reign of Stalin he was able to establish himself as a successful dictator through totalitarian rule. He became the undisputed leader of the USSR and the factors that enabled him to do so were Industrialisation‚ his social policies and his ability to defeat Hitler in World War Two. However‚ through Stalin’s political career he also encountered many failures. These were Collectivism‚ the purges and the terror he caused by the people living in Russia during his reign. Stalin’s reign was successful
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Stalin: Modernising the USSR Joseph Stalin is now remembered as one of the most ruthless and powerful dictators of all time. His regime was one of terror and oppression‚ and resulted in the deaths of millions of Soviets. As a young man‚ Stalin was involved in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1904‚ he met Lenin at the first national Bolshevik conference in Finland before becoming the delegate to the Social Democratic Party. His job was to gather support for the Bolshevik
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this lag in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us!" Josef Stalin 1931‚ this quote sums up Stalin’s desire to modernize the Soviet Union. Stalin attempt to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of five year plans had various outcomes on the people‚ economy and politics in the country. The results of Stalin’s policies where mixed economically they where great‚ but politically and socially they had major flaws. Stalin increased the amount of heavy industry and the production of raw materials
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GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses
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“To what extent was the rise to power of Stalin due to personal appeal and ability”? Lenin died in January 1924 and Stalin emerged to power in 1929. Stalin has been described as a “grey blur” that rose to power. It’s quite hard to pin point the main reasons how Stalin got to power. Some historians may say that Stalin was lucky that he got to power and he benefited off events such as Lenin’s death and that his rival’s weaknesses such as Trotsky who was considered likely successor to Lenin‚ but Trotsky
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Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship was characterized by Russia’s ideological transformation of Communism under his reign. Widely regarded as a tyrant‚ Stalin was responsible for massive repression of his people. However Russians remember Stalin for his leadership‚ advances in technologies‚ and victory in World War II. His usage of powerful leadership attributes created fear and promoted a tense paranoid feeling during his dictatorship. Under his leadership‚ Russia experienced a return to pre-revolutionary
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To what extent was the League a success? The League of Nations was a group setup to maintain peace throughout the world‚ without using violence etc. and was created during the Paris peace conference although the president of the United States of America Woodrow Wilson originally thought it up. The Leagues main objectives were to unite all nations in a parliament style meeting to discuss the independence of countries and to protect their borders‚ to protect the citizen’s lives and working conditions
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To what extent was the League of Nations a success? In 1914 war broke out in Europe. The war ended in 1918 and Germany solely blamed. The end of the war was signed with the treaty of Versailles. From the war was born the League of Nations; who helped nations resolve disputes peacefully without going to war. When the League was formed‚ the defeated nations were not invited to join. The League originally had forty-two members. All forty-two members made up the assembly‚ who met once a year. As incidents
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To What Extent was Gorbachev to blame for the Collapse of the USSR Gorbachev was to blame for the collapse of the USSR for various reasons‚ mainly because of his two new policies‚ ‘Glasnost’ (New Freedom and Openness) and ‘Perestroika’ (Economic Restructuring). However‚ there were a few external factors which helped cause the collapse of the USSR‚ such as the effect Yeltsin had on Russia and how countries were growing tired of the whole communist system itself. Gorbachev’s intention was to make
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To what extent was it Stalin’s Leadership that explains why the USSR won in 1945? By 1941‚ Nazi Germany had swept much of Western Europe under its yoke. The Low Countries and France‚ Scandinavia‚ Poland and Czechoslovakia had all been conquered in rapid succession‚ and only Britain stood alone against the Nazi invaders‚ the Channel providing the final hurdle which Hitler could not surmount. Bereft then of enemies‚ Hitler turned East‚ against the Russian bear and the Slavs who for so long he had
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