Essays On Politics

Gorbachev Mikhael Sergeyevich was born in 1931 in a small village in the Stavropol region of Russia. His family lived a hard live during the time of Stalin. His family was forced into collective labour in the farms. However, he was able to survive this live because his grand father was on the Stalin side […]

Jonathan Swift and George Orwell may come from very different times- Swift in a country in turmoil during the eighteenth century, Ireland and Orwell in England while Europe was struggling to overcome the strife of the end of World War Two. These dissimilar backgrounds caused the two writers to write profoundly divergent texts. Yet A […]

In the twentieth century, Communism was an ever present, dominating regime that controlled society and all economic activity all over Europe in the 20th century. The state dominated all enterprises, controlling every aspect of it including labor. Under this regime, every person living in the country was assured a job. This also meant fixed income. […]

Firstly, and arguably most importantly, the Cuban missile crisis. In 1962, Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev agreed to buy the sugar from Cuba; in fact this was the same sugar America was refusing to buy. But, this was in return for a big favour; Russia could base their nuclear missiles on […]

After the war, Europe was left devastated and divided, leading some historians to believe it spelled the end for the continent. The extensive efforts of war had caused widespread destruction to both people and cities. In an effort to promote democracy and secure a prosperous economic market for Western businesses, America decided to provide assistance […]

By 1945, the foundations for the Cold War were firmly in place. The two superpowers of the USA and the USSR had emerged as the representatives of two strongly opposed ideologies; communism and capitalism. This means of conflict had existed since 1917 and continued to stand at the forefront of disputes between the USA and […]

As Trotsky once said ‘war is the locomotive of change’. In a `purely metaphorical sense it was the long standing ‘social `war’, waged by generations of Russians against poverty, `bureaucracy, autocracy and finally mediocrity, which for a `brief moment was triumphant in February 1917. However, it was `the very real, and very bloody, war on […]

Industrialisation in the USSR was dependent on agriculture due to various factors. The country needed significant financial resources to carry out the process of industrialisation, but lacked the necessary funds. The collapse of the middle classes meant that borrowing money from them was not an option. Additionally, borrowing money from abroad would have been controversial […]

This statement is true to a large extent. Arguably Communist rulers were more effective autocrats in comparison to those under the Tsarist regime. When examining the meaning of an autocratic state, we notice that the Communist had one absolute ruler, they were intolerant of opposition, had a rigid hierarchy and applied top down reform. Furthermore […]

What would your reaction be if you were accused of something and were innocent? This is what happened to many people in the Salem Witch Trials and in McCarthyism. Innocent people were being punished for crimes that they did not commit. Even though there was little evidence, they were being hurt simply because somebody didn’t […]

J. Arch Getty says that “The Great Terror of the 1930s in the Soviet Union was one of the most horrible cases of political violence in modern history” but was this political terror a result of Stalin’s own paranoia or a necessity to maintain control in Soviet Russia? Robert Service argues that “Nowadays, virtually all […]

The paper discusses three books: “Outwitting the Gestapo” by Lucie Aubrac, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed,” and “Soul on Ice.” The focus is mainly on Lucie Aubrac’s book, which recounts her experiences as a French Resistance fighter during World War II in Lyon. Alongside her husband Raymond Aubrac and other rebels, Lucie actively […]

The primary cause of the Cold War was the inability of the Americans to accept the lifestyle chosen by the Soviet Union as communists. The Cold War originated from a strong belief in American individualism and an attempt to enforce our values on the Soviets. Americans highly value individualism, capitalism, and a prosperous economy. They […]

‘Television brought the brutality of the war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ’ (Marshall McLuhan, 1975). What evidence exists to demonstrate that the American media coverage of the Vietnam War influenced its outcome? There are only two […]

Development of the Cold War, in the five years between 1945 and 1950, could be argued as taking place for a number of reasons and due to various individuals. It could be easy to simply site Stalin as the main reason responsible for it’s outbreak and growth, clear through his approach on communist expansion, use […]

Sedona initiated a series of revolutions to change the way China ran, the final being the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution starting in 1966 and ending in 1976 (1). The goal of this investigation is to determine Mao Godsons motives as a leader to initiate such a movement that ended up with the loss of culture, […]

The Nicaraguan Revolution took place in the 1970s and aimed to overthrow President Somoza’s dictatorship. Led by the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), it successfully removed Somoza from power through violent means in 1979. The FSLN governed Nicaragua with socialist policies until 1990, which had significant consequences for Nicaragua’s foreign policy and involvement in […]

The Red Guard youths during the Cultural Revolution created chaos and paralysis by looting temples, restaurants, and other symbols of traditional values. This situation resembled the anarchy depicted in Lord of the Flies. Additionally, this time period led to a reorganization within the communist party where middle school and high school students took charge of […]

In Salem, Massachusetts, a dozen teen-age girls and a black slave woman are caught dancing in the woods around a bubbling cauldron. Today, you wouldn’t even use the word caught. You might think these girls were strange, but you’d hardly call the cops on them. But it’s 1692, and Salem isn’t just an ordinary small […]

Eventually, empires and nations all collapse. The end can be brought about by many causes. Whether through becoming too large for their own good, being ruled by a series of out of touch men, falling behind technologically, having too many enemies, succumbing to civil war, or a combination: no country is safe. The Russia of […]

Confucianism is a time enduring philosophy that has stood up to invading clans, war, resentment, enforcement and infringement of new philosophies, and eventually, revival. For almost 80years, up until the late 1970s, Confucianism and its ideas and values have been all but wiped away from China.Though effort was made to remove Confucianism for good from […]

Communism can be referred to as a utopian state of government in which the state has power and possess certain property, resources and production process. Specific property are not owned by the citizens’ of a country. The state can provide a form of equal resource and national production and distribution to the citizens in communisms. […]