Deborah Nyeudibnov

Goodbye Lenin! (2003) appropriates the individual as bound to his environment, threaded, through strong cultural codes, to his neighbour. Regardless of the system, communist or capitalist, and though our goals may deviate, we are all pursuing happiness and comfort, the tools used to attain this products of that society. That said, it is immediately legible whereabouts Becker wishes us to view the East German state as wholly negative, and he does this through several key scenes.

Both the Bolsheviks and the Nazis shared a fundamental commitment to create a creating a higher human type. However, the ideals and approaches of both regimes towards this mission differed substantially. While the Nazis sought to create a master race above all in European hierarchy, the Bolsheviks sought a system of liberation of their entire race and complete equality. Within both ideologies, the role of women was a hotbed of debate and instigated a period of change. In Germany, women confined to roles that were ‘natural’ or intended by nature, while in Russia, although women ‘received’ previously inaccessible rights and freedoms, it became more of a burden rather than a boon, The creation of “new men and women,” became more about the removal of undesirable classes or nationalities and the integration of the rest of the population with particular characteristics. Women were expected to accept state-propagated guidelines for conduct and appearance, and conform to certain gender roles that were defined by the state. In Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ideology, the rebirth of the nation, its prosperity and survival depended directly on women’s conformity to the propagated feminine ideal and thus, their participation was severely influenced by the regime’s economic, social and political policies. In this essay, I

Former New York Yankee, Wally Pip was impressed by my talent. He said that I was the most accomplished man or woman he has ever seen in and out of the sport. Word soon got around that he was impressed and that he liked me

John Lewis Gaddis offers a different opinion of the one responsible for the Cold War. He believes that Stalin’s authoritarian vision was a minor issue; the big issue

In chapter one Bartov tackles the issue of the modernization and structure of the Wehrmacht. Bartov walks the reader through the unsuspected events the Wehrmacht faced when it entered Russia. When the Wehrmacht invaded Russia their tanks were outnumbered five to one. It was hard to understand how the Wehrmacht lost so many men when the Wehrmacht made the French army crumble in six weeks. It seemed that everyone, even the Allied powers, had greatly underestimated the power of

The production focuses on the period before and during Koschorrek’s station in Stalingrad and places Hitler’s decision for a two-front war in a historical context. The documentary covers the massive success of ‘Operation Barbarossa’, Hitler’s artillery barrage strategy in 1941 up until the retreat of the German army in 1943. Hitler Turns East tells the audience how the German army ultimately failed despite its initial success. Although the German army quickly and powerfully dissolved Soviet defenses, the Red Army bought the German troops to a standstill. These aspects of the documentary are clearly accounted by Koschorrek in far more, firsthand detail in his memoir. The Soviet Army continually drives the German troops from their positions and this is specifically shown in Koschorrek’s entry of November 20th and December 13th 1942. Stationed along the Don, a river running along Stalingrad, Koschorrek records “the Russians have also broken through,” Romanian lines in the south, “and are coming at us from both sides, trying to take us in a pincer movement”. The documentary specifically remarks on the pincer strategy of the Soviet troops, a method that attempts to encircle and surround troops but cutting off defense lines at both sides. The documentary also remarks on the involvement of Romanian troops while Koschorreck goes into more detail of their social behavior (as soldiers) rather than

Rubashov’s character vacillates between embracing the individualistic traits of his nature to the pull exerted on him by the indoctrination of the ideology of the greater good, even at the expense of individual liberty and freedom. Rubashov, during his time in prison though shows a propensity to acknowledge the failure of the glorious tenets of the Revolution, for he has seen the horror of the totalitarian system in the purges carried out by the party leaders under the pretext of filtering traitors. In an acknowledgement of the folly of his and the Party’s ways, Rubashov states “…we are doing the work of prophets without their gift. We replaced vision by logical discussion…” and it is this acceptance of their shortcomings that shows the transformation of Rubashov.

It can be argued that Leon Trotsky’s naïve personality is what failed him in the attempt to achieve power, but through his intelligence and sturdy leadership, he shaped the Russian and International history to the way it is today. Through his main roles as ‘Commissar for Foreign Affairs’, ‘Commissar for War’ and the political position in the Politburo, Trotsky impacted society by his efforts in control and fight for power, and his aim to spread his communist ideals of ‘comintern’ (Communist

Briefly, how does Merridale say that people like Ilya Natanovich adapted to the cognitive dissonance of Soviet patriotism? Does

Were it a testimony to the rigors and cruelness of human nature, it would be crushing. As it is, it shatters our perception of man and ourselves as no other book, besides perhaps Anne Franke`s diary and the testimony of Elie Wiesl, could ever have done. The prisoners of the labor camp, as in Shukhov?s predicament, were required to behave as Soviets or face severe punishment. In an almost satirical tone Buinovsky exclaims to the squadron that ?You?re not behaving like Soviet People,? and went on saying, ?You?re not behaving like communist.? (28) This type of internal monologue clearly persuades a tone of aggravation and sarcasm directly associated to the oppression?s of communism.

From Stalin’s Cult of Personality to Khrushchev’s period of De-Stalinization, the nation of the Soviet Union was in endless disarray of what to regard as true in the sense of a socialist direction. The short story, This is Moscow Speaking, written by Yuli Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) represents the ideology that the citizens of the USSR were constantly living in fear of the alternations of their nation’s political policies. Even more, the novella gives an explanation for the people’s desire to conform to the principles around them.

Tatiana de Rosnay was born on 28 September 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Her dad is French of Russian starting point, her mom English. She depicts herself as "Franglaise" and brought up in Boston and Paris. She studied on writing in England, at the University of East Anglia, Tatiana worked in Paris as a columnist for Vanity Fair, Psychologies, IT and the JDD.

Martha Nussbaum is an “American philosopher”. She has written extensively about issues such as politics, feminism, and ethics. She is a professor at the University Chicago and regularly reviews books for the New York Review of Books and the New Republic. She has taught law at several prestigious universities. As of 2013, at the time of the publication of Creating Capabilities, she had independently written over 91 books and articles (Nussbaum, 2013). In the 1980’s she joined Senn in creating the “capabilities approach”. Nussbaum is revered as the “most renowned female philosopher of modern times” (Famousphilosophers.org, 2017).

Kerman bases his arguments in the Long Telegram around the nature of Russian-Communism. Fundamental to Communist thought are the beliefs that: economies define societies, capitalism is evil, creates inequality and will self-destruct and that imperialism leads to war. In Soviet Russia internal security was established through dictatorship, police forces and the recognition of the party as the sole source of truth. Externally security is seen as the inability to share power, expansionism and the duty to overthrow opposing political forces. Kerman analyses these beliefs and the Soviet system before suggesting appropriate US responses.

Helena was born in Ekaterinoslav, Russia, on July 31, 1831. Her father, Col. Hahn von Rothernstern Hahn and mother Helena Andreyevna both came from noble families, Helena's mother, being Princess Helena Dolgorouky, daughter("Blavatsky Study Center"). She was an unusual child though, she displayed neurotic behavior from almost infancy such as sleep walking and talking,and a unusual love for weird and grisly things. She was also said to be short tempered when she didn't get her way.("Helena Petrovna Blavatsky"). She also possessed psychic powers that puzzled her family and friends ("Blavatsky Study Center"). During this time period, there was a lot of interest in nature spirits, witchcraft, and magical customs and rites, but helena was believed