Joseph Stalin

The evil King, who was rumored to have set up the assassination of his mother, father, and brother. The King ruled with power over his poverty stricken and plague ridden kingdom. There was mass amounts of peasants who lived off of bread scraps and leaves. Those who lived, lived in huts made out of the trash that was thrown onto the streets. He believed in no other God but himself. He would torture, burn, and kill the people who opposed him, there was also large grey-brownish from the smoke of…

Long Telegrams Paper In a series of correspondences known as the Long Telegrams of 1946 an ambassador of the United States and an ambassador of the Soviet Union state their interpretations of the current international situation back to their governments. Both sides are biased not only from their nationality, but also their individual ideologies. Nevertheless, the Long Telegrams serve as a useful reference for crafting a better understanding of the turbulent Cold War era and the beliefs that…

existed a chance in 1949 whereby the United States could detach the People’s Republic of China from the Soviet sphere of influence. Chinese diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union were too intimate despite the tensions that arose between Mao and Stalin throughout the late 1940s. The cultural and historical context that the Chinese Communists evoked when dealing with the Western powers had a deeper impact than the material aid and support offered to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, unless the…

Gramsci led a leftist walkout at the Socialist Congress at Livorno in January 1921 to establish the Italian Communist Party and then spent two years in the Soviet Union. He then returned to Italy, and became head of his party. In April 1924 he was elected to the country’s Chamber of Deputies. After his party was banned by Benito Mussolini’s fascists, Gramsci was arrested and imprisoned in 1926. At his trial the fascist prosecutor strongly affirmed, “We must stop his brain from working for 20…

Corruption and manipulation have many times been a part of civilizations and countries in history. One of the most remarkable leaders who fits this profile is Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm in order to show his point of view, as a socialist, regarding the Soviet Union, giving us a closer look of how Stalin's rule was affecting the Russians. By creating characters for many relevant figures in the Soviet Union, Orwell was able to create a literary piece of work…

Comparing|Contrasting animal farm with Lord of the Flies: “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies. The speech was said that by one of the boys. What the boy meant by the speech was that they were not able to control themselves so they started acting in a savage way. (I found this quote in goodreads). Animal Farm is about an unspecified Animal farm and Lord of the Flies are both related in savagery, and power. There is Snowball, and Ralph. There is…

About the author Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of immense integrity. He belonged to an era of communists shaped by the Russian Revolution and the Second World War, an era that ruled leftwing politics for right around a century including Hitler's triumph in Germany in 1932, trailed by the Spanish common war, spellbound legislative issues all through the landmass. Ralph joined the energetic Jewish-communist youth association Hashomeir Hatzair (Young Guard), whose individuals later…

The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran from 1925 until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown as a result of the Iranian revolution. The Pahlavi dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade. The elder Pahlavi reigned until 1941. He was succeeded by his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russians no longer considered Iran as a prized territory. This left the British…

The war that raged in Korea between 1950 and 1953 did not begin as a huge international conflict during the Cold War, but would eventually become that once the United States and other countries decided to get involved in the Korean Civil War (Office of the Historian). Korea, throughout its history, was owned by other countries. From 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan had control and influence of Korea as a whole. Because Japan was on the losing side of World War II, the future of Korea…

Lenin (Russia) 1917-1924 Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the third of six children. His parent were well educated, and he also attended high school. During the high school, he showed a particular gift of Latin and Greek. When he was a boy, his father was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society. In 1887, his big brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a…