Political Science Essays

In 1985, Mikhail Geographer, a modern political leader, emphasized the importance of technocratic knowledge to solve the Soviet economy’s stagnation. He began implementing measures for increased transparency, known as glasnost, and also initiated plans for perestroika during that same year. According to Boris Yelling (1931-2007), the economic reform undertaken in the Soviet Union during the […]

The Best Option The current American economic landscape has been less than perfect for several years. The stock market has seen substantial losses, the banking industry has been dealt crippling blows, and the government has financially bailed out many major corporations out of taxpayer monies and the economy as a whole is suffering. From this, […]

Stalin totally hanged the country. When he gained power the economy was still based on agriculture and the majority of people lived in the countryside; when he died, the country was a global superpower, with a huge heavy industry sector and the majority of the people lived in cites. He achieved these through two policies; […]

Before 1950, the Japanese had taken Vietnam from French rule, and subsequently the Vietnamese started to form resistance groups in southern China. They practiced guerilla tactics and called themselves the Vietminh, and were led by Ho Chi Minh, a leading Vietnamese Communist. Their main objective was essentially nationalist, to achieve independence. They soon became Communist […]

There have been a number of issues raised by this essay prompt, which have forced me to consider the effect this policy has had on the world and the path it has travelled since 1945.Firstly, we must focus on what the ‘communist containment’ policy is. Essentially this policy was designed, by the US, for curbing […]

The government in China today is communist. It refuses to give the population democratic rights for a variety of reasons based around the history of China over the last several thousand years, China between 1900 and 1949 and concerning the Communist Party itself. However the Communists encourage private enterprise because of what has happened since […]

During the period after the collapse of the Tsarist regime of Nicholas II, and the rise of the Bolshevik party headed by Lenin and then Stalin, Russia underwent serious, complex and far reaching reforms both physically through industrial revolution and economic planning but also as a society, particularly under Stalin.Under Stalin Russian Society underwent a […]

I think that Stalin’s political powerbases were one of the main reasons he emerged as leader of Soviet Russia by the end of 1929. Obviously there were other factors that aided him, such as the alliances he formed, and even his personality. Obviously I don’t think that it was all down to one factor alone […]

From 1950 to 1968, the US’s increased participation in Vietnam was largely motivated by opposing communism on ideological grounds. This led to greater presidential involvement and further entanglement in the conflict due to concerns about America’s reputation being tarnished if they withdrew. The “quagmire theory” played a role in this decision-making process, as did the […]

This article presents some preliminary empirical findings about the impact of the great terror in Leningrad (city and oblast’). The sheer scale of the purges makes a quantitative analysis of their impact viable, even within a very limited time span and within a defined geographical region. Leningrad itself offers an interesting case study because of […]

The Cold War was not acctually a physical war faught between two or more Countries, it was a conflict between Cummunism and Capitalism that was mainly between Russia (Communsits) and The United States of America ( Capitalism).Both had different opinions on how a Country should be run, Russia believing in a Dictatorship whileAmerica believed in […]

Animal Farm, George Orwell’s famous satire of the Russian Revolution, is a protest against the cruelty inherent in totalitarianism. It tells the tale of farm animals who rise up against their human oppressors to establish a society founded on the idea that every creature is created equal. Orwell’s Animal Farm depicts the ephemeral success of […]

Orwell wrote this play to illustrate the Russian revolution. He used the animals to symbolise the main characters in the Russian Revolution. The moral of this fable is that power can corrupt anyone if they are not careful. Animal Farm is used to represent Russia in the time when Stalin was ruling Russia. Orwell represents […]

Economic mismanagement was one of the reasons that led to the GMD’s defeat in the civil war in China. Despite implementing the “Gold Yuan” reform in 1948, inflation and social unrest continued to rise drastically during the 1940s. The ruling party experienced a steady decline in support, highlighting the importance of successful economic policies for […]

The government in USA was deeply unhappy with the Communism’s expansion to eastern Europe, which seemed to go further and further, threatening the power of capitalism. Traditionally America’s policy was based on isolationism, but the threat of Communism expansion made the Americans realise that this was no longer possible if it wanted to have a […]

Many millions of simple peasants were unnecessarily caused untold misery by Stalin’s collectivization policy, which is widely believed to have ruined Russian agriculture. The focus of this essay is to assess whether Stalin’s collectivisation programme during the 1930s was a successful “revolution from above” as he claimed, or an excessively ruthless and ineffective policy. “Revolution […]

Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia in 1879. Stalin was educated in a religious college but was expelled for revolutionary activities. He then became a member of the Bolshevik Party, he used to organise bank robberies and was jailed a few times. After the November revolution Stalin was given more power and was promoted by […]

China and India were the two most powerful colonies under Western Rule in Asia. Western Countries often annexed many empires to their ‘colonies’. The wealth and resources were drained from such colonies in order to fund other projects in the ‘Mother Country’ (the colonizing country). This often left the locals of the land in poverty. […]

The main changes that Stalin made to industry during his reign were to disestablish Lenin’s N.E.P. (new economic policy), introduce his five-year plans (this affected agriculture as well as industry), and to take the economy under state control: this is called nationalization.With a policy of nationalization, Stalin had replaced the prospect of privatization, a key […]

Through the 1920s peasants provided the Soviet government with many problems. The argument about the future of NEP was largely to do with how the government should treat the peasants. It was an argument that had already split the politburo in two.Early in 1928 Stalin announced that the USSR was 2 million tonnes short of […]

1. Explain why according to Source D “four to five million people perished”?Richard Service states in Source D that four to five million people perished “from ‘dekulakisation’ and grain seizures.” Dekulakisation refers to the annihilation of the entire class of kulaks, which were ‘rich peasants’. Kulaks were peasants who were somewhat better off than other […]

Stalin was in control of Russia for nearly 30 years, from 1924, after the death of the Bolshevik leader, Lenin, to 1953, when Stalin, himself, died. He was incredibly brutal, and sent many innocent people to their deaths, or to “gulags” (Russian concentration camps). He had his critics tortured, or removed and was the cause […]