I need help for HistoryCoursework.Question: 'Stalin stayed in power because of his use of terror.' How far do you agree with this statement?
Josef Stalin was a master at establishing and maintaining control over the Soviet Empire, or at least, he became one. Under his iron-fisted rule, Stalin established a giant network of informers and secret police. In the beginning, when his hold over the country was tenuous, he ordered mass arrests of Ukrainians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Kazakhs and a fictional class of people he created, the Kulaks. Literally hundreds of thousands of people were arrested and deported to Siberia. To house this mass of prisoners (that eventually numbered close to 3 million), an entire system of concentration and labor camps were created, the Gulag. Mortality in these camps was high, and relatively few were ever released. In addition, Stalin forcibly "collectivized" the peasant farms in theUkraine and elsewhere into Soviet collective farms. He arrested and deported thousands of them, and the resulting grain harvests dropped off dramatically. Still he required they fill their quota of grain for export. Mass starvation broke out, killing close to a million Ukrainians. Millions more during his reign were arrested and executed for imaginary crimes against the state. This was usually carried out by the NKVD, his secret state police, and involved tens of thousands of people being shot and buried in mass graves. Some of these graves are still being discovered. This time was called The Great Terror. By the late 1930s, few were remaining to present a challenge to his rule. Few would dare. Then he purged his military of half of his officers, even though they had done nothing wrong. Then he purged his police force and the Communist Party. Essentially, he kept power by murdering all of his potential opposition.
I need help on Stalin?
Born on Decembr 9,1879 as Joseph Vissarnovich Dzhughashlivi General Secretary of the USSR 1922-1953 and eventually took over the increasing power that enabled him to become the defacto leader of the USSR by 1928 After Lenin's death , he defeated Trotsky and had him expelled 1930's he initiated the Great Purge which led to millions of deaths Inaugurated the 5 year plan to replace the New Economic Policy of the 1920's in the guise of collectivization 1932-1934- Millions die of hunger during the famine after Stalin confiscates grain and other foood supplies. The kulaks resist but are soon repressed into submission. 1939 Agreed to a non aggression pact with Nazt Germany followed by a 1941 non aggression pact with Japan. World War 2- Great Patriotic war to the USSR in rhich the USSR took on the main brunt of Germany's forces and eventually defeated them. Took over as satellite and definite political and military presence in Eastern Europe Was part of the Big 3 of Stalin , Churchill and FDR Fought real and alleged opponents by a cult of personality through the use of the NKVD or secret police. Millions are killed due to famine,war ,persecutions and the Gulag. Died on March 5, 1953(Thumbnail sketch only)
JOSEPH STALIN QUESTIONS PLEASE HELP!?
Im going to do a big essay about this man, and i know quite a few things about him. but i cant find the answer to these questions in my book. so please can you help? i will give 10 points. please & thank you. Did anyone oppose or try to prevent his events? anyone within the nation? another nation’s government? What did the opposition do to prevent/stop the event? Who supported or helped to carry out the orders? What did the supporters do to carry out the event? How did technology enable the events to take place? details about the Joseph Stalin?
I really need help on these History questions. Big test these are the only answers I can't find.?
1) Imprisonment without proper trial; forcible relocation of ethnic groups; murder of political opponents 2) Not clear which Peace Conference you mean. 3) Turkey was seen at the time to be spiritual home of Islam, prompting fears that they would call for a "jihad" or holy war from Muslim subjects in French and British ruled territories.
I need help with a project with stalin and trotsky?
It's alright, but you should remove the bit about Stalin not being a "real Russian". Trotsky would never have said this for several reasons: As a Marxist Trotsky was an Internationalist, viewing national differences as a "Bourgeois construct" . He would have known that Georgia was part of the Russian Empire, so Stalin was Russian by passport, but not by ethnicity. Further to this, Trotsky was not Russian either, he was an ethnic Jew from Ukraine. You should concentrate on the real fear that many Bolsheviks had - that a Red Napoleon would emerge through the Red Army, to seize the Revolution for their own ends. Stalin was able to use this fear to belittle Trotsky - and to make other Bolsheviks fear him. You should also focus on the real debate that they had. Trotsky was a Left Communist. He wanted rapid industrialisation of the USSR, and the immediate collectivisation of agriculture, and, importantly, proposed the policy of "permanent revolution" - this policy was an attempt to "export the revolution" to Poland, and, ultimately, to Germany. Stalin was, in the mid 1920s, a Right Communist. He wanted to maintain the New Economic Policy to help build up the Soviet Economy. He favoured the gradual shift towards collective agriculture and preferred to build "socialism in one country" rather than Trotsky's proposed "permanent revolution" -
I need US history help?
