... seemed to stop as quickly as it started and the remaining Bolsheviks began to relax, thinking the trials were a one-time aberration. Unfortunately for them Stalin was planning massive attacks against the Bolsheviks and anyone who supported them (Purge 2). This newest attack was called "The Trial of the Sixteen" (Purge ... these trials was just as evil as the trials themselves. There are several accounts of people disappearing during the night never to be seen again. Stalin saw these people as a threat to him personally and politically. Two possible fates awaited these people. One was ba...

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... , a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. He would continue to read other books, including the works of F. Engels and V. I. Lenin. In 1899 Stalin dropped out (other sources say he was expelled) of the Tbilisi Theological Seminary to become a full time revolutionary. His career in the Social Democratic party began as a propagandist among T"bilisi ... would stay in power. This smart move also helped him defeat his biggest threat and the foremost candidate for Lenin's position Leon Trotsky. Once the threat of Trostky was eliminated, Stal...

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... for the USSR to blossom into a industrialized country in record time. This massive growth allowed for the USSR to gain respect and credibility from the West, which was one of Stalin's most important underlying motives. However, despite this massive success, Russia was already in a decent standing regarding their national economics. In Germany, however, Hitler revived a dead Germany economy, crippled by the ... expectations for the near future. His system did away with unemployment and the boom and depression cycles of capitalism, but there was no economic equality. The most noteworthy a...

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... reign by rebuilding the factories that were destroyed during the civil war and the rest of his economically ingenious plans shall be revealed later in the paper. Stalin used a variety of ways to industrialize the Soviet Union and a few of them are "5 year plans," propaganda and economic growth. He used these to ... towards economic growth because with more people being able to read and write there was more options open for jobs and more machinery could be used. Stalin doubled the work force by allowing woman to work on it and thus doubling the amount of capital being produced by selling t...

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... capitalists. She was beaten by the Japanese barons. All beat her because of her backwardness, military backwardness, cultural backwardness, political backwardness, industrial backwardness- (Internet Site 3). If Joseph Stalin had not introduced measures to rapidly industrialise Russia before Nazi Germany invaded in June 1941, Russia would have completely defeated and its army swiftly destroyed as it would not have ... implemented serve industrial reforms to dramatically bring Russia from a mainly agrarian market to an industrial power, Nazi Germany would have inflicted a severe defeat on ...

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... into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. Prior to Stalin's reign, the Economic Policy allowing peasants to own farmlands and decide what to produce was established through Lenin. Small private businesses were allowed ... . This rejected Economic Freedom, Private Property, Self-Interest and as well as Competition since the state controlled the economy--since it is in Stalin's plan to have a command economy or a system in which the government makes all the decisions involving the economy of the nation-...

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... . To the western world, this success looked as if it were the beginning of serious Russian aggressions. The western view of the time saw Stalin as doing one of two things: either continuing the expansionist policies of the tsars that preceded him, or worse, spreading communism across the world ... represented a union of all of the communist states within Europe, including representatives from the French and Italian communist parties. Even within this communist structure, Stalin had to exert his influence. It was not enough for a state to be merely communist: it had to adopt the Russian-st...

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... year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. Churchill, attended several crucial summits, and in October 1944, he visited Moscow for having talks with the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. As the Soviet army had already effectively occupied Poland, Churchill knew that he could do little for Poland. However, Churchill knew he could secure a 'percentages agreement', which Churchill ... 2011), he made no objections regarding the 'percentage agreements'. 5. Comment on the Usefulness of the Document According to this document, it appears that Churchill left a distinct impressio...

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... instrumental in their decision not to attack Russia in 1941. Had they attacked, it is unlikely the Soviet Union could have survived a war on two fronts. Early in the war, Stalin's insistence on "last stand tactics" often lead to soldiers' remaining in untenable positions resulting in drastic Russian casualties exemplified in Kiev where 660,000 encircled soldiers were captured. His deference ... the Germans hands, whilst allowing Russia to rapidly rebuild its armaments economy. It was further aided by the release of one million workers from the Gulags. In this chaotic time Stalin's totali...

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... at Yalta, Crimea, a port/resort. The three main individuals at this meeting were Churchill of Great Britain, Roosevelt of the United States and Stalin of the U.S.S.R, known back then, and now known as Russia. Roosevelt had two primary goals at Yalta, and he secured them both, during the ... also a very will strategically placed country. So, at the Yalta conference it was discussed whether Poland would be allowed to have free elections. Stalin was greatly opposed to having supervised (by the Americans, British and Soviets) election in Poland and so. Another matter of great importance and ...

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... postwar settlements were discussed such as German disarmament and reparations, and the Curzon line was recognized as Poland's frontier with the Soviet Union. Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. Critics of the agreements that each nation's leaders negotiated hold that it partitioned the world ... East and the West. After the agreements reached at Yalta were made public in 1946, they were harshly criticized in the United States. This was because, as events turned out, Stalin failed to keep...

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... , the allies agreed that Eastern Europe should become a sphere of influence but still there was notorious disagreement over the ruling of Poland. Stalin wanted the Russian border to move west into Europe. He argued that Poland's border could then move westwards into Germany. Churchill and Roosevelt ... On 12th April 1945 Roosevelt died, replaced by the vice president Harry Truman, a bitter anti-Communist. He was much more suspicious of Stalin than Roosevelt. When Germany surrendered American troops began to move to the Pacific and Soviet superiority in Europe was overwhelming. However the...

