to be against his own father. His fear of the enemies led to the decision of denouncing his family member. In the novel Between Shades of Gray the author tells the story of Lina Vilkas‚ her mother‚ and her brother in a gulag in Serbia. The NKVD are the prison guards at the gulags. When Lina’s mother has been shot by one of the guards‚ Lina tells the guard “I hate you” and Kretzsky‚ the NKVD guard‚ responds‚ “Me‚ too” (Document E 14). Kretzsky‚ the NKVD guard‚ responds to Lina’s hateful comment with
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What methods did Stalin use to control the Soviet Union? There are several methods Stalin had introduced to obtain control over the Soviet Union by directing individual policies and techniques into a particular group. Early on the time Stalin had seized power over Russia‚ he had immediately brought out his version of the cult of personality. It was also referred as the ’cult of Stalin’. As a technique it was brought out to push the glorification of Stalin into every corner of the work place
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Ilyich found the finite pleasures of his life slowly being taken away from him as he got sicker and sicker. Fetyukov of “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” incrementally sacrificed his dignity in order to survive the harsh environment in the gulag. Finally‚ Guido Orefice from “Life is Beautiful” demonstrated how to selflessly attempt to defy death‚ not for his own sake‚ but for the sake of his family. “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny! Wouldn’t that make a picture‚ now?" (Pg 279). This
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of the twentieth century." "Any adult inhabitant of this country‚ from a collective farmer up to a member of the Politburo‚ always knew that it would take only one careless word or gesture and he would fly off irrevocably into the abyss." (The Gulag Archipelago‚ vol. 2‚ p "Fear by night‚ and a feverish effort by day to pretend enthusiasm for a system of lies‚ was the permanent condition." (Conquest‚ The Great Terror: A Reassessment‚ "According to some reports‚ entire groups of men were
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Sidimohammed Mbarki Professor Whittaker History 3352 Fall 05 Wanderings Through an Inferno: An Analysis of the Great Terror as Seen Through the Eyes of Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg The following paper will be an analysis of "The Great Terror‚" that is‚ the arrest and often execution of millions of Russian and Russian minorities from 1936 to 1938‚ carried out by the Soviet secret police‚ known as‚ and hereafter referred to as the NKVD. The analysis will use Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg’s‚
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Great Purge. Joseph Stalin killed anyone who was against the communist party‚ which then later led to Stalin killing the older Bolsheviks (Cunningham‚ 121-22). After Stalin started doing this‚ he came up with another plan. “He later sent people to Gulags (Soviet Prison camps in the northern reaches of
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brainwashed into mindless decadence. A comparison of the worlds created by Solzhenitsy and Huxley prompts us to redefine imprisonment of freedom‚ yet the brain that is enslaved in Huxley’s novel is truly less free than the body enchained in Solzhenitsyn gulag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn carefully and tediously depicted what life is like in a prison. Ivans monotonous life prompts the reader initially to think that Ivans day is a living death of tedious details. Yet‚ in truth‚ Ivan is able to have free-flowing
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In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich‚ the prisoners have been physically imprisoned in a Russian labor camp. The main character‚ Ivan Denisovich‚ has been sent to serve for eight years . In the camps‚ prisoners have no rights; it is cold; there is much intense labor; they are not fed sufficiently; and their lives revolve around survival. The prisoners work hard without any freedoms and gain nothing but personal satisfaction from the hard hours of labor. Everyday‚ the prisoners must fight
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How to prepare for the DBQ: | | | | |Preparation Work: | | | |6 Cs- Teaching students how to analyze sources.
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Ivan Denisovich written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Nora‚ the character from the play A Doll’s House written by Ibsen‚ are two characters whose lives are imprisoned‚ either physically or mentally. The character Ivan is physically imprisoned in a gulag camp in Russia where he has to find escape routes from his imprisoned life to find pleasure in his everyday life. The character of Nora is figuratively imprisoned in her marriage and she has to find aspects of her life that let her escape and find
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