Stalin: Man or Monster 1. Source A shows Stalin as a man intent on destroying the prosperity of Russia and destroying its people. In contrast‚ source B is showing the opposite. Source A shows Stalin proudly presenting ‘the USSR’s pyramids’ made of the skulls of the people. He has a big grin on his face. Meanwhile‚ source B shows Stalin talking with the workers at a new power station. He is presented as wanting to connect with this people and caring by how he is taking with what is regarded as
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needed to control any discontent was through the use of force. For Stalin‚ he implemented this through Gulags and the Secret Police. Any type of outright dissent to Stalin would result in the individual being sent to the Gulag‚ a treacherous work camp in Siberia‚ where prisoners could either work to create various projects‚ and in many cases die in the process. 2 million people were deported to the Gulags‚ and hundreds of thousands died. But this was just the beginning- Stalin instilled a greater use of
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Third Reich against primarily the Jews during WWII‚ or Stalin sending all of the intellectuals to their deaths in the notorious Soviet Gulags. In both of those examples a large majority committed the atrocities against minority people who were very different than they were; ethnically in the case of the Jews‚ and in the intellectual aristocracy in the case of the Gulags. As difficult as it is for us in the west to even ponder how one group of people could condemn another group of their own countrymen
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torture and oppression conducted by the Cheka under orders of the Bolsheviks. This force meant that Lenin could assert his physical authority over the people and counter any opposition. To supplement the secret police‚ Lenin also established a system of Gulags and Labour
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Right now in Syria‚ the Syrian government has been engaged in a brutal and violent crackdown against its own people who were demonstrating against the killings of thousands of civilians and unjust imprisonment. The civil strife had ballooned into indiscriminate assaults on civilian areas which in turn have led to horrible situation. While the first generation of Human Rights states that “The right to own property and the right not to be deprived of it arbitrarily”‚ thousands of Syrian people have
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Terror in Russia in 1936. The Great Terror was known as ’Yezhovshchina’ in Russia‚ the time of Yezhov‚ who was head of the NKVD in 1936. The Terror fell into four main parts: The Moscow Show Trials‚ 1936-1938 The Army Purge 1937 The Mass Purge The Gulag The first part of the Great Terror‚ the Moscow Show Trials‚ involved three main trials; The Zinoviev trial in 1936‚ The Trotskyite trial in 1937 and The Bukharin trial in 1938. All who were included in these trials had to confess to a number of things
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just arrested people. Stalin killed millions‚ sending many more (about 14 million) to his ‘Gulags’‚ or concentration camps. In a time of Soviet socialism‚ Stalin created a secret police force called the OGPU to surveil the population and make sure no one went against his ideas. Stalin’s Gulags were used to control those Stalin saw as a threat to his regime‚ Shearer explains the masses of people sent to Gulags saying “Hundreds of thousands were deported or interned in camps and penal settlements. In
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The year is 1917 and the Russian Revolution had just taken place the Czars were overthrown and the Communist party takes over. At this time‚ it puts into power Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin is the leader of the Communist party creating the USSR. When Lenin dies in 1924 Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky are fighting for power Stalin spreads lies about Trotsky causing him to flee to Moscow‚ thus giving Stalin control of the USSR in the year 1929. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell shows in an allegory
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Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1928 and became Lenin’s successor. Stalin was a dictator but with his leadership he developed Russia from a backward country to a world superpower. Stalin had many triumphs during his leadership and brought both good and bad long lasting effects to Russia. Joseph Stalin’s aims were to make Russia an industrial and military superpower‚ and this was a time of clarity and strength for his followers. Therefore‚ he was also responsible for 20 million
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by Joseph Stalin‚ which lasted from the 1920’s to the 1953.(DeSomma‚ 12) During the time of Stalin’s ruling the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)‚ a secret police force‚ murdered many soviet citizens and jailed many others to Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps that people were sent to if they were seen dangerous to the union. The Soviet then destroyed all owned farms to be replaced by state owned farms‚ this caused the Holomodor (1932- 1933). The Holomodor was a man made famine
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