The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than just a political event. ... The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. ... Stalin controlled most of the political power in Russia and began a series of purges to remove all non-Communists from office. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. ... March 1985 marks a turning point in the Communist rule in Russia. ...

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Foreign relations and the communist scare were the centerpieces during Truman's presidency. One of the most important tactics to counter communist influence was the introduction of the Marshall Plan (Divine 670). ... From a political standpoint, the Americans believed that Communist China was behind the attack of the 38th parallel (Ferrell 112). After China was passed under Communist control in 1949, the Marshall Plan was willing to give Nationalist China 400 million dollars for economic and military aid to fight off the Communists (Ferrell 113). ... This meant at any time, the Koreans co...

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The Soviet propaganda promoted Marxist and Leninist ideology in order to promote the Communist Party and its leader, Stalin. ... The red flag is associated with Communist Party. ... The socialist utopia was to mold the young into a generation of committed Communists. ... The plan consisted of spreading the ideology of the Communist Party through literature and other disciplines. ... "The major purpose of the Communist propaganda was to arise violent political emotions against the regime's enemies....

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Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. They had to explain to ordinary communists why they glorified Stalin before, but now they began to accuse him of all "deadly sins." The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during Tito's visit to the USSR in June 1956, led the country's top leadership to find answers to the problems caused by Khrushchev's...

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This worsened relations between the USA and USSR because the Truman Doctrine was backed by the Marshall plan which supplied money to countries that were part of the Truman Doctrine and this was directly helping countries not to become communist and therefor directly went against Stalin's idea of Soviet expansion. ... Stalin set up Comecon, as seen in the source, in 1947 which was a key factor that caused relations from 1946 to 1949 get worst between the USA and the USSR because this was set up by Stalin so that the eastern European and communist countries could easily trade between withou...

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Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. Though he agreed with many Marxist values, Orwell couldn't really accept the communist understanding of socialism because he saw many similarities between the communist governments and the previous tzarist regimes in old Russia. ... In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ...

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After successfully removing the opposition the communist party led by Stalin launched a major revolution through the next decade that did not end until every class and member of society was suppressed. ... As a result of this all members of the communist party were of the agreement that industrialisation was a necessity. ...

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In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. In 1922 Lenin gave Stalin the position of General secretary of the central committee of the communist party, This position gave Stalin the power to appoint people were loyal to him key jobs...

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For example, when the British foiled the attempts of seizing power by the communists in Greece, Stalin indignantly agreed with Churchill's attempts, which gave the signal that the West should not have any right of questioning any actions that would be adopted in Bulgaria and Romania. ... However, for all its disrepute, it should not be acknowledged that the 'percentages agreement' is decisive for the Balkans' political future as a whole, and Stalin's subsequent policies demonstrated that he wanted to push the British out of Eastern Europe completely, depending on the ...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others woul...

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Truman hoped that Stalin's discovery of the American nuclear capability might stop Stalin from extending his communist expansion throughout Europe and influence Stalin to agree to America's plans. ...

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" This short passage on page 5 in the "America, Russia, and The Cold War, 1945-1966" book shows a Soviet Union unwilling to cooperate past war time causing tensions between the so called "ideologies of the West" and the USSR's Marxist-communist views. ...

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Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... In order to rally the population around him, he blamed a fire in the Reichstag building on Dutch communists, which caused a "Red Scare ", and allowed for him to easily win the election. ...

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In his rise to power, Stalin held a number of senior administrative posts within the Soviet government and party apparatus, becoming in April 1922 general secretay of the ruling Communist Party, a post which he subsequently built up into the most powerful in the country. ...

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In addition, due to Chinese Communists" enamouring of Stalin, Lysenko's pseudoscience and Stalin's collectivization techniques were launched in China without any examination, which brought China disastrous results. ...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ...

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