The Adventures of Mr. West in th Land of the Bolsheviks

The food was not the same for everyone. The rich people had really good food but it was a different story for the poor people. Poor people did not have good and sometimes it was the left overs from the rich people. Food was fancy like their life.

Propaganda used to induce terror included posters, political statements, and comics. One such comic was Is This Tomorrow?, a popular dramatization of the Soviets and of communism(Document 7). By depicting the Soviets in such a violent, authoritarian light, it spread anti-communist feeling among Americans, and attempted to prevent any Soviet sympathizers. In the Soviet Union, a secret speech made by Nikita Khrushchev to the closed session of the Twentieth Party of Congress denounces capitalism and fights against the anti-communist campaign(Document 6). The Secret Speech was a counter to recently made anti-communist organizations, and reinforced the Soviet Union’s own ideals, while countering the US’s arguments for capitalism. Through the use of past faults and militaristic policies, Khrushchev argues that the US’s attempts at peace were false, and only a front for their true intentions. This effectively promoted terror and anti-capitalist feeling among Soviet Congress. It gave strong reasoning to fight back against Americans, as it instilled fears of a capitalist overtake, and the need for preservation of the

All of the scenes in the film can be related to agriculture and food consumption. The first scene may have been a farm, but then it quickly transfers into images of a factory. The film showed us that after factory production the next transition for food is the super markets. This enlightens the audience that all of the food on shelves comes from a production factory. Which would make sense considering the size of America, and the amount of supermarkets. The next topic is that most food is available year round, and that there are no seasons in super markets. With the use

The Bolshevik Consolidation of Power 1918-21 The Bolsheviks under Lenin, when they came into power in October 1917, faced immense problems in trying to consolidate their hold over the ex-tsarist empire. Firstly, how were the Bolsheviks, in view of their military resources, to extend their hold over the nation at large? The second, was how could they achieve a speedy end to the war and effect a rapid withdrawal of the German army, which was currently occupying the western part of Russia. Thirdly, how quickly would they be able to stage an economic recovery?

In the time after WWII, propaganda that was used to garner support and encourage patriotism for the war had turned into a tool to perpetuate a state of paranoia. America feared losing its integrity to the conflicts that continuously cropped up on the other side of the world. One of the greatest threats came from communism: an entity that seemed to be intent on the consumption the entire European continent and would quickly reach out towards U.S. shores. In an attempt to combat this perceived threat, the U.S. government produced a new line of propaganda to convince her citizens that the communists were evil. One of the most common, and effective, ways to reach the people was through cinema. In the short film, “Make Mine Freedom”, John Q. Public represents communism as deceitful, corrupt, and non-individualistic in comparison to capitalism’s opposite representation as a prosperous, free, and economically mobile society that can be conflated with freedom in a patriotic light.

Pierce took her diary entries and letters and created the book: Trapped in “Black Russia” , explains the side of the war about being American in the Soviet Union during the months of June to November of 1915. Pierce explained her horrors of seeing the death in the streets, the Jewish detention camp, and seeing the Governor of Kiev send his things away before his people, in the rush to get away from the advancing German lines. Peter, who was a significant other in Pierce's life, helped her during her time of her arrest. Pierce managed to keep her humanity, feeling sympathy to all no matter their religion or race, as her time in Kiev grew longer. When on the train going away fro Kiev, Pierce did not feel relief or joy, just contemp, knowing her

The first red scare was in 1917 after the Bolshevik Russian Revolution . It took the United States by storm. It created a national fear of communists, socialists, and other protesters suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. The nation was griped with fear. In late April 1919, at least 36 dynamite-filled bombs were mailed to a cross-section of prominent politicians and appointees, including the Attorney General of the United States, as well as justice officials, newspaper editors and businessmen, including John D. Rockefeller. Fueled unrest and the anarchist bombings, and then spurred on by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's attempt to suppress radical and non-radical labor organizations,

The outbreak of the Cold War, a production of conflicting political ideologies between the United States and the Soviet Union, led to a dramatic increase in both anti-American and anti-Soviet propaganda film productions. Why an increase in film production during the war? In fact, film is a unique form of propaganda in that it presents a combination of moving images and sound. At times, film conveys message through silence and one doesn't necessarily have to be a literate or highly educated to understand its motif. The US successfully used film to adversely mold its people’s perception about communism. Now, let’s divide the types of film that the US used to prevent the spread of communism: First, films that arouse a sense of fear, second, films

Barbara Evans Clements, a retired professor of History from the University of Akron, and author of Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai (1979), Daughters of Revolution: A History of Women in the USSR (1994), and Bolshevik Women (1997), wrote the article “Working-Class and Peasant Women in the Russian Revolution, 1917-1923” in 1982 to address a topic she believed other scholars of Russian’s history were overlooking. Clements argues that through further investigation into the experiences of peasant and working-class women of the time, scholars can better address the “paradox, in which lavish promises” presented by the emergent Bolshevik party, and the “enormous deprivation and frightening social disintegration” affected Russian history, and her people (215). From 1917-1923, the chaotic period of Russian history was fraught with turmoil due to the revolution and the civil war taking place, creating a great deal of difficulty for scholars, like Clements, who were attempting to synthesize the narrative of Russian history. As an address for further study in this area of history, Clements extends her argument to promote the value of women’s experiences in order to urge on the new revelations such study might generate as further scholarly discourse continues to progress.

As World War II was coming to an end and the Ally armies were converging, two superpowers came to meet with one another on the outskirts of Berlin. With the momentum that the Red Army was making against Germany, many in the Allies believed that the Communists would continue to sweep across Europe. Although united against the greatest evil the world had ever known, both sides of the opposing economic theories viewed each other as the next enemy after the war. No war ever occurred between the Soviet Union and the United States, at least not one that was fought with soldiers. A war of espionage, alliances, and what this essay will focus on; propaganda. Propaganda was second nature to the Soviet Union, as from its insurrection the Soviet Union worked to convince its population and the world of how it’s system of economic governance was the better solution. This propaganda can take the form of any type of media, such as: pamphlets and flyers, radio and television, and film and animations or even word of mouth. It can be created to bolster one 's own goals, to discredit the goals of others, or a combination of both. As you will see in the following propaganda campaigns, it is common for pro-communist pieces to bolster its perception while damaging the beliefs of capitalism. Some propaganda may be truthful, however often a fact of such material is that hyperboles or straight-out lies are used to give your position the stronger claim. While in this essay I will not analyze the

Bound by a common enemy, the US viewed Russia as a comrade during World War 2. It became popular for American propaganda to stress Russia’s similarity to America. Both were anti-imperialist and had a revolutionary past. However, the emphasis on sameness proved a temporary facade, a reaction to Soviet war efforts rather than a re-reprisal. At the end of the war, the American government (and its people by extension), no longer allies, returned to it’s original position of distrust of communism and the USSR government. Once more, Americans began looking at the Soviet Union with fear disguised as disdain. Soviet-American tensions rose by the end of World War 2. To Americans, Stalin became a new Hitler-demagogic, dictatorial, demanding personal loyalty and conniving to rule other peoples.

What would the History of the world have be if the United States never landed on the moon, but instead the Soviet Union was successful at sending cosmonauts to the moon and were the first humans to ever step foot on a celestial body? This is what I wanted to explore in my research, this is all subjective we cannot go back in time to see what the outcome would have been if it never happened the way it did. The idea has been talked about even with the sceptics who think the whole moon landing in 1969 was a hoax to give the United States the title and make the Soviets stop pursuing the moon landing. In this paper I want to give a little history of actual events and then examine ideas of alternative events.

During the formation of the Soviet Union, leaders such as Stalin not only wanted to attain all authoritarian and political based rule, but also wanted to attain and achieve a much more complicated task. Several Soviet Union leaders wanted to attain what was known as the “New Soviet Man”. This meant that all forms of society and communities would detach from their former ideals and fully take on being a soviet and acknowledging the culture in a religious manner. This meant the eradication of culture and all other religions Stalin disapproved of, and the formation and practice of one religion. This also meant the disintegration of ethnic communities, and the detachment of religion, such as islam.”The acknowledgement of cultural diversity did

The primary purpose of this film was to explain the source of the food we eat and how it is produced. I think the film did a good job explaining how the food we eat is produced. In addition to that the film did a good job explaining the food companies and how they produce and market their products. I was also able to learn how these food companies treat the animals and the workers they are using. Essentially this film explained how the food companies produce their products, the reason why they produce their product in such methods, and the way they treat the animals and their

Account For the Success of the Bolsheviks in October 1917 At the beginning of 1917 most of the Bolsheviks were in exile but by the end of 1917 the Bolshevik party had not only consolidated control of Moscow and Petrograd, but they were also advancing on the rest of the country. This success was due to several linked factors; the Bolshevik policy of non-cooperation, weakness of the Provisional Government, division of alternative opposition, Lenin's leadership skills, the power of the Petrograd Soviet and Trotsky as its leader, failure on deliver of land reform and the oppressed, armed workers in Petrograd. Bolshevik success is dictated by whether they met their aims; these included the