Communist Party of the Soviet Union

resistance taken relied on a sense of solidarity among the workers. For example the use of strikes and absenteeism from work, both of these actions only held any weight because they were collectively acted upon by many workers. Although much larger on the Soviet side, strikes played a role in opposition in each of these empires; these strikes allowed large groups of workers to express their opposition to the conditions being faced by workers. On a contrasting note, individuals also played…

new Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, did not reinstate the terror of the Stalin years; however, he sought to strengthen the role of the party bureaucracy and the KGB and encouraged the further clampdown on reform in the satellite states. In 1968, disaffection with this step backward led to the emergence of a reform movement in Czechoslovakia. The main goal of this “Prague Spring” was to bring about a more humanistic socialism within certain limits, such as keeping the nation within the Soviet…

this is what happened to the red giant, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, the soviet giant that Ronald Regan referred to as the “evil empire” spanning across about a third of the world, was forged in the fires of revolution and ultimately going from the tyranny of the Czar system to the red communism that Vladimir Lenin introduced. Even with decades of the Soviet Union in a power struggle with America and capitalism, on December 25, 1991 the Soviet Union seized to exist and broke apart into…

Leon Trotsky’s exile from the Soviet Union meant he had to travel to numerous countries while trying to find asylum. He finally found asylum in Mexico. This is a picture depicting his arrival in Mexico with his wife Natalya Sedova. Frida Kahlo came to greet them upon their arrival and let them stay in the Casa Azul (Blue House). Trotsky was later assassinated in Mexico. This photograph depicts how famous Trotsky was at the time. This international fame led Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, prominent…

Identification and evaluation of sources The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan was a military expedition executed by the Soviet Union through the years of 1979 to 1989. The invasion was considered extremely controversial by many countries and even the residents of the Soviet Union thought it was controversial as well. The question for this investigation is: “Was the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan executed to help out the unstable Afghani socialist government or was it just Soviet imperialism?” Due…

hostility between the Soviet Union and the western powers. In 1948, Truman created a massive airlift in response to the Soviet Union’s blockade of West Berlin. In 1949, he created the military alliance with the western nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. With increasing tensions with the Soviets, he issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 that expressed the US intention to aid any country threatened by communism. Therefore, he sent aid to Greece and Turkey when the Soviets were…

S. entered the Korean War to defend South Korea from a communist invasion. The U.S. and the United Nations decided to adopt a Rollback strategy and overthrow the Communist North Korean regime. 11. Term: Perestroika/1980s Definition: One of Gorbachev’s economic reforms to pop up the centrally planned economy and his attempt to reduce corruption. Significance: This was to make communism work more efficiently and meet the demands of the Soviet people. 12. Term: Glasnost/1980s Definition:…

to racing against the technological advances of the USA, the Soviet Union constantly maintained its position as a great power in the world throughout the twentieth century. Under Stalin’s dictatorship, nationalistic propaganda and anti-capitalist sentiments inundated the people, spurring the country into the cold war. As World War II ended and the new cold war began, Stalin’s tightening grip on the government was felt across the Soviet nation as labor camps reopened, artists denounced, and…

engineering. During his time at City College that Julius became involved with the local chapter of the Young Communist League, a recruiting wing of the much larger US Communist Party. Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg was born in New York City on 28 September 1915, the daughter of Russian immigrants. Ethel worked as a secretary and began a close friendship with Julius during the Young Communist League meetings they both attended. Since its formation in 1929, the US chapters of the…

social thinker named “Communist Manifesto” in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. Stalin became an underground political protester in labor demonstrations and strikes. The First central Committee of the Bolshevik party was Stalin who was recommended by Lenin. Pursuing this further, in 1922 Stalin became the secretary general Central Committee of the Communist Party. After Lenin died Stalin became in power of the communist then dictator of the Soviet Union. Nazi, Germany was…