28. Summary and Conclusion : Stalin and German Communism A Study in the Origins of the State PartyFischer, Ruth
and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei...
The Soviets, on the other hand, were determined to maintain control of eastern Europe in order to safeguard against any possible renewed threat from Germany, and they were intent on spreading communism worldwide, largely for ideological reasons. The Cold War had solidified by 1947–48, when U....
Spanish Civil War (1936–39), military revolt by Nationalist rebels, supported by conservative elements within the country, against the Republican government of Spain. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody ci
"Red Chapters: Turning Points in the History of Communism" A Rebel with a Cause (TV Episode 1999) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...
The legacy of the war would include the spread of communism from the Soviet Union into eastern Europe as well as its eventual triumph in China, and the global shift in power from Europe to two rival superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union–that would soon face off against each...
Lindsay explains that Lenin's strategy borrows heavily from the failed Paris Commune, which Marx and Engels regarded as the best attempt at communism up to that time. Lenin envisioned a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that would operate as a totalitarian state to build socialism, transform socie...
a story in which an ambitious American had to use the tools of Capitalism to topple Communism sounds like an easy sell, and there’s probably a great documentary to be made on this subject. But breaking it out into a drama or thriller requires a different set of rules, and, despite ...
case — but not in Hoover's mind. The fight against domestic communism in the years after World War II provided an ideal occasion for him to fan the Red Scare and work with the unsavory Joe McCarthy. Two of the reasons Hoover hated beatniks and hippies were their haircuts and shoe...
How capitalist society created a system of oppression that fostered the growth of black communismA. Sunmade