Stalin utilized education and propaganda to ensure that the minds of both the young and the old supported and agreed with everything Stalin did and how crucial he was to giving everyone a better life in Russia. By controlling what information people were receiving and what that information was saying‚ this was how Stalin was able to keep control for so long; the people who were receiving this ‘filtered’ information didn’t know any better. The people of Russia weren’t aware of the serious problems
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Why did Russia invade Georgia? In August 2008‚ Russia and Georgia went to a brief war over the control of South Ossetia. It was Russia’s first war against another state since the collapse of the Soviet regime. Russia and Georgia have a history of conflict. During the breakup of the Soviet Union‚ the question of control over the region of South Ossetia was never resolved to all
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government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers in Brest-Litovsk in Brest Litovsk. This treaty officially brought Russia’s participation in the World war to an end. Russia had no other option other than to sign the treaty due to their weakened state. The Treaty was terminated on November 11 1919 when Germany surrendered to the allies ending the World War. The treaty only lasted for 8 and a half months when the Germans broke diplomatic relations with
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In 1932 things looked very good for Stalin; the First Five Year Plan was complete‚ the peasants had been collectivised and Stalin was the ’boss’ and firmly in control. However‚ there was still a little opposition in the Communist Party and a Party member called Ryutin circulated criticism of Stalin and how he ran the Party among the Central Committee arguing for his removal as General Secretary. Of course‚ Stalin was furious that someone of so little importance had the audacity to say circulate such
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blood loss‚ but if the wounds are not treated and dressed properly then infection will set in and kill them. In World War I Russia did not die from her wounds but died of infection. Yes Russia faced many problems during the First World War but so did everyone else and yet some of them‚ like the French‚ not only survived the war but ended up winning it. Even saying that Russia lost the war is not the best statement that can be made. A more accurate representation of what happened is that Russians lost
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“Stalin won because Trotsky lacked a power base”: How far does this statement explain why Stalin‚ rather than Trotsky‚ succeeded Lenin as leader of the Soviet State? A power base is the source of a person’s organisation power or influence. The statement “Stalin won because Trotsky lacked a power base” does not explain the actual reasons as to why Trotsky did not succeed Lenin as the leader of the Soviet state. Trotsky had the most powerful power base in Russia at the time which was that he had control
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Why did the Soviet Union intervene in Hungary and not Poland in 1956? ‘Given the growing sense of national euphoria sweeping eastern Europe in 1955-1956‚ a full-scale decolonisation of the Soviet Empire was not considered beyond the bounds of geopolitical possibility’. The decision of the Soviet Union to invade Hungary in 1956‚ whilst acknowledging the need to control events in Poland‚ came about through a myriad of complex reasons as well as the collapse of the old Hegemony‚ following Krushchev’s
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and legal environment of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s? - The Soviet Union’s push to industrialize no matter the cost ultimately led to frequent shortages of food and other consumer good. Bread lines were a common site throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As can be seen‚ the divide between wealth of the Politburo and poverty of Soviet citizens created backlash and younger people refused to adopt the Communist Party ideology as the generations before them previously did. In addition‚ due to isolation
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Communism in the Soviet Union and Why it Failed Communism is defined as "a system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of the common wealth‚ more or less according to their need." In 1917 the rise of power in the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia along with the consolidation of power by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin‚ the word communism came to mean a totalitarian system controlled by a single political
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Explain why Trotsky did not become the leader of the USSR After Lenin’s death in 1924 the Bolsheviks (although not out rightly stated) were in need of a new leader. The power struggle occurred from 1923-1929 and eventually Stalin effectively became the leader of the USSR due to many reasons‚ including the weaknesses of Trotsky. Trotsky had not been a Bolshevik initially – he converted from the Menshevik party in 1917. Therefore some of the party members doubted him as 100% trustworthy. Within
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