While Stalin focused almost purely on building Russia as an important world power, he was sacrificing both the liberties and lives of millions of Russian people. ... To help his push for total collectivisation Stalin staged a massive propaganda offensive where he stereotyped the richer peasants as "Kulaks" by publicly identifying them as holding back the industrial revolution. ... Russia had advanced as slightly more hopeful economic power but Stalin had seriously halted Russia's advance in terms of living standards. ... Although they do not relate directly to Russia's advance the ...

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" He appealed to workers of the central powers to conduct their own revolution and while his pleas did not go unanswered they caused little result. ... In this period the Bolsheviks began to work together with other socialists and other countries as the expected world revolution had not occurred and would not for many years. ... Russia's foreign minister Litvinov claimed the league must be kept strong and focused on the idea of collective security. ... It was a result of Russia's lack of warfare material and an army that needed to be increased as well as Britain's insistenc...

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The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. ... Lenin as an individual played an essential role in the October revolution. From February to the revolution Lenin managed to raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. ... Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the end of October only a handful of regions remained loyal to the provisional government. ... Husband Argues that Russia used NEP as a time to heal the wounds caused by the Civil War; "Soviet Russia during NEP needed not...

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No other nation could have the attrition rate afforded to Russia by its vast population. ... The revolution in command is epitomized in the figure of General Zhukov: given greater freedom for decision making, "the man who beat Hitler" proved to be a formidable tactician. ... Believing they would quickly topple Russia, the Wehrmacht had not prepared for Winter. ... Economy The Russian war effort was a "tremendous economic and organizational achievement." ... Economically, lend-lease was "Russia's life-saver." ...

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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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Zedong and Stalin led the communists in China and Russia. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. In the case of 1984, totalitarianism is established after a revolution occurs. ... The dictators normally do not allow citizens to possess weapons so that, in case of a revolution, the government can quietly and easily put it down. ... There have been many totalitarian states throughout the course of history including Germany, Italy, Russia, and China. ...

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Stalin also maintained his power throughout all of his economic policies, unlike Mao, who after the Great Leap Forward re-established himself through the Cultural Revolution. ... Collectivization policies produced famines in both China and Russia. ... The social revolution portrayed by the Culture Revolution and the necessity to get rid of the four olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas. ... An educated work force was essential to create a socialist industrial society and it was given a priority so that the next generation of workers were skilled enough to continue Russia&#...

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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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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Germany had invaded Russia twice this century and should not be allowed to recover. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolsh...

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