need info from The Soviet Era, about 1920s or 1930s. Stalin's real name was Josh Ezugashvili. Question: How did Stalin use propaganda and terror to achieve his goals?
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Stalin exercised complete control in all areas of his country, including all the media, the politburo, industry, research areas and even the artistic/cultural sphere.\nThrough propaganda, Stalin's control of all the media ensured that only good news (most of the time deliberate lies or gross exaggerations) reached its population, while the bad news, famines, bad results caused by his collectivization plans, etc., never reached the ears of the public except perhaps in the form of isolated rumours. He also controled the education system, and in all schools the children were taught to love him as "the father of the country", and a large personality cult was centered around him. Textbooks were also altered and biased to favour Stalin's rule and his policies.\nThrough terror campaigns, Stalin got rid of all his political enemies... first those inside the Communist Party, like Trotsky, and eventually, he begun to target anyone that showed any hints of independent thinking. Stalin's spies and secret police were omnipresent, and reported anybody that seemed slightly critical of his regime, or just because they were intelectual, and these people were sent to gulags where they faced years of imprisonment and forced labour or sometimes they were just brutally murdered. These people often had to face "faux trials", or "moneky trials" first, where they were accused of being counter-revolutionaries or traitors under false pretenses, to give some legitimacy to their dissapearances.\n\nAlso: For more info, there's always wikipedia. It's very helpful!\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
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I found something for Wang Ming as two separate words-someone's name. The website below has a more complete description, but here is a quote to summarize him," the label given by Mao to Wang as a representative of dogmatism, subjectivism and sectarianism hits the nail on the head. "  Perhaps with this information, you can reread the reference to a computer guru and see if this definition fits.
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It's highly unlikely that you'll get the information you've asked for because opinion polling, statistical analysis and predictive modelling techniques weren't around then.  I'd suggest using the results of the elections after the war as a guide as well as empirical evidence from the time (newsreels, editorials etc.)\n\nOf course Messers Hitler, Stalin and Moussolini didn't really have to bother with 'approval' as they were totalitarian dictators.
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To answer your questions in order:\n\nYes, the Soviet Union (which included Russia) was an ally of the US and the British.  The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also called the Soviet Union.  Russia was a part of the USSR, but wasn't called Russia then), led by Stalin, signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler (leader of Germany).  This was in force until Hitler broke it and invaded the Soviet Union.  Stalin was taken unawares and unprepared, so Hitler did well at first.  Stalin therefore allied with the British and the US to fight the Germans.  The "cold war" didn't start until after WWII During the jostling for control over the states freed from the Nazis. \n\n*****\n\nThe USSR and the Japanese didn't work together.  The war in Europe against Germany) ended sooner than that in Japan (May 8, 1945 for Germany’s surrender and August 15, 1945 for Japan’s) and the USSR was free to declare war on Japan, which it did.  This was one of the reasons that the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.  It wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union forces entered the fighting, who would then stay and have control in that country and region.  \n\nAfter WWII Germany was divided into two halves, appropriately called West and East Germany.  The US, the United Kingdom (the British) and France controlled the West.  The Soviet Union controlled the East.  Germany was two different countries.  The US, UK and France set up a democracy in the West and then left (although the US left troops to guard against an attack from the Soviet Union, and many are still stationed there.  Now the bases are used as staging grounds for operations in the Afghanistan and Iraq).  The country they created was called the Federal Republic of Germany.\n\nThe Soviet Union established a country in the Eastern half, called the German Democratic Republic. This was not democratic though – it was communist.  The Soviet Union had many troops stationed there as well, and had a lot of influence in the Eastern half.  Vladimir Putin, the current President of the Russian Federation, worked in East Germany as a spy when he was part of the KGB (this isn’t a secret – he admits it freely and uses his excellent German in speeches).\n\n*****\nGermany played a very strong role in the War.  They were allied with Japan, but because they had some common enemies in their efforts to expand their territories.  In Europe, the war started when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, claiming to be uniting the Germans who lived there (Austrians speak German and there were a lot of Germans in Czechoslovakia.  The moved there in the centuries that it belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which were all names used at different times to describe the same Empire ruled from the Austrian city of Vienna). At this point there was a lot of nervousness in Europe, as Hitler was using rhetoric such as “Germans need more land to live, which is their birthright.” But the British made a deal with Hitler that they would let him keep those countries if he didn’t go any further.  Hitler agreed, but he invaded Poland anyway, and kept going from there. He took France, Bombed England and wanted to invade, and moved through Eastern Europe.  He also invaded the USSR, as mentioned above.\n\nThe US at this point wasn’t involved.  Hitler made an alliance with the Japanese, who were engaged in their own war of expansion, because both were fighting the British and French (the British had a lot of Colonial holdings in the Pacific, and the French had some, too).  \n\nThe US became involved when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese wanted the US to withdraw from the pacific, but instead the US declared war on the Japanese.  The Japanese and the Germans were allied, so Germany declared war on the US, which then also entered the European war.  It was already helping the UK and the USSR with equipment and logistical support,
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No\n pearl was a set up\n we would have been better off with Hitler than Stalin\n there would not be a middle east problem today.\n Any questions?
