Soviet Union

Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. There are a few contributing factors as to why the Soviet Union won the battle against Nazi Germany. I am going to just list a few of the most important contributing factors as to why they won the battle. One of the advantages that the soviet Union had over Natzi Germany is that they were fighting on their own territory this gave them an advantage not only because they wanted to…

invade the Soviet Union in 1941? Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 for several reasons, the most extenuating factor in the decision making process to invade the Soviet Union was the desire for Lebensraum. I will also be taking into consideration there standing in the Second World War at that time, the economic factors, Hitler’s racial ideology and his hatred of communism. I will then come to a conclusion upo my finding summarising the reasons behind the invasion of the Soviet Union. In…

No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the…

Which of these sources is more valuable in explaining why there were differences between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union? Source A, a speech by Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain Speech’ and Source B, taken from an interview with Josef Stalin, both point that there were differences between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union – but one is more valuable in explaining why than the other – and in this case Source A is the most valuable. Source A is a small sample taken from the…

There were high tensions between the Soviet Union and America after the Second World War. Propaganda in the United States showed intense hatred of Stalin, and therefore the Soviet Union. Although the world leaders met and cooperated with one another, they had different opinions on the majority of topics, leaving several conferences with unanswered questions. The Yalta conference was one of those conferences that showed the dissimilar beliefs of Stalin and Roosevelt, The Korean War also proved…

evolution of the Soviet Union. The new Secretary General of the Communist Party was Nikita Khrushchev. Between 1956 and 1964 there were significant changes in the USSR, although the essence of the organization of Soviet power remained. The destalinization initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in condemnation of the wave of terror imposed by the government of former leader and in recognition of the mistakes of the government in economic matters, gave way to the beginning of a new era in the Soviet…

The Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev was very different place than the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. While these leader faced similar problems, their methods of repairing the Soviet Union differed greatly. While Gorbachev was open to change Brezhnev was very conservative and unwilling to reform. Brezhnev remained in power for eighteen year, but its was Gorbachev that completely changed the landscape of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under both Gorbachev and Brezhnev faced…

the Soviet Union’s industry as a whole, especially the nuclear industry. Eventually, the dissent generated from the Chernobyl incident and the discovery of its lack of safety lead to the shutdown of all RBMK’s in the Soviet Union outside of Russia. Ultimately, the Chernobyl incident was the beginning of the international fear of “using bombs to generate electricity.” On the day of the second anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Russian scientist Valery Legasov committed suicide. Upon his…

ethnic diversity of the Soviet Union to be a source of endless fascination, a topic I could spend countless hours on and never grow tired of. The cultural and ethnic diversity of the Soviet Union has been a passion of mine ever since I found and listened to an old CD with the different anthems of the various Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs) such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Byelorussia. I am captivated by the diversity and cooperation of the various states within the Union and the satellites…

Nevertheless I didn’t expect to convince you, but the continuance of uninterrupted thought was expected, unfortunately [quote]Do you even know anything about the Soviet Union and it's policies? If you did you would understand how flawed your comparison is[/quote] I’m not sure if you’re rendering Russia faceless by applying Soviet Union. However until informed otherwise, I will assume you're an expert, but getting back to the issue. Your argument has a stake in elevating Finnish snipers.…