Citizens were watched, spied on and were basically at the mercy of the high-ranking communist officials. ... First, Stalinism can be defined as "Communist Party rule, Marxist- Taylor 2 Leninist ideology, rampant bureaucracy, leader cults, state control over production and distribution police surveillance, terror- (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 3). ... The Communist party, among other things, demanded loyalty. ... Personally, I think Fitzpatrick did an excellent job of portraying the realities of the communist society and the hardships for Russians in the 1930s. ... The famine, the short...

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The Soviet was trying to spread its Communist idea while the Americans tried to prevent Communist from spreading. ... A group of mostly wealthy and democratic societies that led by the United States was engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic, and at times, military competition with a group that were the poorer communist societies associated with the led by the Soviet Union. ... In the post Cold War, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic, but they are cultural. ... People define themselves in terms of religion, language, hi...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. ... One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ...

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In this paper I plan to compare and contrast the ideologies behind the political and economic practice of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. ... Stalin altered the principle issue of worldwide Socialist revolution, a very important point regarding Lenin, to a more region defined idea of: "Socialism in One Country." ... In 1935 Stalin published A Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party. ... The next section is an examination of these ideologies put into practice. ... War Communisms shelf life only lasted to the end of the civil war when Lenin went agai...

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Soon after WWII, Germany became divided into East and West, communist and capitalist, GDR and FRG. ... The Soviets brought the Communist Party in control and the French did not allow the formation of parties at all in their zone. ... In an excerpt in 1948 British foreign minister Ernest Bevin describes the relations between a flourishing Germany and a Europe being immune against the communist thread. ... In his speech, Truman is very concerned about the people in those countries losing their freedom if the communists take over. He also talks about consequences and how important these countrie...

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For the officially defined period of forty five years the US and the USSR have been in the state of war; however no direct confrontations ever emerged between them on either territory. Each state had its ideological mission, its networks of alliances and third war clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. ... 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. ... Two superpowers with a compl...

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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 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. ... The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confr...

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Lenin's death in 1924 gave way to a fierce struggle for power developed among the members of the Politburo (the ruling body of the Communist Party which decided its policies) who had to choose which of them should take his place. The main contestants for the leadership in this crisis were Stalin and Trotsky who developed an ideological and political clash that was about to change the direction of the Russian history. ... Trotsky and Stalin also had different ideologies. ... Party members seemed to prefer Stalin's ideology. ... As a result of Stalin's propaganda Trotskyism was...

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Power can be defined as the right to exert control over a certain group of people or objects (Merriam-Webster, 2014). ... Hard power can be defined as a nation's ability to use military force or economic incentives in order to influence the choices and behaviours of other nations (public diplomacy, 2013). ... Soft power was defined as the capability to get what is in the nation's best interest through the means of attraction rather than intimidation (Nye, 2004). ... Hitler began to invade European nations in hopes of spreading the Nazism ideology. ... In 1946, the United Kingdom had ...

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The definition of a cold war is an 'intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict,' (Dictionary.com, 2014), and in this context the nations were the Soviet Union and the USA. The Vietnam War was a result of the Cold War between the two countries and is defined as 'a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the US, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam' (Dictionary.com, 2014). ... So even though the Tet Off...

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Mongolia was an economic colony of the Soviet Union until early in the 20th century. Consequently between 1921 and 1990 it had an economic system which reflected the Soviet's control : it had a centralized, socialist political system and an economy based on central planning and collectivization. Under the umbrella of the Soviet Union Mongolia had made significant progress in improving the general living standards of the population, specifically in the areas of education and public health (Tsogtsaikhan: 2003:1). The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 resulted in Mongolia shifting dra...

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Many defined Bolshevism as a personal pledge to Lenin where Menshivism to a lesser extent by those who opposed him. ... The 2 factions demarcated themselves in terms of their ideologies, strategies and tactics. ...

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