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Different types of governments depend on entire control of their citizens - dictatorships and totalitarian governments especially. There are many ways to control a population; propaganda and censorship among the most popular. Censorship is one of the most commonly employed methods of controlling the masses, used by the Capitol in The Hunger Games, Hitler in Nazi Germany, and Stalin in the USSR, but the Party in 1984 employs the ultimate and purest form of censorship. In the Hunger Games, the Capitol

policy began with the confiscation of surplus grain. It then extended to all other products. Abusive detachments fought peasant resistance with the terror of the Red Army, and in 1919 when they gained control, with the Extraordinary Commission (Cheka). What Lenin had thought would bring the triumph of communism rendered only misery and disorder. The Kronstadt Revolt in February, 1921 is an example of the indignation felt by those that saw the Bolshevik's policies as too oppressive. Finally,

From an optimistic vantage point on human existence and natural behavior, a Democratic Confederate Socialist government system spanning across the world, canvassing all separate countries that exist today, would be ideal. Being Democratic, it would serve to promote the ideas and serve the needs of the people for which it is created--fulfilling the social contract theory of John Locke. Being a Confederacy, instead of following a Unitary or Federal structure, it would serve even more to that end, as

The Bolshevik party was based on Marxist ideals, ideals which sought to rid society of class conflict and create an egalitarian society. After the fall of the provisional government, the Bolsheviks were now able to implement an economic policy of their own, introducing a form of communism called ‘War Communism’. It was a form of strict communism that, amongst many things, took money out of circulation and banned private enterprise. It should, therefore, seem surprising that the Bolshevik government

The Dogs of Bloodshed ANIMAL FARM Camryn Cooper- Quiroz P2 - January 30, 2015Introduction In the novel Animal Farm, the nine dogs represent the Secret Police of the Russian Revolution. The dogs are led by Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin, and follow every word he says and command given out. These animals are taken from their mother, by Napoleon, while they are still very young. He raises them himself, without anyone knowing of it. Napoleon raises the dogs to be vicious and threatening. They

Established as one of the most authoritative and intimidating rulers to have ever walked the face of the Earth, Joseph Stalin was the unmatched communist leader of the Soviet Union for nearly three decades. His regime of fear and terror took the lives of millions, and the implementation of harsh commanding methods consolidated his supreme control over the nation. From 1924 to 1940, the key elements involved in Stalin’s dictatorial regime over the Soviet Union were political propaganda and the accumulation

The Great Terror, an outbreak of organised bloodshed that infected the Communist Party and Soviet society in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), took place in the years 1934 to 1940. The Terror was created by the hegemonic figure, Joseph Stalin, one of the most powerful and lethal dictators in history. His paranoia and yearning to be a complete autocrat was enforced by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the communist police. Stalin’s ambition saw his determination

com/main/index.php?s=Serge%20Wolkonsky&item_type=topic" https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Serge%20Wolkonsky&item_type=topic) later on, around 1919 in the spring Serge Wolkonsky had contracted a disease called Typhus, and in August he was arrested by Cheka, a Emergency Committee. Prince Serge Wolkonsky was released and soon continued to teach and give lectures, but soon started to work on Proletkult and

Geneva: 1900–1905 * 2.4 The 1905 Revolution: 1905–1907 * 2.5 Return to exile: 1907–1917 * 3 The February Revolution * 4 The April Theses * 5 The October Revolution * 6 Forming a government * 6.1 Establishing the Cheka * 6.2 Failed assassinations * 6.3 Red Terror * 6.4 Civil War * 6.5 1920-22 * 7 Retirement and death * 7.1 Funeral * 8 Politics and world revolution * 8.1 Stance on antisemitism * 8.2 Writings

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin was the Bolshevik leader. He was a clever thinker and a practical man; he knew how to take advantage of events. When Lenin arrived in Russia, he issued a document called the April theses, promising ‘peace, bread, land and freedom’. He called for an end to the ‘Capitalist’ war, and demanded that power should be given to the soviets