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The Soviet Union controlled most, if not all, of the countries in eastern Europe. Soviet troops were stationed all over eastern and parts of central europe due to warfare with Germany during World War 11 . Agreements at the Yalta conference gave the Soviets dominance over these countries, in which they manipulated the people and organized communist governments. United States witnessing Soviet control over eastern countries and the violation of the Yalta agreement decided to embark a containment…

the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin. From the beginning Stalin, had a clear vision of the direction the Soviet Union had to take. To Stalin, the answer to strengthen Russia was rapid industrialization. After all, Marxist theory ordained that a socialist society must be highly industrialized with an overwhelming preponderance of workers. Stalin’s rapid industrialization brought many failures that particularly affected peasants the most, but it also came to be one of the Soviet…

Joseph Stalin took over. He was very brutal to the country, and the Soviet Union was unprepared for the extreme violence and oppression. Stalin used his brutality to achieve political arms. Everyone was so terrified of Stalin that they never stood up to him, in fear of what would happen to them if they did. Then, Stalin became scared of Russia, since they became a major part of the global market. Stalin felt that he had to push the Soviet Union into the Industrial Age, so he created the Five…

The Soviet Union hit the peak of its domestic prosperity in the early 1970s, but by the late 1970s things started to decline. Economic growth declined throughout the late 70s and into the mid 80s. Furthermore, The arms race and the large military investment that the Soviet Union was involved in, contributed to a stagnating economy. In addition, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1979, was devastating to the super power. The loss in Afghanistan was embarrassing and costly for the USSR. Based…

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…

Communism in the Soviet Union was greatly feared throughout the rest of Europe. From its beginnings in Lenin to the end of it when the Soviet Union fell and Boris Yeltsin became the government leader in Russia, the Red Scare ran throughout not only Europe but the whole world. Lenin was the first to come up with the Communist party, and it was enhanced by Stalin. Stalin became a totalitarian dictator of Russia, and used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies.…

allowed for similarities in tactics to be applied. Appelbaum writes, “[t]he Soviet Union did import certain key elements of the Soviet system into every nation occupied by the Red Army, from the very beginning. First and foremost, the Soviet NKVD, in collaboration with local communist parties, immediately created a secret police force in its own image, often using people trained in Moscow… Secondly, in every occupied nation, Soviet authorities placed trusted local communists in charge of the…

The Soviet-Afghan War began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on December 24, 1979, and ended with the withdrawal of Soviet forces on February 15, 1989. It was a war that had a global impact and indirectly led to the fall of the USSR. Afghanistan in the 50s and 60s, was a country that was beginning to modernize and industrialize with the help of both the Soviet Union and the United States. As animosity grew between the two world superpowers, the U.S. quickly created military ties with the…

After World War II it was believed there were two nations that came out decisively as the far more superior out of any other nation that participated in the war. Both the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be the two nations that would eventually become the leaders in politics, military, and technological advances among any other nation around the world. Although the two nations were allies and fought together against the Axis powers during World War II, they would become rivals in…

In George Kennan's article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", he discusses the issues surrounding the Soviet Union historically and ideologically, particularly in terms of their relationship with the United States. With differing political ideologies the two super powers were asserting dominance in passive aggressive forms, especially the Soviet Union's determination to spread Socialism and overcome Capitalism. Kerman saw Soviet ideology as being layered over the top of historically evident…