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Propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

the people would be controlled by propaganda. They were fed the things they wanted to hear. Of cause, it is much easier to lead pe...

Soviet Experiment by Suny, the Leadership of Vladimir Lenin and the Dictatorship of Joseph Stalin

methods were condemned after his death. The year of 1917 was a very tumultuous one in Russia as it not...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

20 Years of Important Environmental and Political Events

Century. This collapse has resulted in numerous world developments. One of the most important has been the attempted transition ...

The Reaction of the World to the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

had been assembled since World War II crossed the border into Czechoslovakia (Caute 327). Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Augus...

Vietnam's Postwar Socioeconomic Changes

combat, drastic measures were required to try and drive the Vietnamese out of their strongholds in the countryside. A policy of ma...

Legacies of Josef Stalin

(Conan). And when he was died, he was embalmed and revered, so much so that he was on display in the Lenin Mausoleum for years fol...

Post Soviet Period of Economic Transition

but a positive concept for post-Communist Russia to be out of the social barriers that confined them for so long; it also serves a...

Democratization of Russia

addition, have proven to benefit from the mindset expansion that accompanied the political fall. "A new breed of Russian civil se...

Relations Between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Truman Doctrine

nations of World War II as destinations for possible conquest. In response, that leader, Josef Stalin, grew to hate and mistrust t...

Analyzing a History of Yugoslavia from 1918 until 1991

of which was regarding the Istrian peninsula with Italy. This dispute continued despite the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, the Memoran...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

1956 'Secret Speech' of Nikita Khrushchev

This paper examines the far reaching impact of the 1956 speech made by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev consisting of 10 pages. T...

Human Trafficking and Organized Crime

(2) products (drugs, prostitution, gambling, loan-sharking, pornography) that have been outlawed " (Organized Crime, 2001). Tod...

David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb

In 5 pages this paper discusses Remnick's version of the Soviet Union's collapse and also offers different ideological interpretat...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

Great Purge of Josef Stalin

In ten pages this paper examines the infamous Great Purge of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Twelve sources are cited in the biblio...

1919 League of Nations and Why the Soviet Union Should Have Gained Acceptance

In six pages this paper discusses how World War II could have been prevented by a 1919 acceptance of the Soviet Union into the Lea...

Control Methods of Josef Stalin

In five pages the paper examines propaganda and the control methods employed by Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin. Six sources are...

The Division of Europe

help of the Soviets Europe would effectively be divided into two sections (1993). By the time 1950 rolled around, the world looke...

Weapons and Their Costs and Damage to Human Life

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Russia and Islam

production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...

1980s' Soviet Union

Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...

1980s' Revolution in Romania and Poland

TASS to comment approvingly that Polish authorities were "taking necessary measure to restore tranquility" (Johnson 18). Just ei...

Oppression and the Instruments of Josef Stalin

captivating. His ability to analyze a situation and devise the best logistics for rectifying it were also a part of his mechanism...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...