To just concentrate on Stalin's totalitarian terror does ignore his significant achievements, however the "end doesn't justify the means". Stalin was a proud man and was proud of Russia, he realised that Russia was a backward country and without pushing USSR to modernise it would...

Cuba is a communist dictatorship, with Fidel Castro as the head of state. It does not have an independent judiciary nor does it have free elections. So the people of Cuba would be considered subjects to the country. Fidel Castro led a rebel army to overthrow the Cuban government and achieved victory...

Josef Stalin is perhaps the most praised, reviled and recognised dictator in the modern world. His influence as such has reached across the globe, affecting leaders and citizens alike. Many of his techniques have been adopted by prominent leaders, today and in the past. One such example is fellow s...

The breakup of the Former Soviet Union has forced those now independent states into a state of confusion. Republics that were once one nation now are separate governments. They now must compete for trade alliances, industrial resources, financial resources, and most importantly, agricultural resou...

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary leader and later dictator of the USSR. He was born in Gori, Georgia. He studied at Tiflis Orthodox where he was expelled from in 1899. After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary undergroun...

Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. He was a totalitarian leader, which is a government, which takes total control over every side of a public and private life. He became ruler of a country 1/6 of the worlds population. He is known as one of the world's most rev...

Through out history the world has seen strong and powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas that have come to have a major affect on a country. Leaders are usually driven by what they see as a desire to create a better and more perfect country. It seems that these leaders appear to have the p...

Although the Cuban economy may be thought of as a complete failure, the command system structure can still be an effective way of creating a successful economy. From the 1960s revolution to the 1990\'s collapse of Russia, the Soviet Union managed to maintain the Cuban economy by trading them sugar ...

Revolutions in the past have occurred because of powerful dynamic leaders. The Russian Revolution implied complete and drastic change, but the revolutionaries were the people who tried to bring about such changes. Lenin and Stalin were influential revolutionary leaders that set up a new way of livin...

Throughout Russian history there have been many leaders who have tried to implement reforms to help shape the future of their nation. In doing so, some of these leaders have left a legacy for history books and scholars to contemplate. Alexander II, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev each sou...

Why was the German invasion of Russia to be expected? On June 22, 1941, the armies of Nazi-Germany stood on a two thousand kilometer long Front, preparing to attack Soviet-Russia. The inevitable assault on Russia was to finally satisfy an obsession of Adolph Hitler, the Nazi Führer. As for J...

In the summer of 1960, the United States set in motion a process that has gradually grown stronger ever since. This process was the Cuban Trade Embargo. The process began when the Cuban government ordered two U.S. oil companies, Standard and Texaco, to refine Soviet crude oil at their Cuban refiner...

The Communist World and the Free World were two kinds of economic and political camps existing in 1985. At the center of these camps were two nations, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who followed the principals of communism, and the United States of America with the belief in Capitalism and...

Social Revolutionaries believed the force to overthrow the czar's would come from the peasants. Their goal was that government that would distribute the land fairly among the peasants. They wanted to replace the czar with a democratically elected government. The Social Democrats convinced futu...

Food, we all need it and yet so many of us go without it. The reasons we all know; drought, famine, flooding and just not having enough economic resources either as a state or individual to buy food. Populations have risen at a greater rate then which the farmers of that country can provide for them...

Social Revolutionaries believed the force to overthrow the czar's would come from the peasants. Their goal was that government that would distribute the land fairly among the peasants. They wanted to replace the czar with a democratically elected government. The Social Democrats convinced fu...

Conflict in China essay Why did the century's long dynastic rule end in china? China is one of the world's most ancient nations with a recorded history that stretches back more than 4000 years. For centuries, China was ruled by dynasties of powerful emperors and had not had any ...

Anti-Semitism had been around in Germany and the whole of Europe for hundreds of years prior to World War One. Many scholars trace German anti-Semitism back to the time of Martin Luther and even farther back into history. So is it a fair assumption to say that World War One was the turning point in ...

Joseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin's death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were to build hea...

Part 1The significance of the NEP in the 1920's in the Soviet Union was great. It would be looked upon later by peasants as a period of hope. The New Economic Policy was viable to a degree, but obviously not the complete answer for the Soviets economic ailments. In the end, few benefited from the...

In contrasting the social, economic, and political policies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Nikita Khrushchev, it can be seen that Lenin and Stalin's policies were alike in many ways, although Stalin's were a bit harsher, and that Khrushchev's policies differed from those of both Lenin and Sta...

party, but only fourteen achieved their goal, including Gorbachev. He had a passion for the Communist Party, and he would not let his family get in the way of his work in the Communist party. For example, Gorbachev saw that some of his friends parents were a political disgrace and he called for thei...

GLOBALIZATIONHas Globalization gone too far? Many believe that the new global economy generates a race to the bottom in labor, economic, and social standards. Globalization is the process by which events in distant places affect people's lives and their opportunities. Trade and finance are...

This essay aims to discuss the consequences and significance that the Russian revolution in 1917, brought to the world and in Russia. It covers issues such as the changes in Russia and the world. Firstly, it looks at the changes in Russia. Secondly, what actually didn\'t change in Russia. Thirdly, ...

The cost of World War One had a significant impact on Russian society. During the war Russia suffered great economic and military loses. This was the stepping-stone for revolutions that changed Russia into a Communist society. So it can be scene that World War One and its effects on Russian society ...