Soviet Union Essay Examples

India’s Five Years Plan BY abhiJitoo Origin Five year plans were first introduced in the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1928 for controlled and rapid economic development. Much of the Soviet industrial successes are a result of the implementation of its five year plans. In 1950, India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, impressed by the Soviet system, […]

Detente was a short period of clip of improved dealingss between the United States and the Soviet Union between the 1960’s and the 1970’s. Detente is Gallic for “relaxation” . Although Detente was designed to stop Cold War tenseness. it finally became a “thawing out” period. Detente reached it’s zenith with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty […]

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; […]

War is political. International politics have an influence on global wars. The Cold War was a war of actions, words, and fierce battles between the UK, US and the former Soviet Union and in several countries. During this time of 1945-1991, the UK, United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other in the […]

As the popular saying goes, the world is a global village. Long gone are the days when given races were considered superior, the days of colonialism and racial indoctrination. The force behind this is basically the internationalism and trans nationalism that is hastily becoming the order of the day. The many educational exchanges bring about […]

Despite growing racial disharmony, the United States was a fairly self-satisfied place in the 1950s. Then, on October 4, 1957, the world learned that the Soviet Union had successfully launched a 184-pound satellite into the earth’s orbit. Called Sputnik I, its radio transmitter emitted nothing more than electronic beeps, but it sent shockwaves through the […]

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 Cold War came to an end, marking the end of the ideological struggle between the East (Soviet Union and Eastern Europe) and the West (USA and Western Europe). Surprisingly, the post-Cold War era brought about unforeseen security challenges that caught both the United States and Soviet Union off guard. The aim of this essay […]

During this period the USA was increasingly concerned with its global position and the need to contain the growing threat of international communism. The period started badly with the ‘fall’ of China to communism in 1949. The measure of US success in the Cold War at this time depends upon perception of the American position […]

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 […]

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 […]

1. In Source A, the reasons for the German defeat at Stalingrad are not explained adequately. However, it does state some of the causes. Such as ‘Troops without ammunition or food’, the fact that they were ‘without dressings or drugs’ for the wounded soldiers. The other reasons for the defeat that are not stated are […]

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 […]

To answer this question with total understanding as to Orwell’s vision, we must first be aware of his personal feelings towards the revolution that took place in Russia, and translate it to, in ‘Animal Farm’, the rebellion of a group of farm animals. And in ‘1984’ Watson’s need of rebellion. Orwell’s vision of society in […]

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 […]

Cuba is the least to blame for causing this crisis, though it still did have a part in causing the crisis due to some of its hostile actions. Firstly, it nationalized all American businesses in Cuba by taking over their businesses for the country instead to receive its profits. Also, it was responsible on behalf […]

In the 1920’s the soviet economy was failing disastrously the revolution and the civil war had devastated the soviet economy and the economic output was less than that under the Tsar. There were Famines followed by high prices and hyperinflation and major crises like the scissors crisis. Stalin instigated a series of vast five year […]

October 1962, saw the world on the brink of a Nuclear War which was thankfully avoided. One of the consequences of this was that both sides wished to get that close again, and it left Kennedy and America as the winners in the eyes of most independent spectators. Hence, both powers played key roles prior […]

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 […]

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 […]