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    afterwards. The second scope of this investigation will assess the industrialization before and after Stalin’s overtaking. The method that will be used to conduct this investigation is websites, books based off the history of the twentieth-century in Russia that looks into the political, social, and economic success and failures. Section B: Summary of Evidence SCOPE: Job opportunities before and after Stalin’s Five Year Plan Before In 1914 peasant farmers grew food for themselves, the gov would take

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    Victor Zalsavsky was born on September 26, 1937 in what was Leningrad, Russia at the time, now being St. Petersburg. His occupation was a Professor of Political Sociology Theorist and taught political sociology at various institutions throughout his long academic career. Some of those institutions included LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli), Leningrad State University, Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John 's, Canada, University of California at Berkeley

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    one of the most important service that makes this hotel unique and competitor. b) Developing areas in Russian tourism industry Radisson Royal Hotel mainly attracts business and leisure tourists. Unfortunately hotel may lose some of customers because Russia possesses good conditions for recreational and business tourism development. For instance 20 new regions such as the Krasnodar Territory, the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Novosibirsk Region ets. are developing for business tourism (Strategy Partners

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    A week or so ago I read a writing prompt which suggested writing a biography of a character whose life starts relatively normally but which gets more unlikely as their life progresses. I couldn 't find the original prompt and so I am posting it here Born in 1911, Robert Falchion grew up through the shadow of the Great War. He attended Juningberry High before studying electrical engineering at Manchester polytechnic, graduating in 1931. He married his high-school sweetheart, Frida, in 1932, and in

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    INTRODUCTION: George Orwell is famous for writing satires on totalitarianism and he has written it by being objective and truthful. His attempts in uniting art and politics together in his writings was also very successful, he excelled in political journalism and he has raised the prevailing issues and oppression of the power hungry leaders very effectively in his novel Animal Farm. He was one of those writers which were against fascism and communism. The parallels between novel’s events and the

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    the Bolshevik success in the period 1917-1924. According to A.J Koutsoukis , 'his contributions in the years 1917 to 1924 had been second, if not equal to that of Lenin himself. Trotsky played a significant role in establishing Bolshevik control in Russia. He was also very instrumental and one of the reasons for the Red Army winning the civil war. Trotsky was regarded by his supporters as the saviour for his country for his efforts in organising the Red Army during the Civil War. According to historian

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    The Bolshevik rule revolutionized reproductive rights by becoming the first country in the world to legalize abortion in 1920. Less a proclamation of women’s right to control their own body than a health measure in order to reduce mortality due to illegal abortions, this policy was revolutionary. Not only was abortion legal but often free. A shortage in raw material, here rubber, explained why condoms and diaphragms were inaccessible to most women: “Condoms and diaphragms […] were almost impossible

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    the similarities of dictatorial nationalism that were present in the social conditions in the pre-WWII era in Germany and the Soviet Union. The primary focus of Shelia Fitzpatrick’s, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, provides a historical account of Stalin’s dictatorial regime during the 1930s. Stalin’s governing practices during the 1930s marked a trend away from the collective ideology of communist practices under Lenin, which Fitzpatrick defines

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    For his role in leading the Soviet Union through WWII, one of the worst crises that the country has ever faced, Joseph Stalin is remembered as a leader who held his nation together. Stalin however, is also responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet Union citizens, ranging in ethnicity from Polish to Russian to Ukrainian. Abuses of power such as the Great Famine of 1932-1933 resulted in the deaths of 7-8 million people, due to Stalin implementing policies of collectivism that fitted his view

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    Stalin is recognised as one of the most influential men to have ever lead Russia, and he did so through the largest war the world has ever faced, World War II, and through the beginning of one of the most tense periods of modern history, the Cold War. It is easy however, to get lost in the legacy Stalin left behind, and forget about the events leading up to his total control over the communist regime of the 20th century Russia. During his reign as the near absolute ruler of the Soviet Union, Stalin

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