Stalin's Communism

Totalitarianism is a system of government in which the state acts to extends its absolute authority and power into all aspects of its citizen’s lives and have that population be completely under the control of a totally pervasive ruling ideology of a single leader. The essence of totalitarianism can be found in its very name; it is a form of rule in which the government attempts to maintain 'total' control over society, and further seeks to meld that state’s beliefs within that societies core roots, an example of this occurrence can be liquidised through Stalin and his methods in Russia during the 1920’s and 30’s. Carl Friedrich’s, a late political scientist and historian of the 20th century formed the basis of a totalitarian

"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will" said Stalin once. He certainly did have cause to believe in the power of a human's will as he experienced it in himself firsthand, having had extraordinary willpower and perseverance (He didn't call himself "Man of Steel" for nothing, folks), rising up from the lowly station of alcoholic's son in Georgia to one of the biggest monsters in human history, supposedly killing more than Hitler. Exactly how did he do this? Why? And how did his corruption reach such extents as to do all this for power?

Despite they’re being many similarities between Tsarism and Stalinism, it is too far to say Joseph Stalin acted in a way for him to be known as a “Red Tsar”. He implemented much of the same strategies as the Tsars before him but also drifted away and opposed much of Tsarism. His believed communism was the underlying factor in changing Russia, which wasn’t the case of a Tsarist regime. He portrayed himself as a personality cult who used the media to convey an ideolised heroic version of himself, very much like Tsar Nicholas II. He also implemented much of the same governmental structures of Tsarism, just under the badge of communism. Whilst Tsars had their body of Nobles and Okrana, Stalin had his Nomenklatura and NVKD. He controlled, manipulated

Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.

In 1917, Tsar Nicholas ll is the current ruler of Russia. Russia’s economic growth is increased by the czar’s reforms of the production of more factories. Since, Russia desperately needed to keep up with the rest of Europe’s industry. This reform worked out perfectly, but the working conditions of these factories didn’t please factory workers. After the events of the Russo-Japenese War, “Bloody Sunday”, and WW1, all of Russia was in utter chaos under the czar’s ghastly leadership. With no signs of the czar’s attempt to solve the problems that kept coming up, all of Russia banded together and filled the streets with strikes and riots. A revolution was peaking among the peasants. The uprising brought Nicholas ll no choice but to abdicate

One of the most brutal mistakes made by Stalin was the creation of a GULAG. It is difficult to give a precise characterization of its purpose. The aim of this work is to answer the question, “Can we generalize why certain people were able to survive the Gulag more than others?” To survive the Gulag, many prisoners had to fight with others for food, shelter, and simple medical care. Certain prisoners went into religious and intellectual meditations to preserve at least the appearance of intelligence. The survival required willpower, strength of mind, skills, mercilessness, and a lot of luck.

I see the picture on the left to be as Stalin to be as a caring person.He seems to care about his citizens. He was portrayed as good person which then brings you to the second picture.In the right he is seen as a communist ruler and seems a little majestic. I believe that the one on the left is when the United States saw Russia as a problem because we believed they would spread their communist views. We can learn from these pictures that we shifted from allies to enemy. One is while the U.S.A was allies with Russia and the other on the left is when we feared communism the Red Scare.

In 1924 capitalism was no longer prevalent in the Soviet Union. The change was due to a sweeping absorption from the Communist Party of everything that could be possibly controlled to secure power domestically, and changing the minds of a nation to all see capitalist behavior as wrong. Once eradicated, scare tactics went from highlighting the negativity of domestic capitalism, to how the nasty capitalists of the outside world were going to get them - despite there being no reality in those actions to back up the accusations. So with unlimited domestic authority and a cultivation of false foreign hostility, with the help of the secret police and an economic monopoly, a new power structure shaped the Soviet Union.

Communist rule was confined to the Soviet Union until the end of World War II.

After World War II, the Soviet Union wanted to create more communist nations, especially along their western border, to prevent themselves from being vulnerable to attack from the West again as they had been from Nazi Germany. Countries like the United States and Great Britain did not want the Soviet Union to spread communism but some Eastern European countries that had been victims of the Nazi regime saw communism as a good way to prevent another fascist regime from rising. Combined with the fact that most Eastern European had a history of unstable government systems and were in poor economic and political states, communism had a very large appeal to most Eastern Europeans. With the help of Soviet military intervention, communism quickly

Words are the very top of every food chain that has ended in violence or disaster. Words shape the ideas, view-points, and overall morality of every decision that is made, weather it be a bad or a good decision. Word such as God for example; bring happiness and security to the average human. On the contrary, words like evil set a uncomfortable, unstable, negatively resonating vibe that begins to make us feel uneasy. The word communism initially has the same effect, however when people hear this word all they think of is history class and Russia. No one truly understands the evils and misunderstood fallacies, communism is truly evil and all of its internal endeavors reach into every aspect of society changing it forever.

During the period, prior to India's Independence, the Communist Party of India's responses to freedom struggle were dictated by the Comintern's views. After its admission to the Third International, the Communist Party of India was seen to be guided by the policies imposed by Joseph Stalin on the international communist movement. Stalin's policies were, in turn, dictated by Russia's geopolitical interests. As a result the positions taken by the CPI ran many times counter to popular nationalist sentiments, leading to erosion of the Party's popular base.

Over the course of humanity women have sought to gain equality with men. Women have been repressed and due to the fact they weren’t social, political or economical equal to men. Many opportunities have been taken away from women for example, being able of participating in government institutions, being able to participate in factory or simply working in the agricultural sector. When communism is introduced to society, women were treated as equal to men and finally the struggle against this long term racial dysfunction was finally improving. Communist movements in the 20th century made women life style change immensely, communism changed the way women were viewed in society and due to this feminism sparked in this era.

In London, Marx was finally able to settle down for the rest of his life. He did not have much money, so he had to live in poverty until he died. This did not stop his initiative though; in London, he created a new headquarters for the Communist League as well as another organization. He continued to work as a journalist, but this never gave him enough money to live comfortably. The last piece of work that was written by Marx was Das Kapital. He wrote this book and then spent the rest of his life continuing to write the manuscripts for the remaining volumes of the book, but he was never able to complete these. Marx died in London, on March 14, 1883, his cause of death was identified as pleurisy. Even though he lived in poverty until he died, he had a very large tombstone that had the finals words of his book The Communist Manifesto inscribed in it.

The command system, which is also described as Marxism, socialism, or communism, is both a political and economic philosophy. In a communist economy, the government owns most of the firms, subsequently controlling production and allocation of resources. One of the most well-known and well-documented cases of a communist government took place in the Soviet Union, beginning in 1917 and eventually falling in 1992. Idealistically, communism eliminates social classism and provides equal work for all in a particular society. The government appoints a central planning board to “determine production goals for each enterprise and to specify the amount of resources to be allocated to each enterprise so that it can reach its production goals.”