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competition from a rival intelligence organization. With the death of Roosevelt in April of 1945, the OSS was disbanded under Truman and departments were either relocated or completely dissolved. Soviet intelligence began with the formation of the Cheka, secret police, under Feliks Dzerzhinsky at the time of the revolution. By 1946, this agency had evolved into the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), and the Ministry of State Security (MGB) both ruled by Lavrenti Beria. This man was undoubtedly

Lenin's Rule and Effect on USSR It has been said, by Winston Churchill no less, that “The Russian people’s worst misfortune was his birth; their next was his death.” There is much truth in this statement, because Churchill was able to see that as Lenin matured, so did his policies, and these lead to improving conditions for the Russian people. As Lenin matured as a leader, so did his policies; as Lenin died his policies died with him. When Lenin first found himself

Summary, context of the era depicted, description of major social, economic, or cultural forces in the era and how the film addressed nature of the era: Doctor Zhivago for the most part was set during the time of World War I , spans the Russian revolution and civil war. It also moves through the “terror of the thirties”, where the main character Doctor Zhivago was able to survive through all of it, and ends in the mid-1940s (Howe, 2013). The movie starts and ends in the late 1940s to early1950s and

Term 3 History Research Paper Discuss the impacts of Hitler's political, social and economical control of Germany in the Third Reich. (1500 words) Hitler rose to power after President Hindenburg's demise yielded him presidency in addition to the Chancellor role he already held. This made him the Fuhrer (Supreme Leader) with complete control of Germany. He took numerous political, social and economical measures to ensure his popularity amongst his people so as to prevent rebellion. He already

Identified within this study is the argument that whilst many of Lenin’s theories and practices were continued under Stalin, many were in fact developed and extended to new levels, possibly reflecting different motives: what Pipes refers to as Stalin’s ‘personality of excesses’. Although for many years, numerous historians including both members of the Western school of thought (such as Pipes), along with the official Soviet historians of the time believed that Stalin was

The story takes place on a farm somewhere in England. The story starts with the vision of animals of the farm. The vision goes in vain at last. Animal Farm is a satirical novel (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by Orwell. It is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. The farm's prize-winning pig, Old Major, calls a meeting of all the animals of Manor Farm. He tells them that he has had a dream in which mankind is gone and animals are free to live in peace and harmony

Russian History 1. Catherine II (the Great). The successor of the sickly Peter III, Catherine II was his wife until his suspected murder and she took the throne in 1762. Although she made no great reforms in Russian society, she gathered many friends by her death in 1796. Catherine had to keep the nobility pleased at all times because if she didn’t she could be dethroned easily. Because of this she carried out very few social reforms. Russia continued to follow an economic growth that Peter

The Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov Andrew Wright ‘The Heart of a Dog’, written by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1925, is a satirical parable illustrating the provincial failures of the Russian regime, post-revolution. According to S. Fusso, Bulgakov’s allegory is not, unlike Orwell’s, “simple or naïve”,1 but one that offers an exploration of various different themes, from the ethical implications of eugenics “that so fascinated the scientific community during the 1920s”,2 to the farcical revolution of