Following Lenin and Trotsky's revolution and reign in Russia, Stalin began his massive political, social, and economic changes in 1928 with the First Five Year Plan, which was designed to cause rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. ... His words show how similar to Peter the Great's desire for Russia to be westernized, Stalin wanted the same thing and he went about this by industrializing Russia. ... Using the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain as a example, Stalin caused a agricultural revolution by his process of collectivization, which created collec...

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These men claimed to want only stability; furthermore, they claimed to view revolution with horror, yet they were themselves in a sense, the most ruthless revolutionaries the world had ever seen. ... Most cities in Russia were destroyed by the Russian themselves as to avoid leaving any goods for Napoleon. Russians intended to leave nothing for the enemy, so they raid through the country destroying all the villages and all source of resources; to illustrate, Kovno, Vilna, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Viasna, Gzatsk, Borodino and Moscow were among the cities brought down to ruins. ... While fighting with ...

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Hitler was more than upset that the French, American, British, Russian, and Italian forces have beaten the might of German industrialization. ... In 1918 and 1919 numerous new parties were beginning to form as a result of the revolution of 1918 in Germany and the economic collapse of the German states. Hitler vowed to fight for everything against what the revolution of 1918 stood for, yet like Napoleon of the French Revolution, Hitler is a product of the 1918 revolution, and a very dangerous one at that. ...

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However, it was not only Germany, for the rest of Europe, recognising the growing threat of Germany and its aggressive foreign policy also began to take steps towards militarising their countries, the British budget for armaments more than doubled in the years running up to the war despite their championing of appeasement, and, one of the main incentives for Russia in the Nazi-soviet pact was that it would afford her time to reorganise her military. ... Before the outbreak of WWI the economic state of the countries involved was not major issues, Europe was booming in the post industrial revolu...

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Unemployment was extremely high, and groups were starting revolutions. ... In the Auschwitz concentration camp in the summer of 1941, 250 hospital patients and 600 Russian prisoners of war were forced into a sealed room and killed with a poison gas called Zyklon B. ...

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