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Josef Stalin: The Man and the Ideology, 2006.
This paper focuses on the leadership and political career of Joseph Stalin as well as the general era of Stalinism, a period of Russian history that is characterized by authoritarian rule through constant vigilance and fear.
1,443 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The writer of this paper explores the political and military accomplishments of Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin. This paper describes Stalin as an object of admiration, yet also as an oppressor who ruled with an iron fist, utterly successful in spreading and infusing his ideology. Stalin infiltrated every level of a society that could do nothing to protest, nothing to free itself from the tightening, unyielding control that was present in every aspect of Soviet life. This paper delves into the implementation of Stalin's five-year plan for economic development in which the Russian leader adopted the policy views of his former ousted rival Trotsky. His rewriting of historical events marked Stalin as the faithful disciple of Lenin, bringing the ideals of socialism into being with the success of the October Revolution. The writer ponders Stalin's astute political career while describing the leader's ability to inflict torture on his enemies while at the same time filling the minds and hearts of the Soviet people resulting in his inevitable rise to power.
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"Soviet citizens had various reasons to buy into Stalin's ideology and support his rise to power. One reason was self-interest, as those who opposed him, along with their friends and associates, were likely to be awakened in the dead of night by a knock on the door, which meant arrest, imprisonment, and many times, execution. From the time of the murder of Sergei Kirov, first secretary of the party in Leningrad, in 1934, to the culmination of the Great Purges, with the show trial of the late 1930's in Moscow, Stalin promoted an attitude of vigilance and suspicion of one's own neighbors. This led to the denunciation of thousands of citizens, many of whom were loyal supporters of Stalin and the party. It was the unleashing of this paranoia, spreading uncontrollably throughout Soviet society, which fed the purges - the cold fear felt by the citizens who turned in their friends and family, and by NKVD officials, who would act on any and every accusation to avoid being accused of lack of vigilance themselves."
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Josef Stalin and the Birth of Soviet Russia, 2002.
A personal account of the rise of Josef Stalin and the effects on the Polish people through a first-hand, personal interview of a gulag survivor.
5,000 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 126.95
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A detailed paper that outlines the history, rise, fall and death of Josef Stalin in Soviet Russia. It contains the first-hand account of capture and imprisonment in a gulag by the author's grandfather, a Polish citizen at the time.
Paper Outline:
The Man
The Ascendance
The Terror
The War
The End
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"Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia; a small agricultural town situated about one hundred miles east of the Black Sea. Iosif was the son of an alcoholic cobbler and a pious peasant woman. He grew up with no siblings, because the families' first three children had died shortly after birth. Consequently, young Iosif was treasured by his mother who made great sacrifices throughout her life for him. An extremely hard-working woman, Yekaterina Djugashvili worked as a domestic servant to augment her husband's meager earnings. However, even the parents' combined incomes were not enough to keep the small family above the poverty line."
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Josef Stalin and the Great Purges, 2002.
Josef Stalin planned and supervised the great man-made disaster of the 20th century, the terror and purges of the 1930s in the Soviet Union where over 10 million Soviet citizens were destroyed.
1,790 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This essay examines and analyzes the greatest tragedy of 20th century Russia: the show trials, purges, and terror of the 1930s. The essay asks the following question: How did the destruction of over 10 million innocent citizens by their own countrymen ever happen? Recent research proves the Stalin was the mastermind of this insane ?witch-hunt,? but Stalin was not insane: he had clear and practical motivations behind the slaughter. As unjustified as they are, they do exist and are the focus of discussion and analysis in this paper.
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"The Great Purges of the Soviet Union began in 1934 with Kirov?s assassination and ended in late 1938. To this day, they remain ?the greatest riddle of Stalin?s reign.? (Radzinsky 319). This self-inflicted mass murder and ?witch-hunt? consumed at least 8 million victims, people from all walks of society who were either executed or sent to labor camps where the survival rate was less than ten percent. Beginning with the show trials of old Bolsheviks, the purges moved on through the ranks of industrial managers, military leaders, scientists, artists, cultural figures, and finally well into the mass of common people, thus terrorizing the entire country. The arrests and killings eventually started to paralyze the Soviet Union and were soon in no one?s self-interest; they began to drain the USSR physically and economically. Engineers and managers were killed, slowing the economy. So many Red Army officers were killed that the Soviets were largely unprepared for World War II (Hochschild 96). By the end of 1938, the country was no longer ruled by the Party, nor even by Stalin. It was ruled by fear (Radzinsky 356). Only then did Stalin relax the purges and order the execution of the leader of the NKVD, Yezhov."
