To what extent were the forces of reaction successful in using terror to preserve autocracy and dictatorships in Russia and the Soviet Union 1855-1955? ... With pressure from the bottom during the late 1800's via terror intensifying, the Russian soviet revolutionaries were able to use terror to push the state for what they wanted rather than the state use terror to preserve a dictatorship. ... Historian Lionel Kochanii argued that 'Bloody Sunday is to be one of the key events which led to the end of Tsardom and also the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... Additionally the defeat of R...

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Following Lenin and Trotsky's revolution and reign in Russia, Stalin began his massive political, social, and economic changes in 1928 with the First Five Year Plan, which was designed to cause rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. ... His words show how similar to Peter the Great's desire for Russia to be westernized, Stalin wanted the same thing and he went about this by industrializing Russia. ... Using the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain as a example, Stalin caused a agricultural revolution by his process of collectivization, which created collec...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. ... Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ...

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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 would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World...

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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. ... This, obviously, is a reference to Stalin, who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. ... From a symbolic point of view, the windmill represents the enormous transformation projects undertook in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution. ... Orwell uses his characters not only to portray leaders form the Russian revolution, but to also emphasize his main point of the novel. ... Even though Napoleon is always...

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From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolution. ... As a result 2.1 million Kulaks were exiled from Russia, 2.5 million were resettled and another 1.5 million fled to other regions. ... Russian production increased by 250% between 1929 and 1933. ...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... Both men desperately wanted Russia to catch up to the western European states. Both succeeded to an extent, turning Russia temporarily into Europe's leading power. ...

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Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was...

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Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... Joseph spoke only Georgian until he was 8, when he learned to speak Russian. ... 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. ... The grim time that Stalin's advisors...

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Gomulka, the revolution in Hungary had shown that the result of "de-Stalinization" launched by Khrushchev, was a severe crisis in the socialist camp. ... He said: "People will say that as long as Stalin was, everybody obeyed, there were no shocks, and now, after "they" came to power, Russia was defeated and lost Hungary." For many people, it was clear that the death of the Hungarians and the Soviet people during the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 was the direct consequence of the Khrushchev's report and his ill-considered actions. ... In all, we can say that Khrushche...

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The color itself is symbolic and represents the appeal to the war and revolution. ... The fact that Russian cinema was one of the most artistically advanced in the silent production era points its high production value as propaganda. ... " During the early revolution, religious people were considered enemies of the nation. ... The atheist education was the main target in the Russian schools, by denying all form of religious beliefs and promoting a nationalist identity. ...

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Truman barely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. ... The end of World War II was also the end of a wartime alliance between America and Russia, as Truman and Stalin could not agree of the division of Europe (Divine 666). ... The overreaction to possibility of Soviet danger only fueled the fire of the rising Cold War and the rising fears the west believed about Russia. ... This was a perfect time for North Korea to begin a plan of attack, as they gained support from the Russians and the Chi...

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