Monday, January 14, 2008

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

totalitarianism means the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
He was a gifted orator and a dedicated Communist, especially to the cause of causing Marxist revolutions internationally, through the use of arms if need be. Staling used totalitariams to rule the soviet union he continued use of the New Economic Policy. He was a gifted orator and a dedicated Communist, especially to the cause of causing Marxist revolutions internationally, through the use of arms if need be.
Also the Five Year Plans and the great Durgers the goverment came up with that idea in1927 to 1939. The plan set ridiculously high quotas for development. As a result, steel production grew exponentially. Most of the massive industrial complexes constructed for the Five Year Plan were built by slave-laborers, sentenced for trivial and often completely false crimes.
As another part of the Five Year Plan, the government began to forcibly collectivize agriculture that is, to create large scale farms where peasants worked the land collectively. By 1936, 90% of the nation's farms had been collectivized.
the kind of leader that stalin was a communistm.

causes of wwI

The Causes of WWI was for the primary causes of the war was Nationalism, Militarism and the assassination of Farnz Ferdinard and the collopse of the alliece system.
the Nationalism is because their was a settlement in congress of vienna in 1815 Germany and Italy were out of all of this the main causes of the WWI was the new machines they had the nationalism posed a problem for Austria-Hungary and the Balkans, areas comprised of many conflicting national groups.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Karl Marx and Communism

karl Marx idea was the communism he want to free workers from what they were doing.mark argue that workers, rather than landlords, should control factories and farms, and workers would share wealth in a cominism society alos he though that comunism would be used for workers to control the goverment but it didnt work out that way instead goverments were stricts and dictorial and they were often force to workers to work extra hours.
Mark saw as the good guys who inspires him Hegel's theory and as the bad guys Bauer who he aspusted.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Karl Marx and the industrial revolution

Karl Marx was a german but his ideas change the history of russan, his idea was know as communism, because the conditions in europe was very poor ans unsaved so he arguge
that workers, rather than landlords, should control factories and farms. he though that workes should share the same wealthy in the society.so Marx "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." , but it was never used in other communism country.
Karl Marx believe that he had discover the key of a new history in the world of capitalism would be overthorwn by communism and approse workers would finally be free

Friday, October 19, 2007

NATIONALISM

Nationalism is a devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation. Im nationalism becuase me and my family celebrate the 4th of july and we nationalism to my counrty too becuase we go to the ecuadorian parade whne ecuador plays all my family we got together so we can watch the game or we go back to ecuador and he visit in vacation and alot of history palces.

Monday, October 15, 2007

SIMON BOLIVAR

SIMON BOLIVAR WAS A FAMOUSE PERSON BECAUSE HE BROUGH THE REVOLUTION TO THE SOUTH AMERICA. HE GOT THOSE IDEAS FROM THE AMERICA REVOLUTION AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. HIS INSPIRED TO BIRING THE REVOLUTION TO THE SOUTH AMERICA WAS FROM NAPOLEON SIMON BOLIVAR ADMIRED NAPOLEON ALOT. WHEN SIMON BOLIVAR CAME BACK FROM HIS TRIP IN EUROPE AND UNITED STATES HE DECIDED THAT HIS COUNTRY VENEZUELA TO BE FREE FROM SPAIN. IN 1810 HE JOINED FRNASISCO DE MIRANDA IN REVOLT TO THE SPANISH .

Monday, October 1, 2007

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

This was not the revolution anyone had imagined. In 1788, the King, Louis XVI, had agreed to let the Estates General meet, because he needed to tax the people to raise money, largely because of the expense involved in helping the United States with their revolution. Two of the Estates, the clergy and the nobles weren't taxed, because though there were obviously more middle-class people (the Third Estate), each Estate had one vote. The meeting was called to raise taxes, but went in a different direction. "When called to discuss national finances, the Third Estate had other complaints to air" (Hartman). Food was already scarce and prices were high, and yet the nobles and clergy wanted to raise their taxes. Riots broke out in the countryside and the mob in Paris stormed the Bastille. It was "built originally for the defense of Paris, it had become a … reminder of the injustices of absolute monarchy" (Fisher 59). After a bloody fight, the Bastille was overrun by the mob. This proved the power of the mob and their next target was the King's castle, Versailles. The King and his family were brought to Paris, where they were kept as prisoners, but held on to many of their powers. Although by this time most Frenchmen were angry with the nobility, they couldn't fathom the idea of removing the King entirely, as he was practically a god to them. A new constitution was drawn up under which the King maintained veto power over the bills that the new National Assembly passed. He agreed to support the Revolution by cooperating with it in this way. This situation remained more or less stable until 1791, when the Revolution moved from this relatively moderate state to the radical, frenzied state under which Robespierre took hold of the country.