A form of a secret police force keeps the populace in check and terrified to rebel. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... The secret police of 1984 are known as Thought Police. ... With similar means as violent as this, the secret police forces of totalitarian nations are able to keep the citizens well behaved and loyal to the party. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace under control and terrified to rebel. ...

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The establishment of the secret police, the Okhrana was successful to an extent in preserving autocracy during 1855-1900 as they prevented earlier assassination attempts on the life of Tsar Alexander II but did not achieve complete control on revolutionary movements who used terror. ... However under the Soviet rule between 1917-1955, secret police institutions like that of the OGPU, NKVD, Cheka and Red army to an extent, were rather used to inflict terror on the Russian population to suppress opposition and preserve autocracy. ... Democracy was banned and a one-party police state was es...

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Not to mention the intimidating authority existence of a Soviet-style, secret police. ... Government intervened using force, President Niyazov had held many high-profiled polical prisoners. ... In August, the police stopped 200 women from entering the capital where they intended to make their complaints directly to Niyazov. In trukmenistan there are only 2 religions aceptable and legal, Sunni Islam and Russian Orthodoxy however; the police have halted their raids on privately house-held prayer meetings. ...

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The October coup of 1917 that resulted in the Bolshevik consolidation of power revealed that all the party's efforts had been directed towards preparing for revolution, however little attention has been given to the details of how affairs would be organized after this was accomplished. Russia was es...

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The assassin--who had been hired by the secret police, the NKVD--was shot, along with all his close relatives (this would become a typical Stalinist tactic). ... This was followed, in January of 1935, by the arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev themselves, along with a number of their allies; they would be tried in secret, accused of having "inspired" Kirov's assassination, and given long jail terms. ...

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Stalin set up his own secret police, NKVD, that were extremely obedient and given unlimited power. ... The secret police arrested and executed thousands of party officials and ultimately established Stalin as the absolute power. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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They are police governments- police state governments" Such claims may be true, but the United States should have respected the diversity of politics. ... Right off the bat the American government viewed him as a threat and had already started planning to secretly overthrow or remove him from the Cuban government, so that he may be replaced by one in which they thought would be better. ...

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"The dictators could not collect all the units of real output without police measures: security guards, transport police, market inspectors, enterprise and ministry accountants, ministry and Gosplan sectors of material balances"(Harrison). ... The organizations were secretly supported by western government. ...

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The Bolsheviks In 1903 a new socialist group was formed. This new group, known as the Bolsheviks, eventually became the ruling power in Russia. With the leadership of Lenin and his supporters, such as Trotsky, the Bolsheviks were successful in creating a new communist state, even in the face of ...

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The Okhrana, or the 'protective section' were a group of secret police that helped Nicholas main autocratic rule, silencing those who criticised the Tsar and censoring books and newspapers. ...

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Stalin and Stalinism Stalinism is an everyday term for the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. This system is an extreme case of totalitarianism. The foundations of Stalin's theory were: socialism in one country, and aggravation of the class struggle al...

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In considering the influence of Lenin's leadership on the Bolshevik seizure of power and their subsequent retention of power, it is better to separate the two events. Lenin was an inspirational revolutionary, contributing greatly to the Bolshevik seizure of power. However, he held less influence and...

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The Bolshevik dictatorship established after the October Revolution was very quickly faced with numerous monumental crises. The civil war against the various anti-Bolshevik forces, the paralysing economic crisis, and the widespread political discontent were all dangerous crises that had the potentia...

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In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of terror" Joseph had his secret police send over 25 million people to the gulags and over 1 million executed and 7 million died in the gulags , these people were sent to the gulags and murdered because Stalin was paranoid of enemies and conspirators so he had whoever he thought was suspicious send to the gulags or murdered. ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...

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The emperor thwarted any form of opposition by employing the secret police forces and so the freedom of expression was really limited and this included the spread of information through the newspaper, and even books. ...

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