Soviet Union Research Paper

World leaders are leaders with high governmental power in the world. Every leader, not just world leaders, is either great or corrupt; they are rarely both. Most of Russia’s history is filled with corrupt leaders. Joseph was one of those leaders. Stalin killed millions of people during his rule. But Stalin also led the Soviet Union almost to the top in world power. Stalin had many influences that led him to his Soviet Leadership in which gave him many admirers but even more non-supporters.

Serving as one the most controversial leaders of the Soviet Union during its relatively short existence, Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev proved to be a leader capable of transforming a nation. Through his many alterations to the systems by which the Soviets lived, he managed to increase the standard of living and productivity of this Communist State. Described as a man of enormous energy and drive, he was shrewd, tough, earthy, sociable and talkative, and he confidently took colossal gambles in both foreign and domestic policies. From his "Secret Speech" and the following De-Stalinization of the Union, to the friendly relations with other countries of the world, his goal to remodel the Soviet Union into an

When Mikhail Gorbachev became Secretary of the Communist Party, he had to deal with an ailing and frail Soviet Union. The country had entered a state of serious economic decline and the Soviet people, discontent with their political party, looked to Gorbachev to solve their problems. Spurred by patriotic duty, Gorbachev introduced democratic reforms known as perestroika and glasnost. These sought to free businesses and Soviet peoples from harsh government regulation and censorship, respectively. While Gorbachev believed these policies would strengthen the Soviet government, this was not the case. Perestroika did not do anything to

Josef Stalin started controlling the Soviet government during the late 1920’s. He called for a rapid industrialization of the Soviet economy. Stalin also forced farmers and peasant to give up their land and work on collectives, which are larger government owned farms. Other nations did not know about the treatment of their citizens, but were impressed with the Soviet Union's economic gains. In 1933, the United States finally recognized the Soviet Union.

“If the Soviet Union let another political party into existence they would still be one state party state because everybody would join the other party,” is a quote by Ronald Reagan about the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union(USSR) is a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1999. It's fall resulted from its government-run economy not working very well. Soviet Union was run by Vladimir Lenin, dictator who overthrew Russian monarchy, and Bolshevik communist. At first USSR aligned with the US to defeat the Nazi Germany. But the countries soon turn against each other due to the difference in perspective about how government should run in 1945. Their clash was a major part of cold war. Now with all this information

Under the pressures of the Soviet regime's plans for economic development, the Russian people were worn down. Subsequently, the willingness of these people to do further work for the Soviet cause was wavering. The transfer of power within the Communist Party also provided a source of instability within the USSR. Infighting over potential leadership changes provided a very real force of upheaval within Russia. These weaknesses showed that the USSR may bring about its own downfall.

In the 1900’s Russia was a world superpower. But the only port, Port Vladivostok, was only accessible in the summer seasons of Russia. But Japan’s fort, Fort Arthur, was open all year long. Russia, who looking to expand out farther, asked Japan if they could use Fort Arthur for their Navy, and maritime trades. Russia even went as far as to set up a neutral buffer zone in North Korea on the 39th parallel to negotiate. Japan however misunderstood this and took it as a threat, bombing their own fort, and starting the first great war of the 20th century.

When Joseph Stalin was in control on Russia it meant that the people lost freedom. Everything that was done in the USSR had to be approved by the government. The people of Russia had no access to the media. Stalin believed that capitalist societies were driven by self-interest and oppressed people. In Churchill's "Iron Curtin Speech" he is talking about the necessary actions to maintain peace in Europe. Stalin's response to him seems like he's provoking other European nations to initiate warfare against Russia. Stalin compares Chruchill's words to those of Hitler regarding "racial theory" and says "Churchill only calls to the English-speaking nations of the world" (Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill, 1946). When Stalin made this accusation,

DICTATORS of hermetically sealed nations do terrible things to their people to retain power. Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot are perhaps the most infamous examples in recent history of despots who controlled every waking moment of their subjects' lives from inside the impenetrable boundaries of their countries.

The Cold War was tense period for the world. The superpowers of the world, Russia and the United States were both capable of causing world destruction through nuclear weapons. The Americans were tired and just wanted to the tensions to ease. USSR and The United States competed over various things to show superiority, including the space race and especially the massive arms buildup. President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev both had promises that they had made to the nation. Khrushchev was close to losing popularity in Russia, the Russians believed that he was not doing enough for the country as a leader. Kennedy’s statements bragging about “U.S. nuclear superiority” (Donaldson 118), made Khrushchev and the Soviet look bad.

No citizen was immune to the wayward forced labor camps that were formed in the Soviet Union officially in 1930. These camps were administered by the government agency known as The Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Labor Settlements. This agency was then referred to as the acronym for this title- Gulag- and eventually the whole camp system was known as the Gulag (Applebaum viii). The Gulags were the Soviet’s penal system and Stalin’s administration used the camps as free labor to complete construction projects involving canals, railways, roads, and mines. Anyone could be sent, without trial, to a Gulag camp, regardless of their gender, age, political views, or ancestry. Felons who committed crimes of rape, murder, and robbery

During the 1970s communism started to gain popularity among Asian countries, for instance in Vietnam and Cambodia. The communist party in Cambodia led by Pol Pot, the Kampuchea People Revolutionary Party, started underground and slowly rose to power. The KPRP, was the most prominent communist party at that time. This is because the ex-ruler Sihanouk supported it. In the beginning of its rule the KPRP was accepting of the monks and even Chantou Boua, a woman who was in Cambodia during the civil war period of 1970-1975, stated that it was not entirely “clear what the Khmers policy was towards Buddhism”. However, this was during a time before the Khmer Rouge had complete power. With the support of Sihanouk, who devised a militant organization

China has been a communist country since the communist revolution took place in 1949, since then China has been ruled by the dictator Mao Tse-Tung. However the Chinese dictator died in September 1976, he was hailed abroad as one of the worlds’ great leaders. Certainly one of the more impressive aspects of the Chinese communist government, has been the willingness of the people to protest against it (3, pg. 4).

Why did Stalin emerge as leader of the USSR in 1929? “Stalin is a Genghis Khan, an unscrupulous intriguer” (Bukharin 1928). In 1929, by his 50th birthday, Stalin was undisputedly the leader of the USSR. This essay aims to show that there were four large contributing factors to why Stalin was able to become party leader and these were his positions within the party, his political skill and cunning nature, mistakes made by other contenders, especially Trotsky and luck. This essay aims to show that the most important factor was that Stalin held key positions in the party.

917 were hard and trying times for Russians all over the country. Russia had a horrible leader consequently when they needed a good one, with the war in progress etc. Times were changing, for the better and they needed a suitable person for the occasion. But they were stuck With Tsar Nicholas II. Its only reasonable to say that if they didn't have a rather pathetic Emperor then people wouldn't have wanted to change, meaning they wouldn't of revolutionized their country, themselves, the government and their attitudes. People evolve.