Congress of Soviets

high school history class, did atomic weapons cause the cold war, or at the very least, accelerate it? According to many historians, the Cold War was a conflict of two main objectives; the development of nuclear weapons and the fear of communism and soviet expansion. With these two key characteristics, it is only logical to say that the Cold War was a spawn of both of them combined. It began as a struggle of competing ideologies and the Stalinist view of complete and utter domination in Europe…

Chapter 3.3 - How Stalin aimed to establish Soviet Security with the ‘Iron Curtain’ and Eastern buffer zones surrounding the USSR As the Second World War had drawn to an end Stalin had two main immediate aims; the economic recovery and reconstruction of Soviet territory backed by reparations, which was already partly covered in the previous segments. The other was to establish a Soviet Sphere of influence in the occupied Eastern European countries, as a means of making a ‘buffer zone’ against…

herself in a state of despair in 1945 due to the economical, political and physical damage the war had caused ‘Wohin wir blicken. Ruinen, Schutt und Asche […] Die Wirtschaft ist desorganisiert und völlig gelähmt.’ In the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Union, the Western powers and those within each Allied regime had different views on the way in which Germany’s future should be shaped. This was particularly evident at the Potsdam conference, with the introduction of the currency reform and…

of the doctrine was containment providing economic and financial aid to countries who needed support for “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures,” as Truman stated to Congress to get the doctrine approved. The Soviets noticed too that Greece was the only Balkan state not under full communist control and wished to change this at the same time President Truman was allocating aid to by his words, “resist aggressive communism around the…

when worn-out Russia got rid of the tsars, Lenin quickly returned home, denounced the Provisional Government which was assembled by the bourgeois parties and established the Soviet government. In late 1917, Lenin led the October Revolution where three years of civil war followed. His Soviet government faced big odds- the anti-Soviet forces or Whites. These were mainly formal tsarist and admirals who fought desperately to take down Lenin’s “Red” regime. At this point, there was massive civil war.…

provisional government . The other group left are the soviets which were socialists, and the branch of socialists known as Bolsheviks, take control and end the war by signing the Brest Litovsk treaty . They award nobles land to the poor, nationalize banks, and give factory workers the rights to the factories . The Russian revolution and the Bolsheviks rise in Russia was significant because it led to a one party dictatorship, communist led Soviet Union arising in 1922 . This not only saw the rise…

Chiang and his followers were force to flee the mainland the Peoples Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949 was formed with Beijing as its capital. The communist rule of Losif Stalin in 1928 through 1953, strengthen the rule of Russian dominance, of the Soviet Union which cost the lives of millions of people as well in the creation of the countries foundation.…

No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the…

Chekhov analogizes the Empire with a prison in his novella, Ward No. 6. Hence the term “critical realism” was characterized by Chekhov and Tolstoy. Socialist realism, however, was conforming to the Communist state: it “affirm[s] positive aspects of Soviet society, and exalt man…

Democrat in 1903, resulting in his joining of the Mensheviks at the Second Part Congress. He would split with them not long after. In 1905 Trotsky become the chairman of the St Petersburg Soviet, which would later be raided resulting in exile. Trotsky would then return to Russia in May 1917, only to join the Bolsheviks, the enemy of his former allegiance. Trotsky would be appointed to Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet by Kerensky in October of the same year. In November Trotsky became the…