Bolshevik

Question NO 4 How did Mackinder’s observation of ongoing conflict between sea-based and land-based power influence the development of British foreign policy? To explain this essay question about Mackinder’s observation of ongoing conflict between sea-based and land-based power influence the development of British foreign policy; Mackinder is extensively supposed as the most authoritative defender of established geopolitics, and his lessons about the Pivot of British History and Heartland are…

Originally coined in 1972 by psychologist Irving Janis, the term “groupthink” has its roots in 1984. The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology defines the phenomenon as “a condition in which highly cohesive groups in ‘hot’ decision situations display excessive levels of concurrence seeking that suppress critical inquiry and result in faulty decision making” (Aldag). Janis chose the name groupthink due to Orwell’s “doublethink” in 1984, a similar condition marked by the simultaneous acceptance of…

The Red Scare appeared directly subsequent to the closing of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution that took place in Russia. These occurrences bolstered fear of communism, socialism, and anarchism while depleting a major component of the United States economy. The widespread trepidation settled in the hearts of many Americans. Many factors in the Red Scare would result in a massive decrease in labor leading to higher wages, violation of civil rights and decreased profits. The Red Scare…

In this story, one of the goals was to relate Animal farm to the Russian Revolution that took place in 1917. The Russian Revolution resulted in a deadly toleration government that ended up being worse than the one they overthrew. Many of the characters in Animal Farm were made to portray the main parts of the Russian Revolution. The farm where this story takes place is a model for Russia, and the main characters such as, Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon, all portray the figures in the Russian…

The Trap, documentary series, has guided the pathways that the past decades has been dominated by a narrow and depressing view of freedom, upon the assumption of rationality and a distrust of political leadership. As Adam Curtis, has led the understanding both the nature of freedom itself, and the definition between what has been delivered by the political leaders and what individuals has been crying out for. Literally, ‘Freedom’ in the unfree world is the opportunity to live your…

1977 work “Hitler and the Genesis of the Final Solution” Broszat argues that their no was no direct to start the extermination of Jews, by Hitler himself. Instead Broszat argues in this piece , that it was lower level Nazi officials in occupied territories, who made the decision to start mass executions of the Jewish People in their areas, a decision that was later retroactively given approval by the higher-ups of the Nazi Regime such as Hitler . Hans Mommsen is another functionalist historian…

song “Anthem for the Soviet Republic.” In both holidays the animals or people were encouraged to participate. Snowball was scapegoated, blamed for the farm’s problems and chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs. This event represents the remaining Bolsheviks being exiled or executed by Stalinists. Napoleon had plans of improvement in order to prove his usefulness which was stealing Snowball’s windmill claiming that Snowball stole it from Napoleon, but poor workmanship caused it to fail. Napoleon…

But the campaign had caused lasting devastation, the exact numbers may never be known, but most historians estimate that millions of Russians were either executed or shipped off to the dreaded Siberian gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the…

the Tsar. Loss of esteem was important because it was something relied heavily upon by such out of date regimes to keep largely illiterate populations under control. Its loss played straight into the hands of the political opposition such as the Bolsheviks, an alarming trend that was already strong before war was…

not educated upon the Allied intervention in the Russian Revolution and the Civil War that was commencing in the years after World War One. Very few people know about the Polar Bear Expedition, the American force from Michigan that fought against Bolshevik forces in Northern Russia during this Civil War. This intervention and event played a significant role in American Politics for years to come. It shaped…