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. ...
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...
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) ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
"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. ...
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. ...
Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... This was written before Karl Marx's Das Capital or the 'Communist Manifesto' and long before the Bolshevik Revolution, which leads us to think that the conflict between these countries i...
