The Bolshevik's crushing of the Constituent Assembly and subsequent outlawing of all other parties showed that they were not prepared to share power. ... Every Bolshevik activist suffered at the hands of the cheka (secret police) and no opposition within the Red Army was tolerated, with execution being imposed for desertion or disloyalty. ...
One person or an elite few who share similar views are usually in charge of the state and impose their totalitarian views upon the citizens. ... 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. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace under control and terrified to rebel. ...
Despite a fundamental difference in the decision-making abilities of the two regimes, the Bolshevik's and the Tsarist regimes shared one important similarity; the agents through which their responses were enforced were very much the same. ... Fitzpatrick states that "there clearly were strong elements of continuity between the Tsarist and Soviet secret police", but that is where the similarities end. ... Thus, whilst sharing similar forms of coercive agencies, the two regimes were vastly different in their response to crisis, and their respective abilities to adjust to changing ci...
Before any state can ascend to the status of superpower a shared philosophy, or general direction, must first be established. ... 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. ...
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. ... The second was the Social Democratic party, who wanted revolution to overthrow the Tsar and to share out wealth equally according to the needs of each individual. ...
Theoretically, landless peasants would be the biggest beneficiaries from collectivisation, because it promised them an opportunity to take an equal share in the labour and its rewards. ... During this period, the practice of mass arrest, torture and imprisonment or execution without fair trial of anyone suspected by the secret police became commonplace. ...
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. ...
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 Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...
His two orders for the garrison defending the capital were first to avoid further damages to the city by surrendering, and second to form a secret military organization. ... They did not allowed other allied nations to directly use their sources, but the Poles openly shared intelligence. ...
Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... Americans viewed the Soviet denial of the Yalta agreements as enmity between the two nations, which could in effect develop into a war, with the power to destroy humanity, hence both the United States and the USSR shared responsibility for the origin of the Cold War. ...
Obviously there are many aspects that influence film and its development. The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contemporary film making. - German Expressionism and Formalism, both of which occurred in the 1910's and mainly in the 1920's. Both these movements resulted in influential developments in film theory and a distinctive body of films that are still considered important by nowadays film makers. E...
It was agreed that Germany should be disarmed, demilitarized and divided into zones, to be occupied by Britain, USA and Russia, the French to be cut out off the Anglo-American zone Berlin was to be divided into zones as well and shared out amongst the above countries. ...
