First, in Stalin's Russia, his Five Year Plans controlled the national economy. ... Second, the political actions of Stalin and Hitler both drastically changed and revolutionized their countries, but Hitler's work proved to be better for his country than Stalin's work. In Stalin's Russia, his regime of totalitarianism controlled every aspect of Russian society. ... Lastly, both Hitler and Stalin created their ideal societies in their respective countries. In Russia, Stalin's Five Year Plans created temporary discomfort among the Russian people. ...

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Stalin The Soviet Union was 50-100 years industrially behind major European nation-states and even Western nation-states before Stalin's emergence as the leader of the Soviet Union. ... The Rule of Law was also manipulated to serve Stalin. ... Stalin used the agricultural turmoil as a weapon to eliminate the Ukrainians. Stalin increased their production quota quickly that they were not able to meet them. ... Stalin was able to achieve his goals. ...

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Trotsky and Stalin were the two candidates for the take over Russia's government. They both used socialism to try to move into power, but Stalin used socialism on the home front to his advantage. ... This idea did not go over well and Stalin won increasing support. ... After Trotsky was out of the way, Stalin killed his supporters and furthered his totalitarian role. ...

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Furthermore, Stalin's rule of his Communist Party also exemplified totalitarian values. ... In 1926, Stalin then stopped this alliance, and he allied with the Right Bolsheviks. Stalin then took political actions that took Trotsky out of the picture, and thus enabled Stalin to have control of the Communist Party. ... Also, Stalin eliminated a group of thriving peasant farmers, who were called the kulaks. Stalin's collectivization of farms showed his agricultural control. ...

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Because Stalin had with the USC controlled the arts, in particularly music, it has often been argued that many composers rebelled against this by seemingly complying by the rules and even in some cases, actually praising Stalin. ... His works all seemed to follow Stalin's guidelines set regarding the composition of new music, but it has been highly debated that he is rejecting everything that Stalin had enforced on composers and even in places mocking Stalin. ... Even fellow composers living under the same threat from Stalin failed to see the hidden meanings in his work. ... On the othe...

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Hitler's regime was never the efficient system that developed under Stalin in the Soviet Union, and unlike Stalin, Hitler shared power with conservative groups such as the industrialists and the army. ... In June 1941 he launched the invasion of Stalin's Russia with almost four million troops. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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Throughout history, we have been aware of the presence of totalitarian states such as: Nazi Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fascist Italy under Mussolini, and the People's Republic of China under Zedong. ... Zedong and Stalin led the communists in China and Russia. ...

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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, also known as Stalin-Hitler Pact was a non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the presence of Stalin. ... On the other hand, the Soviet Union wanted to gain time, to temporarily prevent a German invasion, as the Red Army had too few senior officers, many of them being executed at the orders of Stalin. ...

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Death seemed to guard all the exits. This statement made by a survivor of the Holocaust summed up the fate of many Jews that fell victim under Adolf Hitler during his rule in Germany. The Holocaust was one of the most devastating blows to a single group of people in the history of the world. One m...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ...

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Both Hitler and Stalin engaged in the Holocaust and mass-murder "purges" respectively, and both had ambitions for total control over their own citizens: privacy was a crime against the state (Segre, 2002). ...

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Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could've happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would've led him do such h...

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Just before the invasion of Poland Hitler secretly met with Joseph Stalin to secure what is now known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact. "Signed 23 August 1939, Hitler and Stalin agreed to Poland's partition and dissolution....

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At first, confronted with domestic crisis, FDR concentrated on reforms at home. We talked about these in the preceding conference. Nevertheless, FDR, in his first inaugural address did lay out some general principles by which he would engage in foreign policy. With reference to the Western Hemisphere, he identified the so-called "Good Neighbor Policy." By this she meant to refrain from overt intervention into the affairs of Central and South American countries. ...

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"History is what it is, but it is also what we make of it. What we call history" is not a thing, an object of study, but a story we choose to tell about things. Thus all history writing requires a fictive or imaginary representation of the past"." Richard Slotkin Gunter Grass, in his novel "Crabwal...

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The Nazi party were very persuasive; they would use whatever means they could to get what they wanted. These posters are propaganda for Hitler they both have the aim of enticing the German public to vote for them but they are both different types of propaganda. Source A is Black propaganda, saying that the Jews and the Social Democrats would both bring communism, this is what the Germans feared the most. The short, fat looking man, a stereotypical Jew, is holding a huge bag of money, is well dressed, and is obviously well fed because of his size this is to give the impression that Jews a...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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