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if you read Russian, read here:\nhttp://history.tuad.nsk.ru/Author/Russ/T/TimchenkoJaJu/golgofa/razd1-1.html\n\nIn brief, he was a Tsarist general who took the bolsheviks' side after the revolution (the first general to do that). Played important role during the civil war, was briefly arrested in 1931, but was released the same year.\n\nIn English you might try to search Bonch-Bruevitch or something similar
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The answer to these few questions will help out:\n- When was the US Stock Market Crash?\n- What had Germany just admitted guilt to (think of a big treaty named after a big place and a big event in history that had just happened)?\n- What political party began to take hold in the German government?\n- Who did the Germans stereotype as being responsible for the economic depression?
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Hitler, Stalin, and Mousilini.  Quick!  Call the Batman!
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Kirk Wagner? I know a lot of Nazi leaders, but I've never heard of him. I did searches on Wikipedia and google, but his name doesn't show up. You sure you got the right one?\n\nMaybe you're talking about Julius Schreck, who formed the Stabswache, which was Hitler's personal bodyguard.
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1. Which of the following best demonstrates the difference between the British and Russian views of the progress initiated by the industrialization and modernization of the nineteenth century?\nb. British writers were most concerned with the social changes and problems brought about by the technology itself, but Tolstoy was focused on the spiritual effects of progress.\n\n\n2. Which of the four authors in the "Political Points of View" section (Orwell, Lessing, Chamberlain and Nehru) did NOT observe the British Empire from the standpoint of a colonizer?\nd.Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Better dead than red" entry on the Wikipedia website.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_red\n\n"'Better dead than Red' was an anti-Communist phrase first used during World War II in its original German form 'Lieber tot als rot' and later during the Cold War by the United States. It was coined by Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels in the end phase of the Second World War to motivate the German military and population to fight the Russians to the end."\n\nMore can be found on Wikipedia on their entry on anti-communist.\n"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist\n\n"He [Mikhail Bakunin] loathed the idea of a vanguard party ruling the masses from above, quipping that 'when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."'"
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I've linked several articles below for your review. 1st - Ethnic cleansing, 2nd is an overview on Allied war crimes, 3rd a specific record of the details on the previous posters Katyn massacre. There were significant atrocities committed before (1932-33 era in the Ukraine) and after (Stalin's pogroms) the war and with most focus on the Nuremberg trials a lot of Allied crimes either went un-or-under reported. Best of luck in your research, hope this helps.
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Anyone who has taken any type of Poly Sci class whatsoever should know that Hitler was a FASCIST.  This is on the RIGHT side of the spectrum, NOT the LEFT.  \n\nGet it straight!!! I don't care who you voted for!!\n\nStalin: Evil Communist (LEFT)\nHiter: Evil Fascist (RIGHT)
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For 33 years he was the leader of the Sovier Union.  Stalin's rule was characterized by a cult of personality, a concentration of power, and little concern for the lives of individual people. Stalin battled his opposition through use of a security apparatus that resulted in numerous deaths of Soviet citizens. Many died in the Gulags and in deportations. Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's eventual successor, denounced this and the cult of personality in 1956, initiating the process of "de-Stalinization" which later became part of the Sino-Soviet Split.
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Stalinism is referring to a specific style of government (the Stalin USSR era), whereas Communism is the political ideology behind it. Check out this site: \n\nhttp://www.marxists.org/glossary/index.htm\n\n(wikipedia is also helpful)
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~Worked well for the Third Reich.  They just didn't use it enough.  Neither did Pol Pot.  Joe Stalin made a good run at it though.  Kill for Peace and Justice, I say.  PTL
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about a controlling totalitarian govt??\n\nditch the word "controlling" or u can use the term "ruling"\n\n\ntry to make thr first statement in the "not only - but also" form.\n\nGeorge Orwell’s "1984" is not only about a controlling totalitarian government, but also about one man's....\n\noverthrow an opposing govt..??? why would he want to overthrow a govt not in power??\n\nleader's control "over" a nation "using" fear.\n\norwell's novel is a forewarning (ditch the "is a beckon") as to what "would" happen if an induvidual comes to power and the costs to retain power.\n\n\nthe world is created, in resemblance "to" Russia,during...\n\n\ntoday's society . The "suppression"\n(would be more appropriate)\n of freedom caused misery among the people of Oceania and thus they sought a revolution.\n\n\nPls edit the last para (Big brother.... at any given moment)..makes little sense.\n\nmy idea : \nBig brother hears any sound that Winston makes and any sound louder than a whisper is picked up. And as long as he remained within the range of the metal plate, he could be seen and heard.  \n\n\n\nfinally..\nIn the novel, orwell uses the concept of communism and it's effect on the people.\n\n\n\n\nWell.. those were all the possible suggestions i could give u. Some of my suggestions can be dropped since i have no idea about this passage's context (George Orwell's 1984) .