Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... In fact, no Russian citizen could leave the country without special government permission. It was a true totalitarian regime because of the lack of labor union and lack of free speech or press. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. ... The government created the National Labor Front, which banned strikes and placed smaller Fuhrers in charge of factori...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... The event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due to the numerous revolutionary groups; such force only ba...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The inefficiency of only taxing the lower estates showed in the government's budget. ... By the 1795, the government had passed into the hands of the five-main directory. ... One such coup succeeded and Napoleon Bonaparte formed a Consulate government with significant ease. ... Local governments became highly centralised. ... Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Allied powers soon recognized the provisional government; it was considered the 'legal successor' to the Czarist government. ... Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. ... A huge armed demonstration was held against the Provisional Government in Petrograd, on July 17, 1917. ... However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. ... Thus a war was declared between totalitarian dictatorship and democratic socialism, between Marxism and ...

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Through coercive tactics this new government seized power in 1917 and Lenin came to power. ... After Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin came to power and effectively he ruled as a totalitarian dictator. ... These purges would later spread all throughout the government and into the public. ... This was the organizational restructuring of the Soviet economy and government apparatus. ... He directed much of his energy toward Chechnya, whose government had been trying to secede from Russia since 1991. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"1 Many would argue that the 1917 October revolution would have not succeeded had it not been for the weakness of the provisional government, or the Petrograd soviets assistance. ... Steve Phillips on the other hand suggests that "By October 1917 the Bolsheviks were in a position to succeed in seizing power from the provisional government although by this time the Provisional Government wielded little power of its own"3 Phillips looks towards a compromise that many historians support, however Philip's fails to acknowledge the fact that the provisional government lost much of its supp...

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Weather On October 2nd 1941 German troops marched on Moscow, with only 90,000 Russian soldiers defending the capital, the government was preparing to evacuate. ... In this chaotic time Stalin's totalitarian "rule by decree" was impractical and he allowed greater freedom and autonomy in the lower echelons. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate