This clear discrepancy between reality and the attitude of animals suggests that the latter have evolved into self-controlled beings that have opted for self-discipline as a survival mechanism in the new political regime. ... The poem "Comrade Napoleon" along with the "Seven Commandments" indicate the vital role religion and literature can play as ideological state apparatuses in disciplining the masses. ...
Consumer desires were ignored, tight labor discipline was enforced, and living standards were depressed, so that the largest possible share of Hungary's resources could be used to develop an industrial base. ... The highly centralize panning process often led to inefficiencies, while strict discipline and low living standards led to poor labor performance and popular discontent. ...
Assignment The developments initiated by Stalin between 1928 and 1940 all had the effect of increasing the role of the state in Soviet society. Discuss. Response In order to assess how Stalin attained and upheld complete power in the 1930's it is necessary to examine the factors which led his drive towards totalitarianism and also the steps that allowed him to assume this position. From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him...
Yehuda Bauer defines Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe as "any group action consciously taken in opposition to known or surmised laws, actions, or intentions directed against the Jews by the Germans and their supporters." However, many argue that passive resistance, even when done by a singl...
Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. Discuss with reference to France and Russia. The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the...
Before any state can ascend to the status of superpower a shared philosophy, or general direction, must first be established. 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. The similar...
A Plan of the Investigation How did Stalin rise to power through his struggles with Zinoviev, Kamenov, and Trotsky? After Lenin was no longer a candidate for power, Stalin was capable of stepping up and taking control. At the beginning, his only real threat came from Trotsky. Soon, however...
The conduct of international politics in the last 50 years clearly shows us that it is states that are the heart of international relations. Discuss the accuracy of this statement using neo-realistic based international relation theories and highlight the problems that such an approach faces. The neo-realist theory in International Relations is often simplistically defined as a state-centric theory, specially if considered relatively to other theories. So, the assumption that I am going to focus on - that states are the heart of International Relations - is apparently the basis of th...
Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. This was in his pamphlet "The Tax in Kind" (1921). In this pamphlet he described it as follows: " a peculiar war communism was forced on us by extreme want, ruin and war it was not, and could not be, a policy that correspon...
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...
Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. It was condemned because the leaders misused it. It was lack of support from other nations, and there was no efficient solution to save the economy from its downfall. However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europ...
Introduction Charlie Chaplin, the English comic actor, filmmaker and composer was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. In the ensuing decades he starred ...
