Red Army Faction

Joseph Stalin was born 18th December 1878 and died on 5th March 1953, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state. Stalin was born in Gori in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire, to Besarion Jughashvili, a Georgian cobbler who owned his own workshop, and Ketevan Geladze, a Georgian who was born a serf

follow any international rules of warfare in regards to Soviet prisoners; they were to be shown no mercy and killed. The Commissar order in regards to Soviet political commissars (Communist political officers) was to separate them from the regular army and kill them. From the Nazi perspective, the Soviet

place November 1942 around the city of Stalingrad. The German sixth Army, fourth Panzer Division, and its supporting allies had been attacking Soviet forces in and around Stalingrad since August 1942. Many historians think Adolf Hitler viewed a win in Stalingrad as a political and symbolic defeat of the Soviets. During a meeting with Joseph Stalin in September 1942, Generals Vasilevsky, and Zhukov noted that the German sixth Army and the fourth Panzer Division flanks were thin and poorly equipped

Stalin is a name everyone probably has heard at some point, most likely in a history class that you have long forgotten now. However people tend to not know that during his time as Premier of the Soviet Union he killed more people than Hitler did. This could have been through his policies or his Five year plans. Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953 when he died. In that 24 year span he killed an estimated 50 million people (Haines) and this doesn 't include the lives lost in WW2

on the front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, first breaking the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Experts at their Blitzkrieg tactic by then, Germany pushed 50 miles into the Soviet Union in the first day. Stalin, left with a weakened Red Army after purging past generals who would have proved critical in this attack, enforced the scorched earth policy, in which his people burnt everything left behind when they retreated; leaving nothing for the Germans. At that time, Hitler anticipated

In August 1942, Hitler's massive Sixth Army marched to the city that was named after Stalin. During the five-month siege, the Russians fought to hold the city and were determined to hold it at any cost. The book Stalingrad shows the roles of soldiers on both the Russian and German side, as well as fighting in inhuman conditions, and some of the experiences from civilians who were trapped in the battlefield. Antony Beevor interviewed some of the survivors and discovered new untold stories and facts

the history of the world. It was a crusade of political tyranny in the Soviet Union that transpired during the late 1930’s. The Terrors implicated a wide spread cleansing of the Communist Party and government officials, control of peasants and the Red Army headship, extensive police over watch, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, and illogical slayings. Opportunely, some good did come from the terrors nonetheless. Two of those goods being Sofia Petrovna and Requiem. Both works allow history

How important were the purges of the 1930s to Stalin’s control of the USSR? The purges that occurred in Russia started in 1934 when Sergei Kirov, a leading politician, was murdered. Using his death as an excuse, Stalin started a wave of terror known as the great purges which led

Ravensbruck was a German concentration camp which was in use from May, 1939-April, 1945. Much like all other concentration camps, it was used to imprison many different types of people who the Germans did not consider part of the “Perfect race”. Ravensbrück was second in size only to the women's camp in Auschwitz. However, the one thing that singled out this concentration camp is that it was for women only. Only women were imprisoned in this concentration camp, and many starved to death, or were

come falling down on him and his regime. Although Operation Barbarossa was considered a complete failure, in many respects the operation was a complete success. The Germans had the upper hand took the Soviets by surprise. The Wehrmacht or the German Army was able to advance through a big portion of the Soviet Union in just a few weeks, were able to capture and wipeout millions of Soviet troops, and take control of a