenly. This led to widespread ...

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... teach the desirability of overthrowing the government." The Prosecution also used testimonies of former members as evidence(Simkin, Commu). Americans should realize, Browder believes, that "the only solid representatives of Stalin among the American Communists were a little band of old "old timers," occupying strategic posts in the party apparatus. For them communism was a religion ... , Stalin was Mohammed and Moscow was Mecca."("Kansas City Times") Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, and educated at Marquette University. He practiced law in Wisconsin until 1939, when ....

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... had, as a child originating from a peasant family, that distinguished him and helped him reach the top? Gorbachev seemed to have proven his loyalty towards the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, especially towards Stalin, in his teenage years. Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian ... ...

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... promises and theories of each leader were in turn proven to be false. From Lenin's relatively optimistic and high level of support it is a long step to the words of Stalin in 1936. "Does not Marx speak of the importance of "striving and will" Why then did Marx try to develop the proletarians' "will and striving" in the socialist spirit, why ... ...

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... the alleged communist connections of many directors, writers and actors. Many of them had been members of the Communist Party or its front groups, especially in the late 1930s, when Stalin's Russia was seen as an ally against fascism. Most of those who testified before HUAC admitted their own political activities. Membership in any political party was perfectly legal, then as ... ...

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... apart from other nations(365 Mahler). Under most of Russia's dictators, the political ideology has been based on Karl Marx's form of Marxism. For example, leaders like Lenin, Khrushchev and Stalin all have based their rule and political decisions from a Marxist point of view. Because of its many leaders, the Russian constitution had been changed many times. Recently, Boris Yeltsin changed ... ...

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