On the other hand Russia got support from the US when Russia was attacked by Great Britain and France in 1855. ... After the Russian revolution in 1917 a lot of people came to the US. ... In Fact, the "Russian Mafia" consists of people attending many ethnic groups, but hardly any Russians. ... The CRA (Congress of Russian Americans) is an organization that tries to improve the life of Russians in the US. ... Life is not easy for Russian-Americans. ...

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As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he learnt it by the time he was nine. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ... Stalin changed the whole world's perception of USSR and for the first time in history Russia was getting influence in Europe and was incorporated with a lot of European events. ...

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The Cuban Revolution was an extremely influential event in Latin America, if not the world itself. ... Rampant poverty was a problem that Castro's revolution intended to solve. ... (Guillermoprieto, 83), while they did not meet the same success as Castro's revolutions, many young people staged Communist revolutions in their own countries. ... Cuba proved to be of vital strategic importance, as its conversion to Communism caused the US's influence over the island to transferred to Russia. ... While sugar has remained a decent industry; however, as there is almost no country witho...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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It was the movement that meant to overthrow the capitalist order by revolution (The Columbia Encyclopedia). ... Violence revolutions, form by the Anti-Communists, often occurred. ... We could see this in his approached in the Polish Revolution Crisis. ... This time, the revolution was not simply form by the workers; the Polish Communist party was also involved because they refused to accept the Russian general Rokossovsky as the Polish Minister for Defense. ... Another revolution took it place. ...

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The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. ... No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. ... The U.S., like Russia, was very wary of what was going on in Vietnam. ... In 1961, Russia began aiding North Vietnam with supplies and finances. ... North Vietnam was aided by Russia and China, but not with soldiers but with finances, supplies and weaponry. ...

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In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which led to the removal of the last Tsar, Nicholas the second. ... The Western leaders despised the idea of communism to the point where they sent troops to help stop the Bolshevik revolution from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. ... Russia's allies, the French and British, felt betrayal from Russia as they backed out from the war. ... As the Germa...

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The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. ... Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919 From this, it is relatively simple to track the progress of official rhetoric. ... The eventual revolution can, in the most extreme terms be seen as the final loss of patience with the Communist ideology which had been proven, by the failings of Sovie...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... By giving them new, structur...

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This revolution spread quickly through Hungary. ... (Hungary 1956) On October 23, hundreds of workers and students marched through the streets of Budapest while shouting "Out with the Russians," and "Down with Gero." ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. Anyone who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. ... (Hungary 1956 and the Political Revolution) ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. ... Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ...

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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. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World...

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With these policies, Gorbachev planned to modernize Russia. ... In his speech in Rome, he stressed: "We need spiritual values; we need a revolution of the mind. ... The revolution reached the Soviet Union as well. ... CNN Interactive (Russian Archive). ... Available: http://www.cnn.com Everything about Russia. ...

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Sunny claims that, "Especially under Lenin, the development of nationalism was encouraged in the Soviet Union which lead to inner conflict and desire for the new nations to break free from the Diets, from Russians' rule" (www.worldhistoryhub.com book review, Sunny, the Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union). ... The areas of ethic conflict were: "Russia (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Ukraine(Crimea), Moldova(Transdnistria), Latvia and Estonia (Russian minorities), Georgia(Abkhazia, South Ossetia), Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), Central A...

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From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolution. ... As a result 2.1 million Kulaks were exiled from Russia, 2.5 million were resettled and another 1.5 million fled to other regions. ... Russian production increased by 250% between 1929 and 1933. ...

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He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... He would hold protests, and continue to network with other members of the revolution. ... During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ... Besides an Industrial Revolution Stalin set out to fix the lagging agricultural production in his five year plans. ...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... Both men desperately wanted Russia to catch up to the western European states. Both succeeded to an extent, turning Russia temporarily into Europe's leading power. ...

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Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was...

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Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Also the Russian government was seeking revenge on the United States because the United States did not enter the war effort soon enough and that caused for more Russian casualties. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. ... The United States didn't want to risk the lives of their young men, just as the Russians didn't. The Russians directly blamed the United States for their 30 million casualties in WWII. ...

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Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... Joseph spoke only Georgian until he was 8, when he learned to speak Russian. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... The grim time that Stalin's advisors...

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Gomulka, the revolution in Hungary had shown that the result of "de-Stalinization" launched by Khrushchev, was a severe crisis in the socialist camp. ... He said: "People will say that as long as Stalin was, everybody obeyed, there were no shocks, and now, after "they" came to power, Russia was defeated and lost Hungary." For many people, it was clear that the death of the Hungarians and the Soviet people during the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 was the direct consequence of the Khrushchev's report and his ill-considered actions. ... In all, we can say that Khrushche...

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"The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." ... The Berlin Airlift saw U.S. and Royal Airlift planes bring supplies to Berliners, breaking the Russian blockade. This was an attempt to make Russia less powerful by making Germany stronger. ... This was the first military treaty between the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. ...

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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Germany had invaded Russia twice this century and should not be allowed to recover. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolsh...

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Through an armed revolt known as the Cuban Revolution, Castro wanted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba through a dictatorship. ... Nikita Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia. ... He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ...

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After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel Czars) the control of power in Russia was taken from the slim minority by the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. ...

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