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Josef Stalin and World War Two, 2002.
An examination of Stalin?s actions and the motivations behind them in World War II.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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It clearly can be confusing to evaluate Josef Stalin?s actions and his role in the events of World War II. There are, nonetheless, some well-documented facts about Stalin?s behavior in the wartime period. This essay presents those facts and analyzes why Stalin chose these behaviors and what motivated him. Stalin role and conduct included: heavy personal involvement in the operations of the war, continual thoughts of self-preservation and power, humiliation and intimidation of his own people, and his ability to think several moves ahead in postwar policy goals. Why he did these things is traced to his life before World War II.
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"In discussing Stalin?s role, motivations, and behavior during World War II, the historian is presented with a problem that must be overcome before beginning. He must decide which accounts of Stalin?s role and behavior are most accurate and then, and only then, proceed with the analysis of the motivations and character traits that caused them. There are two schools of thought about Stalin in World War II. The first is exemplified by many traditional historians, who believe that in the 1930s Stalin was focused solely on the internal health of the Soviet Union and had no plans for aggressive Bolshevik expansion. His mistrust of the West in dealing with Hitler?s aggression led him to make a defensive alliance with Germany to stop them before they advanced in his direction. In this treaty, Stalin agreed to let Hitler move some steps to the east in return for his allowing Stalin to move Soviet borders to the west; a division of Eastern Europe. As a result, Stalin correctly foresaw that Hitler would fall into conflict with the Western powers and not the USSR. Stalin thereby gained both the time and space he desperately needed for the build-up of his own defenses. This was proceeding when Hitler, buoyed by his quick successes in Western Europe, launched a surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June, 1941. This invasion caught Stalin totally by surprise; he had ignored warnings from many credible sources and refused to question his own assumptions about Hitler. Stalin felt great remorse over his strategic blunder, spent some time in seclusion and stunned inaction, and then finally rose to the challenge. In the coming four years he personally rallied the Soviet Union, its people and soldiers, into a great victory over fascism, one that could not have been possible without the sacrifices and patriotism Stalin inspired in the Soviet citizens. After the war, Stalin felt that the amount of death and suffering his people had endured in the war legitimized his creation of Communist buffer states in Eastern Europe."
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Ideology and Identity: An Example of Ideology-In-Action, 2002.
This paper explicates the intricate relationship that ideology has with identity, presenting an example.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 97.95
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Ideology is both a belief and a practice. How we identify ourselves in society is intimately related to dominant ideologies. This paper will define "ideology" and it's necessary associate term, "hegemony." An outline of an example for making an argument about the relations between the ideology (the State) and identity in society will be addressed. A brief discussion of the impacts such State-based ideological practices have on social identities will be looked at.
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Stalin, 2002.
This paper looks at the early influences, people and events that molded Josef Stalin into the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union.
3,420 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This essay details and analyzes the influences in Josef Stalin?s life up to 1927. The author examines how Stalin was not an intellectual man, but one who learned from the ideas of others and twisted them to serve his own ambitions. The paper discusses those experiences and people that influenced Stalin to become so especially talented at his kind of dictatorship. They include influences from his childhood through his friendship with Lenin. This paper explains how the monster of a man came to be.
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"In the year 1927, the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Josef Stalin assumed complete control over the Soviet Union and its people. He had calmly driven all of Lenin?s henchmen out of the party, outlawed dissent and laid the foundation for future purges, and made himself the Supreme Leader, his word instantly made flesh in the lesser leaders. Stalin?s character and behavior patterns were to show great consistency in the coming twenty-five years."
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Stalin and Hitler, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the influence of childhood on Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler.
1,977 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines how history has recorded the actions Hitler and Stalin took once they were in office. Both men were ruthless and dealt with those who opposed them harshly. Stalin had many, many people executed because he believed they threatened him in some way, and Hitler was responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews and other people he deemed undesirable. It looks at how their childhoods contributed to the men they became and the actions these men took to accomplish their rise to power.
