Joseph Stalin came to power in 1922 and went on to become the Soviet Union's most famous dictator. Under his regime, political dissent was ruthlessly squashed. Stalin organized purges of his political opponents, often through a specially created secret police organization....
Lenin died shortly after the civil war ended but the "dictatorship of the proletariat" led by his successor Joseph Stalin would pursue brutal ethnic and ideological purges as well as forced agricultural collectivization. Tens of millions died during Stalin's rule from 1922 to 1953 on top of the...
The latvian purges of 1959: A revision study Instead, as will be demonstrated, the national communists were purged by the Stalinist old guard and Russian military in Latvia, despite Khrushchev's ... W Prigge - 《Journal of Baltic Studies》 被引量: 5发表: 2004年 No Asylum: State ...
Stalin’s right-hand man and the head of the NKVD,Lavrenty Beria, had only one son. Sergo carved himself a brilliant career as a military engineer. Sergo Beria Archive photo At the very beginning of WW2, the then 20-year-old young man took an accelerated three-month course at the NK...
While visiting the Soviet Bloc to buy scrap iron, the main character, an Englishman, had been swept up in one of the purges by which Stalin populated the gulag with slave laborers. His grim experiences in a mine far below the earth’s surface are balanced by and interwoven with moments in...
“…as long as human beings will go on shedding the blood of animals, there will never be any peace. There is only one little step from killing animals to creating gas chambers a la Hitler and concentration camps a la Stalin . . . all such deeds are done in the name of ‘social jus...
regime ineastern Europe. Now restored as a museumknown as Bunk’Art 2, the underground labyrinth was completed only in 1986—a yearafter the death of Enver Hoxha, who became Albania’s dictator in 1944, modellinghimself on Josef Stalin ...
of apologies that participants rushed to issue prompted heated debates online, where some Russians compared them to events during the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, during which many resorted to repenting for deeds real or imaginary in order to try and protect their lives amid mass purges....
their promise seemed limitless. Grown by research scientists and physicians in France, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere to target specific bacteria, they cured cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague, and other deadly infectious diseases. But after Stalin’s brutal purges and the rise of antibiotics, phag...
Explain Stalin's purges. What is the difference between a historical and a postcolonial view of 'Rip Van Winkle'? Compare and contrast Lenin's 1919 Speech and Old Major's speech in Chapter 1 of ''Animal Farm''. What is the difference between nobility and virtue? Describe the French ...