Joseph Stalin

Public transcripts are characterized by the state sanctioning of certain idealized forms of action that citizens should take, and are demonstrated in social norms of politeness, parades, and holidays. Hidden transcripts are characterized by the private critiques of the official transcripts and are put into action through rumors, gossip, ritualistic aggression and the creation of autonomous space form the oppressed population. Coded transcripts are the attempts of people to ascertain how…

While researching the beginnings of Mao’s single party, communist dictatorship over China, I noticed strong similarities between the Communist Chinese Republic and the Soviet Union. During the rise of the Communist Chinese Republic, the Soviet Union had already gained status as a World Power. As a result, Chairman Mao idolized the Soviet empire, and utilized it as a model for the Chinese Republic. In order to attain a similar empire to the Soviet Union, the Communist Chinese Republic required a…

Introduction Failed illusions by Charles Gati examines the events leading up to and surrounding the Hungarian uprising of October 1956. Gati argues that all the major players in the drama failed to provide adequate if any reasonable leadership. Throughout the drama the USSR gave vague and often conflicting orders to their Hungarian satellite. The Hungarians responded by attempting to fulfill their soviet overseers orders to no avail. The Hungarian leadership then was thrown into turmoil, and…

Elliott Meeks Jean-Claude Duvalier was a corrupt Haitian president who ruled with absolute power. He used fear to control and manipulate the entire country of Haiti. While he was president he tourcherd and killed everyone who got in his way; nothing stopped him from keeping his power. The use of fear to manipulate and stop at nothing attitude is a central theme in Card’s novel Ender's Game. Card suggests the dangers to society of having a win at all costs attitude when it comes to power. He…

essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles." Hitler didn't want to risk a war with USSR7 on his way, so he proposed a non-aggression term with USSR, in which both nations were to be benefited. Stalin understood that Hitler would declare war on USSR sooner or later because of their conflicting ideologies8, and agreed to sign that pact in order to delay the war and buy the Soviet Union more time to prepare the army. He was also interested in…

With Reference to the story ‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov, trace in detail, the imprisonment of the lawyer, the beginning of the first year right down to the fifteenth year. Justify the changes that the lawyer underwent at various stages of his imprisonment. What changes did you see in the banker during this period? The Bet is a short story written by Anton Chekhov, who writes based on realistic characters and situations. A wealthy banker and a young lawyer make a bet with each other based on…

mimic that of the Russian revolution. The farm is ruled by a cruel man named Mr Jones. The animals get fed up with his cruelty and rebel. They then run the farm with Snowball and Napoleon (the farm pigs) as the leaders. Napoleon is an allegory for Stalin and Snowball is an allegory for Leon Trotsky. The actions of both characters reflect those of the Russian rulers. This essay will focus on the two characters Snowball and Napoleon and discuss the truth they reveal about human nature and The…

contains the theme of totalitarian society and shows how it is possible to replace idealism by dictatorial rules. From 1936 Orwell wrote just works which were against totalitarian and for democratic socialism. In the novel Animal Farm he criticized Stalin´s rules in Russia. Due to political reasons it was not a good time to criticize Russia and therefore in 1943 – 1944 many publishers in Britain and the USA refused to publish his works. Despite this fact the novel became very successful. It was…

Old Major and Lenin died before the revolution started and two others took their place, Snowball & Napoleon/Trotsky & Stalin. They took the leadership and started the revolution, but Napoleon/Stalin was wily, they wanted the power themselves so they got Snowball/Trotsky out of the way (even if they did the most work) and did so the people/animals forgot them. Then Napoleon/Stalin started to take more charge and became the only leaders, they also abused their power totally. Then they were…

The death of Stalin was an emotional and chaotic time for those living in the Soviet Union. Stalin’s true “cult of personality” showed itself when tens of thousands of Soviet citizens travelled to Moscow in order to see and pay respects to Stalin’s body. Soviet citizens wept in the streets and left roses and wreaths for the deceased dictator. After Stalin’s the party had to decide what their next actions were going to be. Post-Stalin leadership was very nervous of Soviet people and did not want…