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The Triumphalist school of historical thought will argue that it was President Reagan's policies that forced the end of the Cold War. His massive increase in defence spending (about a 50% increase in the ...

This question is fundamentally asking a question of continuity, it is asking whether the use of regime terror during Stalin's authority was essentially a continuity of the use of terror during Lenin's rei...

On the surface, Lenin and Stalin were equally ruthless in their use terror. However, by virtue of the length and intensity of Stalin's communist state, the very culture of Russia changes to one of permane...

The Great Terror certainly held origins within the economic difficulties and outcomes of Joseph Stalin's policies of collectivisation and industrialisation, which fundamentally re-structured all elements ...

This type of question may seem very complicated but when broken down into steps becomes much more simple. A question asking 'to what extent...' you believe that something had an impact on something else i...