General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, Russian dignitaries attempt to come together to determine the direction of the Soviet Union following the death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in 1953. Under dictatorial rule for more than three decades, a power pull breaks out among Nikita Khrushchev of Moscow, Lavrentiy Baria, the head of NKVD - Russian Internal Affairs, and Stalin's General Secretary, Georgy Malenkov, as well as with other members of a hastily assembled Central Committee. That may sound…

changing tide of battle. Three million Korean civilians were estimated to have died within the three years of war. What appeared simply as a “border dispute between two unstable dictatorships”,(SOURCE) unfortunately appeared to be the initial step in a communist campaign for power. There will be further exploration on the Cold War influence on what came to be the Korean War and devastating effects. Korea was no stranger to war, with common borders China, Russia and proximately to Japan have…

world were still at a new high, particularly between the United Sates and the Soviet Union. Before the election, scientist in the United States had tested the first hydrogen bomb, a weapon even stronger than the atomic bomb. When the Soviets found out they doubled their efforts to create a weapon just as deadly and achieved the goal less than a year later. This sparked a back and forth between the United States and the Soviets to create the most powerful stash of weapons…

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 era when Stalin's "cult of personality" rose to overwhelming prominence in the Soviet Union, as history was rewritten to make him the hero of every circumstance, his…

In George Orwell's book Animal Farm, each character has a symbolic meaning and/or represents a historical individual. When George wrote Animal Farm, he wanted to expose the evils of totalitarianism. He also wanted to uncover the lies that were told to the British by the Russian propaganda. In order to do that he wrote Animal Farm and told the story through the animals. One Of the main characters is a pig named Napoleon who is supposed to represent Joseph Stalin. When Snowball is run off the farm…

those years. The two biggest powers( U.S.A and the Soviet Union) were having that information battle that we cannot know a lot more about it. The aftermath of this war determined the stability that some of the biggest and powerful nations have today. In this stability some things like the division of the Soviet Union, the postwar in USA and the crisis that the cold war made. -The division of the Soviet Union, when some formers of the Soviet…

straightjacket” (Ronald Reagan). Communism was a Social and Economic system in which all or nearly all resources and property were collectively owned by a classless society and not by any individual citizens. The Cold War emerged from World War II as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. The Cold War with Russia was based on the fear of the spread of Communism which in turn created a culture of fear and persecution…

is more likely that dictatorship will be accepted. World War I and the events of the following years brought crisis in a variety of countries. This lead to the rise of Dictatorships. The two most brutal dictatorships after the First World War were Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Since Germany was in such chaos, they were willing to accept Nazi dictatorship. And the Great Depression also devastated their economy and this crisis forced them to accept dictatorship. Basically, dictatorship was all…

Access to special privileges was an essential part of soviet life underneath the regime of Joseph Stalin. Under Stalin acquiring goods became all about who you know. In her research Sheila Fitzpatrick comes across a quote from one of the participants in the Harvard Project who sums up the system, “One must have not 100 rubles but 100 friends.” Those lucky enough to have connections had access to special privileges and goods that were hard to come by. These privileges ranged from access to food,…

Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union were authoritarian leaders who had a major impact on the economic state of their respective countries in the early to mid 20th century. Their respective economic policies mainly focused on the industrialisation and modernisation of their countries as both countries had a relatively weak economy in comparison to the rest of the Western world at the time. Furthermore, both countries practiced autarky and rearmament as a means of…