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). Lenin had understood that pure communism was only hurting Russia, not making it the promise-land that everyone had originally anticipated. ... The Tsarist regime was overthrown to make Russian society better for its people, but they ended up being worse off under communism. ... It is so tragic that the Russian people were lead to believe communism wou...

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Under Lenin industrialisation was initialised by aiming to recover the economy from the toils of war and the necessary policy of War communism. NEP was Lenin's response to the economic depression caused by War communism. Shortly after the introduction of NEP the effects of War communism became evident, the great famine of 1921-22 caused some 5 million deaths. ... A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.... As a result it is nearly impossible to not see Stalin as a definin...

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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. ... Proactive steps to prevent such a take over from happening as propaganda would spread across America leading to a romanticized relationship between this fear of the spread of communism and at the same time, ensuring domestic support for support nuclear weapons testing and proliferation.9 But as the scare wore on, a new school...

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The society we live in today is defined by capitalism, the two are inseparable and work hand in hand. ... Capitalism is defined by two important aspects; that is, market exchange and private property. ...

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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). ... This essay will begin by defining both hard and soft powers and examine the complex interaction between the two; it will then go on to prove that one cannot apply soft power without applying some form of hard power and vice versa. 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...

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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. ... However, the West saw Soviet occupation in the Eastern Europe as an act of aggression and feared that Russia would go on and invade the Western Europe, that argument can be proved by the "long telegram" send by the US diplomat from Moscow: he argued that Russia would always look for the opportunity to extend communism throughout the world and that America should be prepared to help "freedom fighters" and to ...

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