of the Soviet Union? by Brooke Justus Plan of Investigation In 1928‚ Joseph Stalin developed his first plan that concentrated on the development of the Soviet Union in the global economic spectrum. Stalin proposed that electricity‚ coal‚ and iron production need be increased significantly in the following five years in order to compete with capitalist countries. This investigation will analyze the significance of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan in boosting the economy of the Soviet Union. The effects
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Fidel Castro to side with the Soviet Union Super Power? In the 1960’s the world was largely dominated by the Cold War which was a long period of tension and hostility that only occasionally broke out into open warfare. This conflict was caused by the rivalry of two superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union and emerged after the Second World War. Both super powers had different ideologies - the United States was a capitalist democracy‚ whereas the Soviet Union were communist. These two super
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Why The Soviets Invaded Afghanistan There were several reasons for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan‚ which were given by both by the communist party to its Soviet citizens‚ and ones not disclosed to the public. Soviets were told that the invasion was about the liberation of the Afghan communists‚ and it was imperative to generate more communist states. The Russian government also began to portray the war as a war against Islamic fundamentalism. They had a real fear of having an extremist
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reactions in both Battleship Potemkin and Strike? Sergei Eisenstein was a Russian propagandist during the Bolshevik Revolution in the 1920’s and recognised and then created film to be used as a propaganda tool to represent communist social messages. Soviet montage film was an advanced style of cinema that used advanced‚ unique editing and clever use of camera angles and distances that encouraged an active and intellectual audience response. Battleship Potemkin is a reproduction of the revolution in
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60s‚ when the two largest Communist States in the world ended their alliance‚ the world was shocked. Not only did the split between the Soviet Union and China create a divide in worldwide Communist leadership but also marked a turning point in the Cold War era. In his book‚ The Sino-Soviet Split‚ historian Lorenz M. Lüthi describes the collapse of the Sino-Soviet alliance to have been as significant to the time period as “the construction of the Berlin Wall‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ the Second Vietnam
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the Soviet Union (USSR) during the Second World War. At the beginning of the Second World War the Soviet Union was in a trade agreement and was sided with the German army and assisted in fighting the Allied forces‚ but on June 22‚ 1941‚ the German army put into Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union. This led to the Soviets joining the Allied forces in the fight against the Axis powers and completely changed the layout and theater of the war‚ which came at great cost to the Soviet civilians
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Changes in Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union Since the fall of the Soviet Union 1991 many changes have been brought to Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union newly formed countries of Eastern Europe found themselves brought into a new era‚ many of the people had relied on the Soviet Union’s system of socialism to help them with every detail of their lives and to dictate their lives but with this newfound freedom citizens had many changes forced upon them. All they once knew had been
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countries under some forced union of a unifying power to become content or to have a higher standard of living when their country acquires its independence. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was one of these unifying powers‚ which influenced several regions to unite as Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs)‚ in 1922‚ under the same government. Uzbekistan was a land divided by khanates when it became an SSR. Joining the USSR actually helped Uzbekistan; the Soviets built roads‚ schools‚ and modern
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country to industrialise defeat in the Second World War would be certain. The purges also offered small opening for peasants and workers to become involved in the running of the USSR. Industrialization had a devastating impact on the people of the Soviet Union‚ although the country benefited from the modernization. In 1927 the Gosplan (the state planning commission) developed a series of plans to drastically transform the economy. These plans aimed to ensure that the workers reached certain goals. Industry
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The Soviet Union played a major role in the allied victory in World War II. They stopped the Nazi advances and eventually pushed them back on the eastern front. The Russian people showed great resolve to triumph in spite of drastic errors in judgment by the Soviet leaders. Some of the poor decisions were made by Joseph Stalin. The first major mistake was that he believed that he could stall the Soviet Union’s involvement in the war until 1942. Stalin also made an error in trying to take advantage
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