kulaks felt completely oppressed and were unwilling to give up the small amount of land they owned. Stalin would not tolerate opposition from anyone‚ and as a result‚ millions of kulaks and peasants were sent off to labor concentration camps‚ known as "gulags‚" or were simply eliminated. It wasn’t just the lower-class peoples that he wouldn’t tolerate opposition from. Stalin was known for having other political figures that could possibly pose a threat to his regime eliminated. In 1935‚ he
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Mussolini and Stalin were two very powerful leaders of their countries. Mussolini was an Italian Leader whose goal it was to rebuild Rome to its former glory. His ruling was a form of dictator called a totalitarianism. A totalitarianism leader ruled‚ “a government in which a single party or leader controls the economic‚ social‚ and cultural lives of its people” (Pearson text). In 1922 the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to come up with a form of government. Mussolini opposed liberalism
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How did Lenin and Stalin transform the society and economy of the USSR? After the devastation of World War I‚ the Revolution‚ and Civil War‚ Russia was a total wreck. Factories were in ruins and half the working class gone‚ either dead or returned to the farms. Millions had died‚ mainly from the famine and disease accompanying war. Two million more‚ mostly nobles‚ middle class‚ and intellectuals‚ had emigrated to other countries. Lenin returned to Russia from exile in 1917 and it was up to him
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Adolf Hitler & Jozef Stalin were clearly the most notorious men of the 20th Century. Each man impacted history far beyond their mortal lives‚ and as similar as they may seem‚ there were distinct differences between them‚ their politics and their methods. Hitler rose to power legally‚ although very shortly thereafter‚ with the burning down of the German Parliament building‚ the Reichstag‚ he imposed a sort of martial law and his reign of terror could then begin in earnest. His National Socialist
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to torture and destroy their enemies and people who were part of the undesirables. The Nazis had Auschwitz where Jews‚ Polish‚ POWs‚ and other enemies of the state were put through torture and even died. The Communists of Russia had work camps like Gulag where the opposers went sent to perform hard
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less food for the people therefore led to a massive feminine. Stalin is known for his development of the Terror of the 1930’s. “Stalin purged the party of ‘enemies of the people’‚ resulting in the execution of thousands and the exile of millions to gulag system of slave labor camps” . According to the website BBC‚ Stalin is “one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history. . .His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions‚ but he also oversaw the war machine that
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What was the short-term significance of the 5 year plans? Joseph Stalin gained the effective leadership of Russia in 1929. Stalin’s time‚ as leader of Russia‚ was to gain fame for three reasons; 1.The Five Year Plans 2.Collectivisation 3.The Purges. This essay will look at the short-term significance of Stalin’s 5 year plans. Stalin introduced the Five Year Plans as he realised that if Russia was to become a key player within the global market then the country needed to industrialise rapidly and
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In the 1930’s during the Great Depression‚ many people turned to Communism to answer the problems that Capitalism seem unable to solve. Although the Great Depression affected each class negatively‚ the middle/lower class seemed to be hit the hardest because of stock market crash combined with the dust bowl movement. At the time of the Great Depression‚ creating an equal class really sounded like a good idea because of its sympathy towards the working class rather than
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became known as one of the most brutal mass murderers in history. The Soviet Union under Stalin was a terrible time‚ characterized by artificial famines and the incarceration of millions of people in forced labor camps called gulags. The actions of Stalin are estimated to have led to the deaths of more than 60 million people. As WWII hit in the late 1930s‚ the USSR became an ally of the United States‚ France‚ and the United Kingdom in the war against the Axis Powers (Germany
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