Known as the 'Concerning Monuments of the Republic' Lenin signed on April 12, 1918, 'The Removal of Monuments Erected in Honor of the Tsars and their Servants and the Production of Projects for Monuments to the Russian Socialist Revolution', in which former monuments of Tsarist Russian would torn down and replaced with "outstanding persons in the field of revolutionary and social activity, philosophy, literature, science and art" (Bown 20). ...
Throughout the period of 1917 to 1941 the majority of the many changes in soviet foreign policy were not results of pre-determined ideology, but rather a pragmatism that resulted from the varying situations. It can be seen that the Bolsheviks, although conclusive in their thoughts often determined t...
Before any state can ascend to the status of superpower a shared philosophy, or general direction, must first be established. 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. The similar...