Differing Views of Stalin
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A 5 page review and critique of three articles discussing Josef Stalin: Nove's Was Stalin Really Necessary?, Khrushchev's De-Stalinization Speech, and Toistoya's In Cannibalistic Times. Nove wanders around and concludes that Stalin epitomized the wishes of the Party, but fails to address the fact that Stalin massacred most of the leading Party members when they disagreed with him; Khrushchev makes solid, valid observations on Stalin, but then follows them with saying that Lenin was not such a bad guy, after all. His support of Lenin weakens his stance on Stalin. Toistoya reports on the publication of Conquest's book on Stalin. It was published in the former USSR in 1990, but most reading thinkers had already read it when it was smuggled into the country 20 years earlier. No bibliography.
Filename: Stalin.DOC

Lenin and Stalin -- Policies and Practices
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A 15 page paper on the policies and practices of these two Russian dictators. The writer parallels Lenin and Stalin and describes their impact on the Russian people. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: Bolshev2.wps

Totalitarianism & Joseph Stalin
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This 10 page paper discusses totalitarianism, in general, and how Stalin's regime of terror and complete control exemplifies it. More than Hitler or Mussolini, Stalin represents totalitarianism at its worst. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Stalinto.wps

From Stalin to Gorbachev
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A 10 page paper which addresses how Gorbachev essentially destroyed everything Stalin had worked for. While gorbachev was successfu lin many changes, many of which included changes that were necessary in relationship to altering Stalin’s creations, Gorbachev did not succeed in doing what he truly wnated to, which was to restructure socialism and enable it to move in a more positive direction. He was successful in bringing the world more peace and stability, and he was certianly successful in changing Russia forever, but he failed in restructuring Stalin’s implementations into a system that would owrk more effeciently. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: RAgorby.wps

Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at Noon'
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A six page paper looking at Arthur Koestler's novel set during the period of Russia's Great Terror in the late 1930s. The paper shows that the most long-lasting legacy of Stalin's purges was the loss of the idealism that characterized early Communism. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: KBkoest.wps

Collectivism and Industrialisation in the Soviet Union 1928 – 1933;
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This 16 page paper considers Stalin and his policies of collectivism in agriculture and industrialisation in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1933. The social aspect which led to this era and making it possible are considered, along with the contradictory role of the Red Army, and the famine of 1933. The paper also includes the ways in which the peasants resisted and the consequences of that resistance and the reasons for the world outside of the Soviet Union to be so completely unaware of the real internal situation. The bibliography cites 15 sources, three of which are primary media sources from the era of Stalin and this paper.
Filename: TEsoviet.rtf

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