NKVD

His appearance among the defendants was strange and imperative to understanding the trials. As stated earlier, Yagoda was the head of the NKVD, but was replaced after he could not find enough evidence to arrest Burkharin. After his removal, Yagoda was later detained and charged with working with Trotsky. He was also incriminated with being a fascist, traitor and spy. His arrest was so important…

According to Ollman, Marx believed that “capitalism was a volatile economic system that would suffer a series of ever-worsening crises—recessions and depressions—that will produce greater unemployment, lower wages, and increasing misery among the industrial proletariat. These crises Ollman state will convince the proletariat that its interests as a class are implacably opposed to those of the ruling bourgeoisie. Consequently armed with revolutionary class consciousness, the proletariat will…

For the citizens of Russia, their civil rights were constantly challenged and changed between the years 1855 and 1964. Between the autocracy of the Tsars and the borderline-dictatorships of the Communist leaders, through the 1917 Revolution and the Purges of the 1930s, the civil rights of many were compromised, while others’ civil rights were maintained or increased. For the majority, the actuality was a fluctuation rather than a straight increase or decrease. While equality was claimed at…

After WWII tensions between the East and West would intensify following US concerns over Soviet plans for expansion and global influence, along with Russia’s attitude towards the West, which had put a strain on any peaceful co-existence that the US may have envisioned. Similar to US concerns, Russian Kremlin Joseph Stalin had also viewed the Western world as a threat to the long term goals of communist Russia. The creation of government agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and the KGB had been formed…