Ok you guys, I have some question from hisotry that I really need help with, and I wasn't there in school when the teacher taught this and no I don't have notes at the moment. Can you guys please help? I'd really appreciate it. --------------- Complete the cause-and-effect diagram with the specific U.S. actions made in response to the Soviet actions listed. Use the following terms and names in filling out the diagram: Containment, Truman Doctrine, Berlin airlift, NATO ---------------- Cause: Soviet Action Soviet Leader Josephine Stalin refused free elections in Eastern Europe and set up satellite nations. Effect: U.S. Action??? Effect: U.S. Action??? Cause: Soviet Action Soviets blockaded Berlin fior almost a year. Effect: U.S. Action??? Effect: U.S. Action??? --------------- Explain the significance of each of the following terms: Cold War, Marshall Plan
I need help with Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini?
They have been ruthlessly pushed, lacking in any morality, have been loners, and. psychotic. all of them murdered people who they as quickly as shared a friendship with. Hitler and Mussolini have been supposedly great audio equipment, Stalin prevented talking, Lenin became the speaker. yet all 3 did no longer take grievance ok in any respect and while they fell into capacity their vindictiveness became appalling and brutal.
I really need help on these history questions? can someone help me?
1) Truman offered Marshall Aid to help rebuild the shattered economies of Europe. He wanted economically strong trading partners who could buy American goods. This aid came with strings attached: to be accepted for Marshall Aid, countries had to hold free and fair elections. Truman offered to scrap the British and American "Bizonia" in West Germany in order to gain Soviet support. 2) Stalin wanted Germany weakened and unable to threaten the USSR in the foreseeable future. He did not want Germany to receive Marshall Aid. Also he rejected the economic scrutiny that would come with Marshall Aid, and the idea that Marshall Aid would, in effect, mean that American controlled Europe's economic growth. 3) A Satellite nation was one of the countries liberated by the Soviets that had a communist government imposed on it by the Soviet Union. There were six of them: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. The Soviets argued that the imposition of capitalist democracies in the countries liberated by the Anglo-American armies were also satellite countries.
HELP WITH JOSEPH STALIN FOR HISTORY PAPER DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!?
He was a fond believer in Communism. He was the dictator of the Soviet Union (aka, Russia). He wanted to industrialize Russia. He made the Five-year Plan, which promised to increase use of electricity and increase manufacture of products (such as iron, coal, exports, stuff like that). He was in power right before and during World War II. (1925-1945 ish). yuuup For more, and more detailed, just try Wikipedia or Google or something
Why did Stalin help the U.S fight Hitler and the nazis?
Actually one might reverse the question and say since the Soviet Union formed a pact with the Nazis in 1939 to dismember Poland, and much of Europe to start World War II, why did the United States so eagerly give Stalin a blank check and such false favorable propaganda? In 1939 the Soviet Union and Germany signed a nonagression pact, to conquer and divide the spoils of Europe. But when Hitler illogically turned on the Soviets in 1941 the United States government in power turned a deaf ear to Stalin's recent foreign aggression, and also tried to cover up the fact that within his country his mass slaughters and prison camps almost matched Hitler's. Roosevelt was naive. Stalin was a kind of brutal, homicidal leopard, who was never going to change his spots. We could have allied with him more realistically. We did not cause in any manner the Soviet-German split. Hitler wrote in "My Struggle" that the Soviets were subhumanes, who should be exterminated. Stalin should have been wary of that fact when making the treaty with Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to warn Stalin of Germany's impending June 1941 invasioin of the Soviets, but was ignored. The Soviets in fighting in Berlin in 1945 were attacking, as in 1939 on self interest. The Allies, mainly the U.S., should have been more pragmatic, as well.