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Childhood
Hitler?s Early Life
Stalin?s Early Life
Early Life Comparisons
Hitler?s Rise to Power
Stalin's Rise to Power
Comparisons
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"The author Robert C. Tucker argues that as Stalin rose in power he developed a rich fantasy life in which he was the avenger for those wronged by those opposed to him. In this kind of convoluted thinking, the existence of people who opposed him only served to make himself feel more self-important (Tucker, p. 6). Fantasy began to become reality, however, when Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922, Stalin formed a triumverate, or troika, to rule the Party, and began arguing that modernization was the key to Russia?s greatness and that unless the country moved as rapidly as possible to modernize, they were threatened by outside forces as well as forces within the country. Stalin led this modernization (Stalcup, p. 45). Meanwhile, as part of a three-man leadership team, he was able to take on the one real threat to his leadership. He had Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia and eventually assassinated."
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Stalin, 2007.
A discussion of the personality traits that allowed Josef Stalin to take power in Russia.
2,001 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses the quality of charisma in a leader, using Josef Stalin as an example. The paper describes Stalin's rise to power, focusing on the political situation in Russia at the time, and how Stalin used it to his advantage. The author notes that the discontent of the people created fertile ground for Stalin's ideas to gain popularity. The paper weaves the concepts of charisma, changes in leadership and Stalin's rule throughout the paper, showing that despite the changes Stalin claimed to be making, the life style of the masses ultimately changed very little, since their role in society remained the same.
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"When Stalin came to power in 1924 the situation in Russia was unstable on both the economical and political side. The country had experimented a long tsarist period under the rule of an absolute leader that had total control over the country and its citizens. The prolonged domination of the czar that denied people's freedom had brought a wave of discontent among the working class, formed mainly by peasants."
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Stalin and Communism, 2005.
An examination of the life of Josef Stalin and his reign of the Communist Party (1928 to 1953).
5,138 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 128.95
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This paper attempts to chart the changes undergone by the Communist Party during the reign of Josef Stalin. It begins by looking at the background on one of the most notorious mass murderers in history from his birth as Ioseb Jughasvili on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia. It examines his education, his introduction to socialism and his work with the political underground in the Caucasas. It also discusses the background to the Communist party, Stalin's involvement in the Party Committee and how he ruthlessly took over as chair after Lenin's death. It also examines the highlights of Stalin's reign from his 5-year plans to his purges against senior members of the Party and his participation in World War II.
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"On December 1, 1934, Kirov was walking along a corridor in the Smolny Institute, when a young man pulled a revolver and shot him. He died almost instantly. A few hours later, Stalin drafted the decree that came to be known as the "Law of 1 December". It was approved by the Politburo two days later and ordered that the period of questioning terrorist suspects be reduced to ten days, allowed suspects to be tried without legal respresentation and permitted executions to carried out immediately. It has always been assumed that Stalin initiated the purges as a response to opposition to him within the party. Recent works cast doubt about Stalin's involvement, however."
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Churchill and Stalin, 2002.
A literary review of the impact of the wartime relationship between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 22 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper examines and analyzes Winston Churchill's wartime relationship with Josef Stalin, and discusses how the relationship influenced policy in the Second World War. The paper uses primary and secondary sources, journal articles, documents, and contemporary newspapers as sources.
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Stalin's Rise to Power, 2006.
This paper examines Josef Stalin's rise to power, while focusing on the years 1921-1932.
