General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Eitan Schiller Dr. Sclar History Paper- Final Draft May 18, 2015 The Marshall Plan On June 5, 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall spoke at the Harvard graduation. The speech he gave would come to mark the turning point in American history. Marshall proposed a plan that would offer billions of American dollars to distraught European countries thereby establishing an unprecedented level of US peacetime involvement in European affairs. This plan to “save” Europe was called the Economic…

regard to the Cold War and the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Carter administration, was the Reagan administration who had a hard stance on the Soviet Union. In the first months of Reagan’s administration he implemented PSYOP or a series of US psychological warfare against the Soviets. The “operations consisted mainly of air and naval probes near Soviet borders.” This confused the Soviets and kept them on their heels; they were forced to react and…

Big attention and focus on the military industry. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union continued to build up the military industry, allocating huge grants for research in this area. As a result, in the 80s, when the whole world successfully mastered light industry, the USSR continued to focus on armament. Of course, the amount of…

might strive to make the world a better place, through vigorous organizations that fix society’s problems willingly. One world leader who continues to contribute to society is Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev was an influential leader in the Soviet Union and continues to be one through his work in many different charitable organizations. His work helps people all across the world and helps keep the environment clean and preserved. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, known as Mikhail Gorbachev,…

between the United States and the Soviet Union. Each country had their own ideologies about how to rebuild Europe after the war. President Truman and the Russians leader Joseph Stalin were in disagreement on how to divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on imposing communist governments loyal to…

century, the United States knew no greater enemy than the Soviet Union and during this time, both nations took drastic actions in an effort to bring about the downfall of the other. One such event occurred in 1979, when the Soviet Union dispatched its military into Afghanistan to quell a nationalist uprising against the newly-instated communist government. Naturally the United States supported this uprising, an action that ensured a Soviet defeat and ultimately an end to the Cold War. These…

aspiration of communism was based on his desire to give Russia’s highly centralized political structure an opportunity to implement its program of equality and industrialization (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 874)”. “For him, the party was not the mass movement envisioned by Marx but rather the discipline, armed vanguard that ruled monopoly power and instilled the ideology of communism in gradual expanding working class (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p.…

COMMUNİST PARTY OF GREAT BRİTAİN(CPGB) Communist Party of Great Britain organised in 1920 after Third international decaded.Third international means is Communist international or international communist organization.İnternational communist organization decaded to establish communist party all world so Communist Party of Great Britain established. According to Klugmann CPGB established in 1920 because ''the war ended. The brief post-war boom swiftly turned into the deep post-war depression. The…

Introduction The Soviet Union, or the USSR, has had its fair share of leaders since its conception on November 7th, 1927. Throughout the Cold War alone there was a total of seven leaders. Arguably, one of the most famous of the seven leaders was Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was the last head of the USSR, and many believe he was to blame for its ultimate downfall and the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union. There are a variety of viewpoints when it comes to the leadership of Gorbachev. Two…

power vacuum inside the Communist Party, which held the power in the newly formed Soviet Union. The hole that Lenin left was filled by Joseph Stalin, a revolutionary who had been a steadfast ally of Lenin for the past two decades. Effectively operating as a dictator, Stalin instituted an ideology and policies collectively known as “Stalinism” that allowed him to lead the country without any opposition. This was radically different from…