Over time, the regimes ideology focused on a concept of a purely Russian nation, resulting in many German ethnics, Chechens, Tatars, and Koreans being targeted. This continued up until the 1950’s, throughout World War Two and leading to the fall of the USSR, corroborating his statement. This argument however, is a popular one which doesn’t provide much new information, Syrine C. Hout is someone who supports this, viewing the information supplied as something experts and those reading into the subject will already be familiar with, as his writing is nothing short of refreshing . This is a common statement, however another sub-argument brought up throughout this book is how utopia leads to disaster, this is something that could have been explored greatly, yet Weitz skims over it making the argument within this book slightly weaker. Weitz’s use of a variety of sources, for example trial records, memoires, novels and poems to explore his argument, which provide insight and accuracy to the genocides discussed.…
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder argues that in the geographic region that he entitles “Bloodlands”, the area between Germany and Russia, during 1933-1945 under the Stalinist and Nazi regime resulted in over 14 million deaths committed by brutal regimes. His hope in this book is to look at the two regimes and how they respectively killed so many citizens but also to give Eastern Europe the attention it has not yet received from a historical perspective and demonstrate that there was than just the Jews who were killed before and during the Second World War in this area. Snyder does this by beginning in the 1930s with the Ukrainian famine and ends with the continuation of anti-Semitism in the post war era. In doing this, Snyder has brought this era of history to the forefront of the public psyche as he demonstrates in an innovative way the effects of two totalitarian regimes on the Bloodlands.…
On a recent trip back to my homeland of Argentina, where my family resides, I experienced first-hand social injustice. Witnessing the luxury that the “villeros” were taking advantage of at the expense of innocent tax payers inspired me to write my exploratory essay on. The only accounts of injustice I know of are what my family relays to me; therefore I needed more substantial and factual evidence. This led me to an article titled “Working to Ease Later Poverty”, by Drew Fagan. In which he describes the living conditions of the people who live in these villas miserias.…
On September 30, 2016, twenty-nine year old Jose Cado, walked into a liquor store with a sledge hammer and took a woman hostage in South Los Angeles. The woman’s name is still unknown. Cado managed to get the woman in his car, but escaped due to the kidnapper not wanting to get involved with the store owner or police. According to ABC news , some witnesses claimed the woman was not screaming for help; however, others state that she was.…
Cesar Chavez, in his essay pertaining to the Floridian farm worker’s movement for more just treatment, argues for the importance of nonviolent resistance as a civil, moral, and powerful method of promoting social change. Chavez supports his argument by illustrating the inevitable consequences of violence opposed to nonviolence and rationally explaining the effectiveness of nonviolence as a catalyst for change. The author’s purpose is to illustrate the overwhelming advantages of nonviolent resistance, as opposed to violent and destructive resistance, in order to persuade people of all wealth classes that the most civil and beneficial way to address problems in which reformation is needed, specifically the farm workers’ cause, is aggressively…
Massacre of Tlatelolco’s Analysis Exactly Forty-seven years ago, on October 2, 1968, a large group of students filled the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco where the Mexican government massacred hundreds of these harmonious protesters and making of this event a dark day in history. The Mexican government’s actions shocked many people throughout the country because they did not expect the Mexican government to massacre the students with so much aggression and force. The Mexican government deployed about ten thousand armed troops to surround the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and they started to shoot at the students without remorse. Hundreds of the students, were killed right in the plaza and many others died from the wounds because the Mexican government prevented doctors from treat…
The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo were direct victims of oppression. They were not only obvious victims of violence, but also victims of gender exploitation, powerlessness, and cultural imperialism as described by social justice theorist Iris Young. After reading Marguerite Bouvards “Taking space: Women and Political Power,” I have concluded that powerlessness can in fact be overcome, civil disobedience can work to bring awareness to grievances, and a three part strategy, as outlined by David Meyer, is a very important part of effective social justice movements. Author and social justice theorist, Marguerite Bouvard introduces us to The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who were a group of women in Argentina whose children were “disappeared” through militarized government acts. Bouvard sheds light upon the topic of the mothers and how they overcame their oppressors.…
