Joseph Stalin And The Cold War

Russia can be seen with an abundance of Communist tendencies, especially in the days of the Cold War and Joseph Stalin. Communism is often denoted by authoritarian leaders and cruelty, both of which Russia had during this time period of the USSR. The Cold War was a reaction by the United States to the spread of Communism as based in Russia or the Soviet Union, as it was known in those times. Beginning around 1947 and spanning to the early 1990’s, the Cold War was not so much as a war, but more of a competition of which ideology was better. They had ‘races’ in arms and space, and even had kitchen wars which were debates over which nation had better kitchens to offer their citizenry. Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union over this …show more content…
Liberalism, communism, socialism, and religion create opposition such as hostility in a country as well as positive effects such as improvements in social services. These ideologies impact how a country is viewed by its people and how those citizens are treated. While some of the ideologies have some similarities, the differences cause much tension between countries, such as the United States and Russia, even to this day. it seems that liberalism has won out the most countries as roughly seventy-five percent of all countries are at least somewhat democratic, fifty percent are completely democratic and free. This indicates that today’s world is saturated with freedom and civil liberty. Liberal countries value freedom, communist equality, and socialism a mixture. Religious countries stand alone with values based on their own holy book. The effect of these political ideologies range through the positives and negatives in economic, political, and social impacts. Social impacts are the most easily measured in the treatment of the citizenry and the rights that are given to those same people. Political effects are seen easily through the leaders and the economic effects through the distribution of wealth inside of a society. Other effects of ideologies are in world relations. Some ideologies are viewed by the world powers as more desirable than others. Communism and socialism are usually the two to get a negative connotation as those with human rights issues and a lack of quality economy. Overall, the point of a political ideology is to give a country direction in how to treat their people and how to deal with their economic progress, as well as to serve as an example for other governments.