In this paper I plan to compare and contrast the ideologies behind the political and economic practice of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. ... Furthermore it must be brought to attention the staggering time differences in Lenin and Stalin's time in power (Lenin ruled for six years, while Stalin ruled for almost thirty). ... In 1935 Stalin published A Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party. ... Lenin mostly used these tactics on external forces while Stalin used it on everybody. The best example of Stalin's violent excess can be seen in his...

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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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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This is where people would be aided, on the basis of social needs. The final goal, Communism is based on a class-less society that will be profitable for the vast majority. ...

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