been like. Focus on the laws and actions put in place by Joseph Stalin‚ leader of that time. Think about you and your families’ jobs and education and the conditions from before Stalin. Now‚ taking all of these into consideration‚ do you think of Stalin as a hero or a villain? No opinion is wrong‚ for there are multiple reasons for both‚ but one must know that Stalin had at least improved Russia. Thus‚ would make him a hero. Joseph Stalin improved Russia in many ways. One way being that he made
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Eric Blair‚ who used the pen name George Orwell‚ wrote the book Animal Farm. This novel is a political book where Orwell criticizes Stalinism. Stalinism is Joseph Stalin’s concept of communism‚ which he used to rule the USSR. Joseph Stalin was a dictator for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ also known as USSR‚ from 1929 to 1953. When Stalin dictated the Soviet Union‚ he transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower. He used terror to rule over his people and caused
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Europe experienced the rise of many dictators‚ notably Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. Both rose to power within the 1920s and 1930s to discover their countries in economic despair. Ruthless dictators‚ Hitler and Stalin achieved their positions of power differently. The people of Germany appointed Hitler whereas Stalin competed with others to aquire the role of a deceased predecessor. Both Germany and Russia had never experienced a war as sophisticated and far stretched
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1944‚ when it was created by a Polish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin‚ who combined “geno”‚ meaning race or tribe‚ with “cide”‚ which means killing. The Holodomor refers to the famine of the Ukranian people from 1932 to 1933 under the rule of a Josef Stalin. Under his leadership‚ the Soviet Union persecuted the Ukrainian people by denying them their basic needs. An estimated 7‚000‚000 people died in this genocide‚ which is also known as Holodomor‚ meaning “death by hunger.” The events that led up to
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1930s Joseph Stalin became increasingly concerned that the Soviet Union would be invaded by Nazi Germany. Stalin believed the best way to of dealing with Germany was to form an anti-fascist alliance with countries in the west. Stalin argued that even Adolf Hitler would not start a war against a united Europe. Adam B. Ulam‚ the author of Stalin: The Man and his Era has argued: "Soviet diplomacy sought (in a much more realistic way than that of Britain and France) to avoid war. To do Stalin justice
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Stalin Declassified “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic” • Murders more than his own country than all killed in war Russia were in wars combined • May 1945‚ victory. USSR celebrate end of WWII. Victory at great cost. Death toll at 7mill according to Stalin. Soviet documents declassified rose and said at 9million military‚ 17 military civilians. 26 million total. • January 1924 Lenin dead. Stalin began to emerge as the chief • Goal of soviet communism-
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known as possibly the greatest leader of the French Revolution. Stalin is known as one of Russia’s greatest leaders. There are many differences and similarities in each of their reigns as leaders. Both used economic plans and total war effort as a campaign to further there revolution. Stalin and Robespierre used their revolutions‚ however‚ through terror Stalin remained true to his revolution but Robespierre betrayed his. Stalin had an ingenious plan to help his country’s economy get back on track
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Josef Stalin was apart of the allied nations during World War II‚ however‚ afterwards he started to threaten the world with nuclear warfare. Even before World War II‚ he did evil things to his people such as assassinations‚ laboring his people to death‚ and making himself dictator of Russia and renaming it the Soviet Union. Josef Stalin did many other horrid things‚ such as killing his wife and not releasing his son from prison‚ and he killed over 60‚000 million Russian people.Josef Stalin is the
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Joseph Stalin was born in 1870 in bitter poverty in Georgia‚ a region in Southern Russia. Unlike other well-educated and cultured leaders‚ he was very crude and rough. He was cold‚ hard‚ and impersonal. When he became part of Bolsheviks‚ he changed his name to Stalin‚ which means “man of steel” in Russian. There was a clear distinction between Stalin and Lenin‚ who were two of the most notable men during that time in Russia. Between 1922 and 1927‚ Stalin began his movements to seize control over
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Joseph Stalin was a man who brought fear to the eyes of society. He was a ruthless leader who was determined to succeed no matter what the cost may be. However‚ he wasn’t always a man who brought fear to another mans eye‚ but a man most people would poke fun at. Sometimes he wasn’t even acknowledged would not even be acknowledge. Despite all of the abominable things he had done while in power. Stalin was able to transform a country that was behind the world in development and technology into a industrial
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