Joseph Stalin truly strengthened this nation to become a widely known superpower, although he carried out mass genocide and created a murderous dictatorship. Historians have viewed him in many different ways, including a psychotic power-driven killer, a military and communist genius, and also the man who transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial colossus. Joseph Stalin should have never taken the role of the USSR’s leader. Instead, Trotsky should have been the one to take Lenin’s place, which would have saved the lives of millions. Joseph Stalin put forth many positive attributes to the USSR, however; the only reason this was possible was through his brutal intimidation tactics used on the nation’s
This party was led by SunYat-sen. In document three, “the three principles of the Guomindang” stating the points of how this nationalists party would run the country. The three principles stated “Nationalism: to get rid China of foreign influence, unite China and to regain its international respect, democracy: the people should be educated so that they could ultimately rule themselves democratically, and Social advance: this was essentially 'land reform,' the redistribution of land to the peasants and economic development.” At the same time the warlord era was happening affecting the Guomindang’s ruling of China. In 1921, the Guomindang allied with growing Chinese communist to defeat the warlords present in the country. In 1925, after Sun Yat-sen’s death, Chiang Kai-shek took over the nationalist and realized the communist were getting stronger.
Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were both powerful, ambitious leaders that worked their way into positions of power. Stalin took over after Lenin died to lead the USSR after the Russian Revolution. Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party and gained the people’s support with promises of a strong leader that resisted western powers. On their rise to power, both Stalin and Hitler became leaders of political parties, eliminated opposing parties, and promised a better future for the people and country, but Stalin used the people’s support as leverage in his power struggle with Trotsky while Hitler used his passion and the economic situation in Germany to become leader of the Nazi party and gain support over the socialists. Both Hitler and Stalin started their journey towards power by joining political parties.
The key defendants that were removed were Trotsky, Kamenev, Buhkarin, Yagoda and Zinoviev. This was significant in allowing Stalin to establish his personal dictatorship as they removed all of Stalin’s rivals from the 1920’s thus creating fear among the USSR showing that if you did anything that Stalin disliked, your life would be in danger, particularly because these people had been in positions of power therefore people obeyed all of Stalin’s orders. This lead to the wider terror among ordinary people. They were denounces, arrested and sent to Gulags by the NKVD. It is estimated that between 1934-8, 20 million Russians were sent to these gulags.
On October 16th 1934 Mao, Lin Biao, Zhu De, and 80,000 communist headed towards the west through mountainous areas. The march These marchers travelled under severe conditions and marched about 8,000 miles in total and according to the Geoff Stewart’s works, only 5,000-6,000 of the original 80.000 survived. Despite the losses, this event was seen as heroic for the Chinese, and was later used by Mao for propaganda to boost communism in China. The Japanese Army invaded China in 1937. This weakened the position of Chiang and the GMD, as they were fighting two fights at the same time.
During these years, which mark the first in Mao’s reign as leader in China, there were a number of key features of Communist rule in China, notably land reform, economic policies, as well as violence. In this essay, I intend to argue that violence was a key feature, but that there are other factors that could be described as being ‘key’ also. Mao’s immediate aim upon coming to power was to gain control of the cities, where the GMD had been at its strongest. He was determined to stamp out any remaining support for the GMD and ordered massacres of suspects. 65,000 people were killed in Guangzhou and 28,000 in Shanghai.
Mao Zedong was one of the most infamous dictators of the 20th century. His life was twisted and moulded by hatred and disdain for the oppressive Nationalist government he lived under. He swiftly became one of the most evil men to have ruled over the East. His misanthropic ways and voracity for power led to the death of 60 million Chinese citizens from 1949 - 1976. Mao adapted Communist ideas to China and he followed in Joseph Stalin’s footsteps by abusing his power and crippling the Chinese in fear with his totalitarian rule.
At 7:30 am on the 1st of July, the British began a massive attack against German forces. During the previous week, 250,000 Allied shells had hit German ranks and 100,000 British soldiers poured out of their trenches and into ‘No Man's Land’, expecting to find the way cleared for them. However, scores of heavy German machine guns had survived the artillery assault and the infantry were
In 1927 he became commander-in-chief of the "Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants". Although unsuccessful in the “Autumn Harvest Uprising” he was able to re-structure his command in order to strengthen his power and influence. After the uprising, his forces had become spread far and wide. As a result, Mao was able to reorganize his forces into in small regiments. This was accomplished by establishing a decentralized command system where each regiment would have a commissar as leader who would take orders from a superior
The falls in production led to 300,000,000 Chinese deaths so Mao’s agricultural policy was extremely responsible for the scale of the great famine in China. Mao made Lysenkoism an official policy and he personally drafted an eight point agricultural ‘constitution’ based on the crop growth theories of Lysenko and his Chinese experts. Mao and his researchers believed the theories behind Lysenkoism were a scientific truth, and that his claims of developed techniques would result in crop