From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. ... Stalin's regime involved a series of plans for change with regards to the Soviet economy and culture. ... The first major obstacle faced by Stalin was the prominence of the opposition. ... In order to promote this plan Stalin set about implementing a series of five year plans. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolution. ...

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Sosso (Stalin's schoolboy nickname) was an excellent student. ... Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. ... Stalin was highly unimpressed by Lenin at their first meeting. ... In May, Stalin was sent to Petrograd (St. ... She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39. ...

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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. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies and condemned Stalinism. ... Stalin was initially opposed to te overthrow of A. ... Stalin would quickly switch sides and join with Bukhrain. ... Nonetheless, for Stalin this was not mission complete. ...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... It was at this time that he adopted the name "Stalin," meaning "steel one." ... Even in his final years, Stalin remained dangerous. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ... (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated respon...

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In 1922 Lenin gave Stalin the position of General secretary of the central committee of the communist party, This position gave Stalin the power to appoint people were loyal to him key jobs in the Party. In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... In 1939 Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler that they would divide the eastern European countries and would not fight each other in them though his advisors told him that Hitler would not stay true to this treaty and attack Russia Stalin ignored...

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Political and economic failures of previous decades were combined with the concept Stalin's cult of personality. Khrushchev marked four problems with this phenomenon: - Violations of law and mass repression; - Failures and subjective decisions of Stalin during World War II; - Breach of the principle of collective leadership in the Party; - Stalin's actions aimed to exalt his role in the history of the Party and the state. ... Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so diffe...

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Cominform created tension between the two sides because now that Russia had gone back on their agreements from Potsdam Stalin needed to coordinate how these countries would be ran. He specially chose the leaders of each country she didn't want anyone to independent minded and need people who were totally loyal to him so that they didn't make any decisions without Stalin's approval. Stalin set up Comecon, as seen in the source, in 1947 which was a key factor that caused relations from 1946 to 1949 get worst between the USA and the USSR because this was set up by Stalin so that t...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... By doing this with the argument of war Stalin kept his rightist support and reunited the Communist party behind the Five Year Plans, massively increasing Stalin's personal power whilst discarding the rightist's power. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... Stalin was shown as the master, forcing t...

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Stalin scrawled a big mark on the document with his customary blue pencil. Churchill was impressed, thinking that was a successful conference where Stalin could be relied upon. ... This might explain why Churchill hoped that a special agreement with Stalin could constrain the actions of Stalin. ... Consequently, this policy prompted Stalin to occupy as much space as possible in the Eastern Europe. ... Therefore, Stalin's motivation was more conventional, believing that whatever Soviet Union gets should be determined by the extent of losses it had endured, and this prompted Stalin to appro...

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On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power and domination over the world and attempted to "contain" communism. ... It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. ... They believed with this blockading and the setting up of anti-western governments in Eastern Europe that Stalin had plans of expansion, which threatened their monopoly over the world and felt that they needed to retaliate. Ho...

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Stalin urged Churchill and Roosevelt to open a second front. ... Stalin alleged that the Western allies were deliberately holding back a second front to weaken the Soviet Union. The Stalin Hitler Pact of 1939 did not help the Soviet Union in gaining trust from the West either. ... Stalin understood that the United States wanted to cripple the Soviet Union by weakening its economy. ... Stalin agreed to the "Declaration on Liberated Europe" - ba...

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After WWII, peace was restored throughout Europe, however a growing rift between Stalin, Truman and Churchill already threatened it. ... This second front was important for Stalin, as it would help to take the pressure off the Russians on the Eastern Front. ... When America had created nuclear weapons, it was destined to win the war with Japan as well as to create leverage with Stalin. Truman hoped that Stalin's discovery of the American nuclear capability might stop Stalin from extending his communist expansion throughout Europe and influence Stalin to agree to America's plans. ... ...

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After Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin came to power and effectively he ruled as a totalitarian dictator. Stalin controlled most of the political power in Russia and began a series of purges to remove all non-Communists from office. ... Under Stalin, all private ownership had ended. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. Khrushchev would openly denounce Stalin and his actions because they were unnecessary and harmful to the Communist party and the Russian people (Harris). ...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... At the time of the Yalta Conference, both Roosevelt and Churchill had trusted Stalin and believed that he would keep his word. Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... However, at Yalta, they gave into Stalin. ... Roosevelt got Stalin to sign the "The Declaration of Liberated Europe-, and for this reason presented the Yalta conference as a great achievement. ...

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... This operation would also help to reduce Stalins suspiciousness of the West by showing that they were not content to leave the actual fighting to the Soviets. ... This infuriated Stalin. ... It was Stalins belief that a united Slavic people would prevent such an event from ever recurring.9 Though American-Soviet relationships seemed to be on a downturn for the worst following Stalins unilateral recognition of the Lublin Committee, the Yalta conference...

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The USSR's leader, Joseph Stalin, was not fond of this idea and wanted to push the Western allies away so that he would be able to take full control over the city of Berlin and consequently the rest of Germany. ... Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany" This would give the USSR edge over the Western allies in the fight for control over Berlin and consequent...

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A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ... On July 25, 1945, two month after Germany has surrendered, the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry...

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However, their focus is in the ideology of Stalin in particular, and the Stalinist regime. Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests that it was Stalin's policies coupled with the Soviet totalitarian government that drew the West into an escalation of hostility and an arms race. ...

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What manifested was an unprecedented conflict of ideological misunderstandings, broken promises, suspicions, and changing players (i.e. deaths of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). ... They ascribe blame to both the US and Soviets for being responsible, it does put more blame on the Stalin for perpetuating the conflict. ...

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With the announcement from the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin in 1949 they too had the nuclear capability to launch a weapon with the same devastating power. ... Once Stalin died, Nikita Khrushchev took over the Soviet Union. ...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day of 1991, was a great disappointment to the hopes of many revolutionaries. But the question that flusters even the greatest of communist minds is: why did it collapse? The complicated situation boils down to the primary causes being political and eco...

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August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day of 1991 was a great disappointment to the hopes of many revolutionaries. But the question that flusters even the greatest of communist minds is: why did it collapse? The complicated situation boils down to the primary causes being political and econ...

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"From almost every point of view, economically and militarily, in absolute and in relative terms, the USSR under Brezhnev was much more powerful than it had been under Stalin... Either they could continue the hard-line, socialist policies set forth by Stalin and embraced by Brezhnev and fall into a pit of worthlessness, or the Soviet Union could try and integrate itself more into the world society moving toward entente. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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