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... had largely collapsed and inflation was out of control. After its surrender, Germany was divided into four zones: American, French, British, and Soviet. Despite the differences of the Big Three- Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill- they agreed on some important matters. The old capital of Berlin was also divided into four zones, but Berlin itself remained deep inside of the Soviet zone ... . Overall, the purpose of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly stable western democracy. However, East Germany was establishe...

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... 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 ... worked out America's aims during the war in the "Atlantic Charter". These included a United Nations (UN) Organisation to keep world peace, although Stalin had not taken part in these discussions. American's believed strongly in democracy and were deeply hostile to communism...

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... discovered 4 500 Polish corpses in the Katyn forest. German Investigators had concluded that the corpses were Polish prisoners who were brutally massacred by Russian Soldiers. The Germans blamed the Soviets. Stalin promptly denied any accusations for this barbaric act . As the Germans publicised what they had discovered Russia had immensely affected their status, as a result Western Europe had more of ... open contradictions. Truman (president of USA) was furious about the reparations required and that Poland would have a socialist government. Truman had a nuclear bomb however he didn't ...

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... bombs. Surprisingly, despite the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at the time, when Truman discussed with Josef Stalin about the use of the atomic bombs on Japan, Stalin reacted rather supportively. "Truman: On July 24, I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. The Russian Premier showed no special interest. All he said was ... that he was glad to hear it, and hoped we would make 'good use of it against the Japanese'" (McKain, pg 171). The nonchalant response from Stalin to Truman's words, surprised everyone at the Potsdam ...

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... democratic capitalist continent that it could influence. The USSR wanted to spread Communism and prevent the disasters of World War II recurring again. While Stalin was a brutal and ruthless dictator responsible for millions of deaths, feared and resented by many eastern Europeans, he actually did not intend to ... to safeguard the USSR. This meant that the Eastern Nations were to be "satellites- for the USSR. America mis-interpertated this as first signs of Stalin's desire to conquer the world. Therefore, America began to be afraid and began seeking drastic measures such as rebuilding Ge...

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... and capital. The lack of productivity was also rooted in the general inefficiency of a communist economy and the subsequent reluctance of workers to strive for greater output. The traditional pattern, Stalin's pattern, was very wasteful. In the 1970-1980 period, available manpower increased by 24 million people. In the 1980s, the increase was only 6 million. The economy was in rapid decline ... a long way off, however, as many Russian leaders put higher priority in military spending and less into domestic programs. Condoleeza Rice contended that the increases in the military expenditures...

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... in arranging to photograph him at the Kremlin on July 31, 1941, she must have been scared. While she was waiting in front of Stalin's office, she checked her equipment and stuffed many peanut flashbulbs into her pocket. When she was shown into his office where he was meeting ... his height that looked nothing like the statues of him all over Moscow. She took another look and decided that there was certainly nothing insignificant about Stalin. She knew it would be hard to loosen him up and make him at ease. During their meeting, a lucky accident occurred. As Margaret knelt ... picture fr...

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... decision to drop the atom bomb. However, some believe that the decision to test the bomb and later drop it was motivated by a desire to scare the Stalin-led Soviets, and dissuade them from taking over Europe. Truman urged the military commander of the Manhattan Project, Gen. Groves, to guarantee that the first testing ... small Soviet atomic bomb group to work harder to compete with the Americans. The belief that Truman decided to bomb Japan in order to frighten Stalin is supported by the idea that Truman did not need to bomb both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if what he solely wanted was to f...

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... took place between the two, diplomatic and economic struggles occurred. The Cold War began when the leader of the Communist Party, Joseph Stalin, used the Red Army to take control of most of the countries of Eastern Europe. The United States as well as Western European ... United States provided aid to Western Europe after World War 2, in June 1947. The Marshall Plan was offered to all European countries, but Stalin would not let the countries that his military was occupying participate. In April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. ... were the United States, ...

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... underestimated the Soviet's need for security and this was what led to the misunderstanding over the intentions of the Soviets. Also as expressed in Stalin's Two Camps policy, the USA and the USSR were very different and had contrasting beliefs so conflict between the two was inevitable. The ... if they did not back down the USA would bring in atomic weapons. There were also policy issues and different attitudes in the USSR. Stalin had died in 1953. The struggle for power after his death was intense but Nikita Khrushchev became First Party Secretary. He was supposed ... to be sharing po...

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... of conflict and tension arising after WWII is an issue involving the atomic bomb. The U.S. flaunted this technology to Stalin during the war and Stalin of course, passed it off coolly saying "good for you, use it against japan," but anyone can speculate what Stalin had to have thought in his mind. If the U.S. had a weapon of such incredible destruction, then Russia would ... lose it's foothold as the worlds "other" super-power. So of course Stalin puts his foot down on development of his own Atomic bomb. The U.S. knows this and sees the opportunity to come out on top in the world. We pr...

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... Germany had been defeated in 1945 the war time allies between the USA, UK and the USSR began to break up. A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. In ... revisionists would say that those actions were only defensive and were justified after Russia had lost about twenty million soldiers and civilians in the German attack. Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, ...

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... Revolution. Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Farm allegorizes the rise to power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. In the novel, the overthrow of the human oppressor Mr Jones by a democratic coalition of animals quickly gives way to the consolidation of power among the pigs. Much like the ... Soviet intelligentsia, the pigs establish themselves as the ruling class in the new society. The struggle for preeminence between Leon Trotsky and Stalin emerges in the rivalry between the pigs Snowball and Napoleon. In both...

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