IV. Differences Although both Stalinist USSR and Hitler’s Nazi Germany shared some similarities in terms of the means of their rule‚ these two totalitarian regimes differed from each other in economic and social aspects. (1) Economic Institution The USSR - Collectivization The Five Year Plan started under Lenin and continued by Stalin which enabled the USSR to develop economically but at a great cost to the Soviet people. Indeed‚ Stalin strengthened the state’s existing dominance: legal private
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Although Hitler and Stalin both employed a special police force to help control the country under their totalitarian rule‚ Hitler’s force relied on having secret police everywhere while Stalin relied on having individuals report their friends and coworkers. To control citizens by spying on them and imprisoning them‚ Hitler employed the use of the Himmler’s SS and the Gestapo political police. The SS initially started off as Hitler’s personal bodyguards‚ but under Himmler’s command‚ they evolved into
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welcomed his authority. They hoped that he would stop the strikes and riots that had put Italy in a bad place. They were ready to submit to dictatorship‚ provided the national economy was stabilized and their country restored to its dignity and Mussolini seemed to be the only one that could do that. The Fascists introduced ambitious programs of public works that caused Italy’s democratic system to be abolished in favor of Mussolini’s one-party state‚ opposition parties‚ trade unions‚ and the free
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Furthermore‚ the possibility of revolting against Nazi or Stalinist rule was nearly impossible for prisoners. For victims of Stalinism‚ exercising resistance endangered their lives‚ and for those under Hitler’s regime‚ exerting their will against the Nazi was rarely even considered. As part of Solzhenitsyn depiction of life as a prisoner‚ he explains the potential dangers of engaging in acts of resistance against the Stalinist government by stating “it was safer to keep dynamite during the rule of
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leader to improve aspects of Italian society‚ Benito Mussolini came into power as the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922‚ following the March on Rome. He was a steadfast dictator that was able to continuously increase his level of power and influence by implementing many furtive tactics to ensure that his position remained in place and unchallenged in Italy. However Italy’s involvement in World War Two became a key factor in the downfall of Mussolini‚ and in 1943 he was replaced as Prime Minister.
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have been many dictators in the world. Today I will compare and contrast two of them‚ Fransisco Franco and Benito Mussolini. So let’s jump right is with Franco. Franco was a Spanish general who‚ after the Spanish government began to fail in 1936‚ took up arms and rebelled against the government. It took him three years‚ and the help of other famous Fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini‚ but in 1939‚ he became the dictator of Spain‚ or El Caudillo (the leader) as most people referred to him as. Mussolini’s
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Benito Mussolini Born in Predappio Forli Italy on July 29th 1883. Died April 28th 1945 in Giulino di Mezzegra Italy at the Age of 61. Slide 2 Benito Mussolini got his name from the Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juarez Benito’s mother Rosa was a elementary school teacher. Early in Benito’s life‚ he looked up to his father Alessandro who was a blacksmith‚ and was actively involved in the local politics. Benito helped his father work as a blacksmith‚ and in doing so‚ he gained many of his father’s
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Once they removed political opposition thanks to his secret police and the outlawing of labor strikes‚ Mussolini and his followers solidified their power through laws that was able to transform the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within the time of five years‚ Mussolini had established his dictatorship by both legal and by extraordinary means. The United States have rules and regulations in place that wouldn’t allow this but they can be overturned by the will of the people vested in the hands
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Ben Hubbard Thur: 6:30PM Benito Mussolini‚ the founder of Fascism in 1919‚ was the prominent leader of Italy from 19221943. His rule came from the fact that he‚ and the Black Shirts‚ a group of organized jobless war veterans‚ went to Rome when Italy was beginning to fail politically. He talked and created an image that he was the only man fit of restoring Italy. He was finally able to form a government with King Victor Emmanuel’s permission‚ however‚ he slowly began to dismantle the Italian democratic government and
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Benito Mussolini The new state of Italy was far from being a great success in the years before 1914. The First World War left the Italian economy crippled and her treatment by the Treaty of Versailles did not help at all. Between 1919 and 1922 there were five different governments in Italy‚ all of which were useless in taking action to what was needed. Benito Mussolini was born in 1883. Before the start of WW1‚ he had been a socialist journalist. He left the socialist party and started
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