In the history of mankind there are countless men whose names have been synonymous with power, greed and above all, evil Joseph Stalin or Iosef Vissanionvich Dzhugaskvilli would become one of these men. Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... His mother who was very religious sent Joseph to a church school. ... Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means neces...

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Stalin and Stalinism Stalinism is an everyday term for the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies and condemned Stalinism. ... Stalin was initially opposed to te overthrow of A. ... Stalin would quickly switch sides and join with Bukhrain. ... Nonetheless, for Stalin this was not mission complete. ...

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Under the regimes' of Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicolas II to an extent, terror was not used as extremely as the likes of Lenin and Stalin in the later period of 1900-1950. ... It can be argued that the forces of reaction were most successful in using terror to preserve power under the regime of Joseph Stalin 1929 -1955. ... This then supports the viewpoint that the preservation of power under the rule of Stalin was majorly due to the intensity of his terror. ... Stalin's execution of his generals shows terror abused, which eventually worked against him causing him to lose c...

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Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snowball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. ... It is evident that Orwell had three main targets for his novel: the brainwashed, unknowing public during the revolution, the ruthless power hungry leader Joseph Stalin, and the bamboozling media. ... It was during this time that the media deceived the public into thinking that Joseph Stalin ...

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This, obviously, is a reference to Stalin, who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... Although he is most directly modeled on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more general sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during the twentieth century. ...

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The definition of Russia's "new society" is troublesome, and it could be said that Russia's new society began after the 1917 revolution and ended in 1928, when Joseph Stalin came into power. ... But they were just oppressed again under Bolshevik rule and then under the USSR with Stalin. As an example to show the oppression of the peasants in the post-revolutionary society, Stalin's five year plan which was successful in creating an increased grain quota in the 1930s, but it was at the cost of starving millions of Ukrainians, with between eight and twelve million dieing from st...

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This means that a rare above average man needs to take the steps to become supreme leader and guide the people in the way they see best fit, as did Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. ... Also many people under Stalin's law were unaware of the mass killing of Kulak's. ...

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Having seen the horrors of Nazi Germany, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and Stalin's Communism, Brecht begins to incorporate political questions regarding science and its advancements into each of his writings. ...

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At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ...

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When this pact was put into action right away something was going to go wrong such as Adolph Hitler gains power in 1933, Joseph Stalin begins his Reign, and Mussolini rises from the ashes of Italy's economic depression. ...

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Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original inhabitants of the area of modern-day Burundi were probably the Batwa (Twa), a subgroup of the Twide pygmies. The Bahutus compose nearly 85 percent of the population in Burundi. ...

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King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful jo...

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"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." This is a direct quote from the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was formulated to ...

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Again, an essential political thinker: Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 believed that democracy "is an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote- (capitalism, Socialism and democracy p269). ... When one thinks of an autocratic government now, it is hard not to associate it with the human costs of despotic rule rival to those of disease, famine and war, also immediately associating the thought with such leaders such as Stalin and Hitler who were responsible for the deaths...

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