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This essay sets out to assess the relative achievements of the totalitarian regimes of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia. In assessing the achievements of the regimes we must be careful not to judge them with the values of a western democracy at the end of the twentieth century. How they achieved power, consolidated that power, what changes they brought to their nations and what they in their time achieved for their nation, whether or not it was a lasting benefit, were achievements for the regimes even if we find them contrary to what we believe to be right and just by today's standards. Also in making an assessment of the achievements it would be wrong not to recognise the suffering that the people in each country had to endure for them to be achieved. Both regimes owe their rise to power in part to the outcomes of WW 1 which led to the revolution in each country.. The Bolsheviks came to power because of the discontent with the Tsars and the losses in the war against Germany. The Nazis because of the dissatisfaction in Germany with blame and the cost of reparations imposed upon it for the war. There were major differences between what the two regimes wanted to achieve. Russia in 1917 was basi
Hitler's regime was able to restore employment and by 1939 Germany was actually short of labour. Less emphasis was placed on the production of shoes, clothing and household goods. The three Five Year Plans which changed Russia from a basically an agrarian economy to one of the foremost industrial powers and brought about the collectivisation and increased productivity in agriculture. Construction projects included the Dneprostroi hydroelectric project and the Moscow Metro. The government also introduced measures to make collective farming more attractive that large numbersof peasants voluntarily collectivised. During the period, besides improving old factories 1500 new factories were built. Emphasis was put on building factories, the output of machinery and the development of transportation, the development of heavy industry. The spread of Communism into Eastern and most of Central Europe. Russian agriculture took years to recover, the number of stock was more than halved between 1928 and 1932. However, these tactics achieved results and by 1932 some 60% of peasant households had been collectivised and by 1939 the agricultural revolution was practically completed. The defeat of Germany in WW1 bitterly hurt the pride the German People and there was deep resentment against the Treaty of Versailles which blamed Germany for the war and imposed crippling reparations upon her. There were some 26 million peasant holdings to small for the use of modern agricultural machinery and the peasants wished to retain their private property they had seized at the time of the revolution. There were also a number of notable achievements of Hitler's Nazi Germany. Much attention was also given to improving transportation. Its progress in the provision of education and health care for the Russian population.
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