2,228 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper analyzes the life and accomplishments of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. The writer of this paper examines Stalin's role as the leader responsible for the conversion of communism in the Soviet Union from an egalitarian revolutionary movement into that of an authoritative bureaucratic governmental system, while focusing on his political and military career between 1921-1932. Stalin began his political career by joining the Social Democratic Party of Georgia in 1901. This well-researched paper discusses the views of numerous biographers who have described Stalin as a plodding figure with brutality as his main distinguishing feature. Stalin is considered the man responsible for the deaths of some 20 million people of which more than 14 million died needlessly from hunger. Stalin also deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps more than nine million people. It is estimated that five million of the people sent by Joseph Stalin to the Gulag Archipelago never came back alive. This paper explores Stalin's intellectual strength and cunning which was first noticed upon his appointment as General Secretary of the Communist party in 1922. The rise of Stalin to power was a mix of factors as well as fate. These factors include his character and his relentless quest for power, the revolutionary zeal of Leon Trotsky, the rise of the bureaucrats and the role played by his comrades in power. The writer explains how all these factors impacted on Stalin's leadership style.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Rise of Stalin
Conclusion
References
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"The strength of his intelligence and cunning was to be seen that when he came to become a General Secretary of the Communist party in 1922, he cultivated the bureaucracy and by using his maneuvering and administrative skills ensured that his potential rivals in the party were marginalized and it was this amassing of power by Stalin that made Lenin worry about the role of Stalin and call for his removal that did not take place as Lenin did not live long enough after that to see that Stalin did not utilize this accumulation of strength in the party as the means to get to the top of the existing power system in the Soviet Union. It could be said that fate also played a part in assisting the rise of Stalin to power by removing Lenin from the scene by his death. In the earlier days Lenin was the idol of Stalin and they built up a friendship that was to aid Stalin in his initial rise to power in the Communist Party. Stalin used this platform that was built on his looking on Lenin as an idol and the friendship that started between the two of them as his launching pad to power."
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Chinese Ideology, 2005.
This paper discusses the ideology of China in transition.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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The paper presents the question of what ideology will best suit China's leaders and citizens in a system in transition that will facilitate China's development in a stable manner. The paper explains that this is a complex question given that the ideology that may best suit China's leaders is not necessarily the same as the one that will best suit its people. This essay thus attempts to answer the question by describing what would be the best ideology for China for the immediate future and the probable ideology given China's current history.
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Marriage Ideology, 2007.
An analysis of 19th century marriage ideology, as seen in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary."
2,273 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper discusses the drama of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." The paper views the two works in tandem in order to paint a more complete picture of the failures inherent in 19th century marriage ideology. The paper suggests that, viewed individually, the works do not provide as clear a picture of this ideology.
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"Unlike Torvald, Charles approves of and facilitates his wife's indulgences because he derives pleasure from them and lacks Torvald's frugal and controlling character. Yet the division between the worlds of men and women in Madame Bovary still lays the grounds for an unhappy and uncommunicative marriage, just as it does in "A Doll's House." Because of Charles' lack of understanding of what such frivolities mean to Emma--they symbolize her longing for a romantic, sensual life that will take her away from him--a rift between husband and wife is created that is just as profound and damaging as Torvald's incomprehension of how his isolation of Nora from the real world will divide the two of them."
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The Ideology of Familialism, 2006.
A look at the forces and institutions that have helped shape the ideology of familialism in Canadian society.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This essay explores how the ideology of familialism in Canada has been reinforced by institutions outside of the families themselves. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of the mass media as an agent of socialization in this process. The paper argues this ideology of familialism has fostered a model of the family that reinforces patriarchal power and is discriminatory towards "deviant" concepts of the family as in cases of single-parent families and families of colour.
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"The concept of family is a site of social conflict in North American in the 21st century, with a range of social actors, institutions and ideologies attempting to revise or reinforce how the family is conceptualized with North American culture. From the perspective of Canada, this is a particularly complex issue as domestic debate with regard to the family (e.g., the issue of gay marriage) is defined not only by Canadians but also by the representation of the family in the American dominated mass media. Within this context, this essay will explore how the ideology of familialism has been reinforced by institutions outside of the families themselves."
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My Ideology, 2008.
Looks at the author's own ideology called conservative liberal or a liberal conservative.
1,910 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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In this paper, the author relates that he adheres to the ideology of conservative liberalism to the exclusion of socialism, communism, anarchism, fascism or Nazism. The author further relates his belief that this ideology combines the openness and willingness to experiment of liberalism and the caution of classical conservatism. In addition, the author explains that he bases this selection on his view of human nature. The author then concludes that, almost by elimination, he chooses liberalism, thus favoring a government in which the will of the government can be expressed through change.
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"This concept of liberty helps to shape the corresponding concept of security. The security that the state must offer is twofold. First, it must protect the whole of society from external invasion. We have managed to do this successfully in the repulse of the attack of the Plu-Turns, and we must retain a government of sufficient strength and foresight to repel any future invasion. At the same time, the government must secure the individuals in our society from internal oppression. In our recovery, we will undoubtedly go through periods of severe economic dislocation."
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