Since its adoption by the Soviet Union in 1947, the AK-47 has been seen in every conflict around the world. The weapon was used by all communist countries and played a dramatic role in the spread of communism. The weapon's inventor Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 191...

"The support given by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support a rope gives a hanged man." These were words once uttered from the mouth of the Soviet Union's most ambitious and successful ruler, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. Khrushchev was a man that took over po...

Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people unde...

Joseph Stalin or Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born December 21, 1879. He was born in Gori, a village in Transcaucasian Georgia, a province of the Russian Empire within the Caucasus mountains. Stalin was the only of four children to survive infancy. Stalin's father was named Vi...

Stalin: The Politics of Terror In the twentieth century, when thinking of a dictatorship, the name of Joseph Stalin has become synonymous with this term. There has been no other ruler that has used such ruthless and has had the ability to triumph and maintain power against all odds. From his r...

"...That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be, Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved..." It was that spe...

Siege of Berlin By Christmas 1944, Berlin was in ruins, and still being bombed around the clock. The Nazis still talked about wonder weapons and the Führer's genius turning the tables, but in the city canny and cynical Berliners made grim jokes about giving each other coffins as C...

Joseph Stalin When most people see or hear the name Joseph Stalin, they most commonly associate it with a violent and ruthless political leader of the Soviet Union who managed to send more Russians to their deaths than Hitler did Jews. Aside from this fact, most individuals know very little about...

The government, whether we think about it or not, plays a very significant role in all of our lives regardless of our ethnic background. Though there are many differing forms of government, they affect our lives in the same way. Changes in how the government works slowly begin to effect how we car...

a man and his army A Research paper by Kyle Ramirez for Mr. C's 2nd period class Josef Stalin and the KGB were huge influences on the Russian Revolution. The KGB, at the hands of Josef Stalin caused great damage, spread lies and used threats to p...

"Stalin's character was the main reason for his rise to power"Just prior to Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, a 'power struggle' for authority over communist Russia came between the leaders of the Bolshevik regime, because there was no logical successor to Lenin. The members of the 'Politburo', who w...

Joseph Stalin has had a great effect on Russia. From his early life in the Georgian seminary we will see why he entered the seminary, and how this contributed to his activities and how his life progresses through the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, to when he was dictator. When he was a full rev...

Stalin (1879-1953) Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, in the village of Gori, Georgia. He was born to Vissarion and Yekaterina Dzhugashvili. His father Vissarion, was an unsuccessful cobbler who drank heavily and beat him savagely. When Iosif was 7, he caught smallpox...

Although many of his ideas did not bring the expected results, Nikita Khrushchev policies of de-Stalinization were politically wise. He went against many of Stalin\'s tyrannical policies and gave the people a much greater sense of freedom. In the process known as \"de-Stalinization\", legal proced...

'How did collectivism and industrialisation affect the lives of the people in the Soviet Union during the 1930's?' Stalin's approach 'socialism in one country', created a great need for developing the industrial and military might of the Soviet Union. However h...

LENIN A New Biography Dmitri Volkogonov, a former General in the Soviet army, was given unprecedented access to the clandestine Soviet archives during Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's rule, by Boris Yeltsin. In 1994, Volkogonov wrote a revealing book entitled, LENIN A New Biography, which rocked the Len...

THE BEGGININGS OF THE COLD WAR The Cold War is not just one single war taking place in one area, but a large conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union (USSR) and its allies. In this report, I am going to tell you about the happenings of the Cold War between the pe...

Stalin and Industrialization in the 1930's For many countries in Europe during the early nineteen hundreds, industrialization had already left its mark and was considered widespread. Other countries were several steps behind such industrial powers as Great Britain. Their economies still dep...

Essay Question:Examine the degree in which there was a period of economic, social and political consolidation following the critical revolutionary period.During the period of 1921-1928 in Russia, following the critical revolutionary period, there was a large degree of economic, social and political ...

A villain is known as a scoundrel or a wicked person. These words describe the dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin very precisely. Both men were powerful during their rule, but both also caused immense destruction to their countries. Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He turned Germany...

There are different interpretations of 'how and why Stalin was able to gain power', either concentrating on his own actions and abilities, or the situation at the time and the failure of his opponents. It would appear that the success of Stalin was due to both his own strengths and actions in the po...

The Truman Doctrine's Impact in Cold War StrategyBy the middle of the twentieth century's fifth decade, the world had been jolted by two catastrophic wars; a seven- year economic disaster and the recognition that weapons of mass destruction existed. Where blood had been spilled through hand to hand...

Many people associate the 1920's in Russia as a preparation for Stalin, and the period of time after 1953 as a long recovery from his dictatorship. People who were anti-revolution pointed to the horror and fatality under Stalin as justification for their position on the issue of the revolution. On t...

The Soviet-German War is the most brutal episode of the most vicious war that mankind has ever seen (Clark 1). During the "Great Patriotic War", as Joseph Stalin coins it, the Soviet Union emerges through pure tenacity as one of the world's great superpowers. Although Stalin and the USSR emerge vi...

On June 26, 1948 the largest airlift began as the American and British forces began theBerlin Airlift. To understand how the airlift came to be, we have to look all the way backto the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference began in February 1945 in which the threesuperpowers, America, Russia and Bri...