The Monster Called Oppression: An Argumentative Analysis of Night Tragic events occur every day, but these events rarely hold the power to rattle the whole world. The Holocaust is one of the rare events that did manage to rattle the world and all of the people within it. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel recounts the biographic story of his scarring excursion through the Holocaust. Elie starts by describing life before the war, and he gradually informs the reader of his experiences and the changes caused by the war.…
She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.” (5). This brutal end draws parallels to the greats of Soviet history, including the revered revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who, having succeeded in bringing socialism to his homeland, is killed by his opponents that saw him as too ‘great,’ and dangerous to their equal power. Just like Diana Glampers, Joseph Stalin knocks down the unequal citizens that simply cannot be controlled. In the name of equality, the very best of humanity are destroyed, and with them the only hope of lasting individual freedom and achievement.…
In the book, Weavers of Revolution by Peter Winn is the aspect of the Chile revolution through the eyes of the Yarur workers. The book covers the aspect of how the Yarur workers understood and reacted to the Socialist government lead by Salvador Allende and how the worker's perceived and said into participating in the revolutionary process from 1971 to 1973. The book also covers the important aspects Chilean Revolution that is revealed during the readership. Titles of books reveal the essence of the story. During this Analysis of the book Weavers of Revolution, there will be a discovery of the essence of the book and why the book is called Weavers of Revolution.…
Social change occurs when governments abuse their citizens and fail to give them the rights they deserve. The unfairness of life in many societies around the world are instigated by the dictators who rule them. One of the cruelest periods of societal oppression in the world, however, happened under Trujillo 's rule. Trujillo’s regime resembles one which is power-hungry and a strong manipulator of the people. Trujillo got into power by kicking the current president out of office and claiming the presidency.…
In the article “Childhood in the Roman Empire” by Ray Laurence, the author goes into detail describing the trials and tribulations of children of the Roman Empire. This article expresses a significant level of focus toward the depiction of children’s life in the ancient Rome. Laurence determines few of the disturbing aspects of childhood, clarifying that the children of the ancient period had to live their difficult life suffering a lot of complications. These notably included the witnessed worsening conditions of the children that considerably involved endless work, violence, sickness, and death.…
The tragic history of violence against native women starts with colonialism. The taking of the land is also a metaphor for the body especially that of women. Many native women had a lot of control over land and thus when taken so are bodies. To discuss one without the other would to be leaving out a true representation of the violence which has taken place within the United States. Overall, the main point of this paper is that the violence of native women and the process of taking land is deeply connected and taking back the two is a deep part of the activism being done by native women.…
Many individuals think that the most successful way to resist opposition is through violence. In Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth’s article, Why Civil Resistance Works, they challenge the view of violence being the most effective form of opposition. Their main argument is that nonviolent resistances’ are more successful. They state, “…nonviolent resistance is a forceful alternative to political violence that can pose effective challenges to democratic and non-democratic opponents and at times can do so more effectively than violent resistance” (Stephan and Chenoweth, 9). Nonviolence resistances are civilian based methods to wage conflict through nonviolent means.…
Later on in his career, Pinochet met Salvador Allende, a young Chilean senator who was a socialist. Their relationship grew and eventually, Pinochet was promoted to commander in chief of all Chilean armed forces on August 23, 1973 (Dinges, 47). What Allende didn’t know was that he shouldn’t have trusted Pinochet. With the people of Chile in the streets and the economy in shambles, the military, under Pinochet’s control, made a move to take over the government. “On September 11,1973, less than 20 days after he was made commander in chief of the army, Pinochet ordered his troops to take Santiago and ordered an air strike on the presidential palace” (Dinges, 76).…