Joseph Stalin

revolution depended on. They depended on workers' revolutions throughout Europe for the rise of Communism. So, Stalin set out to nationalize everything in Russia. He nationalized the industrial and agricultural structure of the Soviet Union through a series of systems called Five Year Plans. It was in these years his true self was made known to the public. There is a story that when Stalin was a kid, he was brutal. One time, it is said that, he choked and killed a calf that was stuck in mud.…

All wealth of whatever nature was taken from Hungary by the Russians who showed their power by putting thousands of Russian troops and hundreds of tanks to defend their country. The Hungarian leader, Rakosi, was put in power by Stalin of Russia; after stalin died in 1953 all people in Eastern Europe were given some hope that they might be free from Soviet (Russian) rule. Many Hungarians weren't pleased with this change of government and wanted to do something about it but they couldn’t. On…

Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin written by Wendy Z. Goldman is a powerhouse writing on the Great Purge in Stalin’s Russia. Her work focuses on the role of the masses during the campaign of political terrorism rather turning the reader’s attention solely on the role of the functionaries. Arguing that the acts of “repression” were committed by both poor workers and political party leaders wanting to prove their dissociation with the opposition. Goldman’s work becomes a pivotal addition…

In the 1940s, Josef Stalin took middle-class families from their homes in Lithuania to Siberia. The men were separated from the children and women. Fifteen years old, Lina and her ten-year-old brother and her mother were taken from their home in the evening June 14, 1941. Their father was taken from work that day. On the journey, they meet a boy named Andrius and an irritable bald man whose leg is most likely broken. The author Ruta Sepetys showed that a moral the readers could learn from…

more industrial workers in factories which the Soviet Union needed to industrialize; Soviet officials believed that collectivization would increase crop yields and help fund other programs. This led to food shortages and famine on a large scale which Stalin and his officials kept hidden during the famine at the cost of millions of additional lives that might have been saved had the famine not been covered up.…

Stalin left a lasting mark on Russia’s history. He was one of the most terrifying leaders in the world’s history, killing millions of people during his rule. His reign lasted from 1929 to 1953. His time as Russia’s leader is sometimes referred to as the “Reign of Terror”, which tells you exactly what kind of leader Stalin was. He was a paranoid, violent man which led to large scale purges to cleanse the Communist Party. He engineered a fake famine in Ukraine and created labor camps. Stalin…

pages—Stephen Kotkin, a history professor at Princeton, sets out to synthesize the work of these and hundreds of other scholars. Stephen Kotkin has a goal, to remove the fog of mystery and the mythology out of Soviet history forever. His goal in Stalin is to sweep the cobwebs and the mythology out of Soviet historiography forever. He dismisses the Freudians right away, refuting that nothing in or about Stalin’s early life was particularly unusual for a man of his age and background. Of…

Discuss the techniques Orwell uses to communicate his attitudes towards soviet Russia’s political system. George Orwell’s novel animal farm is a satirical allegory based on the events of the Russian revolution. While often mislabeled as a fable, animal farm assumes the style of an allegory, having both animal as well as human characters with symbolic references. The text was written by Orwell to warn people or raise awareness to the danger of communism, or Russia’s political system. As such…

Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Germany and Josef Stalin 's Soviet Union were totalitarian systems that both had immense control over its country for a period of time. A totalitarian system is a dictatorship that exercises complete control over it 's citizen 's beliefs and actions through every aspects of society. These two systems, reflected in On Hitler 's Mountain and Animal Farm, achieved mind control among their citizens with the uses of propaganda, rewards, and threats or purges. On Hitler 's…

Conveniently for Stalin, a reform of the history curriculum would not only improve the student’s education about their mother country, it would also allow Stalin to impose his ideology and his heroic character on the students so that they would become passionate and supportive of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union as a whole. One of the primary methods of reforming the Soviet History curriculum was through the development of a new history textbook that would replace the old one, as this…