Austria-Hungary naturally harbored a fear of Russia and seemed to operate under the expectation that a Russian clash was as inevitable as a Serbian clash. ... The height of those concerns coincided with the winds of revolution beginning to blow across the Russian nation. ... For Russia, it was a simple matter of backing/protecting their ally, Serbia. ... With the Russian military dealing with the rumblings of revolution and the wavering certainty of the Tsar, France could help to keep potential German attacks in check. Likewise, if the Kaiser set his sights on France, Russia could mobilize...

• Word Count: 1352
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... By giving them new, structur...

• Word Count: 5589
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 5151
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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." ...

• Word Count: 2415
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... The Triple Entente was completed when Russia joined in 1907. ... Russia responded to this attack by partially mobilising and going to war against Austria-Hungary in order to protect their Slavic relatives, which was followed by Germany's demand that Russia demobilise immediately. The Russians refused Germany's demand and the Kaiser declared war ...

• Word Count: 1859
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Italy and Germany had been unified not many decades earlier, Britain was enjoying the beneficial effects of an Industrial Revolution, and France was angry and thirsty for revenge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. ... The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. ... Russia opposed this move, due to it's Serbian alliance after the Bosnian Crisis, resulting in Germany entering a war with Russia, and shortly thereafter with France, Russia's ally. ...

• Word Count: 621
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1072
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 3287
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These men claimed to want only stability; furthermore, they claimed to view revolution with horror, yet they were themselves in a sense, the most ruthless revolutionaries the world had ever seen. ... Most cities in Russia were destroyed by the Russian themselves as to avoid leaving any goods for Napoleon. Russians intended to leave nothing for the enemy, so they raid through the country destroying all the villages and all source of resources; to illustrate, Kovno, Vilna, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Viasna, Gzatsk, Borodino and Moscow were among the cities brought down to ruins. ... While fighting with ...

• Word Count: 1357
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We clearly see the many nationalities of the soldiers that were held captive in these camps, ranging from Russians to French under the authority of the German soldiers. ... The "Austro-German", "Franco-Russian", "Anglo-French" and the "Anglo-Russian" alliances or ententes banded the countries in a mesh that would being all of them into the war once one of these countries went into aggressive conflict. ... We see the three main characters introduced in the film clearly representing the different classes during that period of time – De Boiedieu as pa...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... This was written before Karl Marx's Das Capital or the 'Communist Manifesto' and long before the Bolshevik Revolution, which leads us to think that the conflict between these countries i...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... His conclusion was that "the main element of any...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Russia is in temporary decline. ... For over a century the national interests of China have been reflected in the following foreign policy objectives of communist China: (a) to preserve the national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America or any of her power; and (d) To regain for China the status of a world power commensurate with the greatness of her civilisation. ... The foreign policy objectives of a commun...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

France seemed confused, but was ready to support Russian intervention against Austria-Hungary. Britain, pressured both by France and Russia, was undecided until it officially announced its military support to them. ... France and Russia had their own pact. Adding to these treaties, aiming for a Balance of Power, where the secret ententes between England and France, and England and Russia. ... In Britain, France and Italy, "liberalism [ ] was heavily besieged" whereas Russia had labor problems to deal with. ...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the fight to stop the flow of the "Red Tide". ... In this light, the factors that helped lead to the Korean War are: First, the division of North and South Korea post World War II along the thirty-eighth parallel with Russia overseeing the North and the United States overseeing the South. ... Truman was forced to re-evaluate the future of the corporative relationship with Russia (Cumings 1983:68). ... When the Russian army moved into North Korea, the Koreans in Pyongyang welcomed...

• Word Count: 3532
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... President Truman then made a rather offensive statement to the Soviet Union claiming them to be just like Hitler's regime was, "There isn't any difference between the totalitarian Russian government and the Hitler government they are all alike. ... e hand at Russian cities and industrial centres. ... Castro's 26th July Movement, was established to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, and to create the Cuban Revolution. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation impo...

• Word Count: 1866
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideology has been linked by some scholars to the socially radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, but others see it as a reactionary extreme-right conservatism against the 19th-century ideals of the Enlightenment (RoSo, 2002). The motivation of fascism is also disputed as either being one of aspirations (for a cultural "regeneration") or of anxieties (e.g. for a communist revolution); both of these points of view are legitimate (RoSo, 2002). ... For example, Hitler aspired to conquer Eastern Europe and Russia, hoping to prove the racial superiority of the Aryans over the Slavs and to ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, it was not only Germany, for the rest of Europe, recognising the growing threat of Germany and its aggressive foreign policy also began to take steps towards militarising their countries, the British budget for armaments more than doubled in the years running up to the war despite their championing of appeasement, and, one of the main incentives for Russia in the Nazi-soviet pact was that it would afford her time to reorganise her military. ... Before the outbreak of WWI the economic state of the countries involved was not major issues, Europe was booming in the post industrial revolu...

• Word Count: 2024
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate