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    THE COLD WAR The cold war was from 1947- 1991. During that time, the world was on the brink of a nuclear war, where the whole human population was in mere seconds of extinction. The cold war was called the cold war because it was an indirect war, not physical(hot) but non physica(cold). It was a war of two types of governments. Socialism and Capitalism. It was a dreaded time for both countries, and their people. There is evidence that the USSR started it, but there are many advocates for that

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    After the death of Bolshevik leader and revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, in 1924, it was decided that Joseph Stalin would become the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Stalin’s views on the strength of the Soviet economy and the institution of the Marxist-Leninist ideals in the society were that it was in a dire state. He believed that through a series of Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union would be able to reach the economic and technological levels of the further advanced countries of the time

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    On December 5, 1936, the Soviet Union adopted a new constitution to reform the government. It replaced the 1924 constitution that was ratified shortly after the death of Vladimir Lenin. The 1936 constitution lasted until 1977, when a new constitution was adopted. According to a former kulak named Andrei Arzhilovsky, people celebrated on the streets when the constitution was ratified, and everyone called it the “Stalin Constitution”. Rightfully so, it deserved the name because Josef Stalin was heavily

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    ames Soria Mrs.McFarlin Hon comp/lit 17 September 2015 Animal Farm Study Guide 1. Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the head of the government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Lenin came to power in 1917. Lenin engineered the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and later took over as the first leader of the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

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    been forever changed by a Communist government. Vladimir Lenin established the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1912. In 1924 Joseph Stalin took reign, which is the time period this paper will be focusing on. Communism in the Soviet Union finally came to an end in 1991. Communism affects not only industries and engineers there became firm regulations for all of the arts. In an effort to unify all the arts under the Communist rule, Lenin once

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    On the 25th of February 1956, the twentieth congress of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev gained 1,500 delegates and many invited visitors to assembled in Moscow in the Great Hall of Kremlin as to deliver a speech on the recently – deceased Joseph Stalin. In the next 4 hours, Khrushchev went on criticizing on every aspect of Stalin’s method of rule. The well-known speech entitled “On The Cult of Individual and its Consequences” become simply known as Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech”. Primary sources

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    The Russian Revolution started in 1905 through 1917. It happened because there were a series of revolution that started in 1905, including the bloody sunday. This name was because priest disagreed that workers had no rights to he went to Czar’s house and just started shooting everywhere. Russian revolution had five or six causes we have three really important causes. We had the weakness of Russia, the World War one, the mistakes of Tsar's, Army abandoned the Tsar, Duma abandoned Tsars, but the

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    Napoleon, the head pig of animal farm, is most similarly characterized as the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin. Stalin gained control of the Communist Party in 1928 after the October Revolution and inherited the Soviet Union from the powerful Vladimir Lenin. As he acquired control, he sought to create the first successful communist country. Under his rule, he initiated the five-year-plan, an attempt to industrialize the country to compete with foreign nations. Not long after, he instituted the policy

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    “Peace, land, and bread”; the battle cry for the country during the Russian Revolution. With this in mind, in the early 1900s, a rebellion swept through one of the biggest empires in Asia. This revolution was unparalleled event in modern history (History: The Russian Revolution). Nonetheless, the historical background of this time period can be displayed in various forms. In this case, “Twelve” by Alexander Blok, is a poem that reflects the Russian Revolution and the struggles in that time period

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    Architecture should not be separated from political and social life of human-beings. On the contrary, “throughout the history, architects have always been involved to some extent to politics, and have a nearly always sought positions of power and influence’’. Communist ideology in the Soviet Union had a huge impact on architectural development of many modern nations: Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Armenia

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