tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85318964265464055632024-03-07T04:00:33.190+08:00Stalin's RegimeA blast from the past.HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-47754895518850161182010-06-25T08:25:00.000+08:002010-06-25T08:26:49.901+08:00videoI have found something interesting...<br />Check this out team<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AE9spsqKg<br /><br />by<br /><br />domHBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-9191190924248635692010-01-08T17:40:00.004+08:002010-01-08T17:51:18.078+08:00History Students! We're missing SHAUN!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSM4B_sL78tJjaKN3pX4EO3X70_zPrJc7ZfwKL5slDpsSRWdZzDdJborEefFUdPyujn5vVOMCFuMtOd_eY9r5dM524QpO9WbopD0j8-ala_woWHbDBAeLlcnhOwzQttqh3lon4GN50OdR/s1600-h/SDC12549.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSM4B_sL78tJjaKN3pX4EO3X70_zPrJc7ZfwKL5slDpsSRWdZzDdJborEefFUdPyujn5vVOMCFuMtOd_eY9r5dM524QpO9WbopD0j8-ala_woWHbDBAeLlcnhOwzQttqh3lon4GN50OdR/s400/SDC12549.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424303706243893602" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;">This is our History Class, but we were missing Shaun in the picture, we were actually working on the big project, :) It was really fun to work together!</span>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-59458562371515196032010-01-05T18:51:00.000+08:002010-01-05T19:29:18.987+08:00Personal Life of Joseph Stalin<div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc33;">EARLY LIFE</span></strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMHCv8PIyna7lV03v8qUb2NCUpSbRvUFGe0nUXwfPYtJStq0y3A9TUZHY9xjnCscyGAQOBLX-98-woUYyD2MF7c_TibtU8dfvbhfH_1ct-vkaFusRgmiQEu-NJwK5liHVwKd_bN4G9_iT/s1600-h/140px-Stalin_1894.jpg"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423208513402808978" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMHCv8PIyna7lV03v8qUb2NCUpSbRvUFGe0nUXwfPYtJStq0y3A9TUZHY9xjnCscyGAQOBLX-98-woUYyD2MF7c_TibtU8dfvbhfH_1ct-vkaFusRgmiQEu-NJwK5liHVwKd_bN4G9_iT/s400/140px-Stalin_1894.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></a></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div>Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili on 18 December 1878 to a cobbler in the town of <a title="Gori, Georgia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gori,_Georgia">Gori</a>, <a title="Georgia (country)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)">Georgia</a>. At seven, he contracted smallpox, which permanently scarred his face. At ten, he began attending church school where the Georgian children were forced to speak Russian. By age twelve, two horse-drawn carriage accidents left his left arm permanently damaged. At sixteen, he received a scholarship to a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_and_Apostolic_Church">Georgian Orthodox</a> seminary, where he rebelled against the imperialist and religious order. Though he performed well, he was expelled in 1899 after missing his final exams. The seminary's records suggest he was unable to pay his tuition fees.<br /></div><div>Shortly after leaving the seminary, Stalin discovered the writings of <a title="Vladimir Lenin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> and decided to become a Marxist revolutionary, eventually joining Lenin's <a class="mw-redirect" title="Bolsheviks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a> in 1903. After being marked by the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Okhranka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhranka">Okhranka</a> (the Tsar's secret police) for his activities, he became a full-time revolutionary and outlaw. He became one of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Bolsheviks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a>' chief operatives in the <a title="Caucasus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus">Caucasus</a>, organizing paramilitaries, inciting strikes, spreading propaganda and raising money through bank robberies, ransom kidnappings and extortion.In the summer of 1906, Stalin married <a title="Ekaterina Svanidze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Svanidze">Ekaterina Svanidze</a>, who later gave birth to Stalin's first child, <a title="Yakov Dzhugashvili" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Dzhugashvili">Yakov</a>. Stalin temporarily resigned from the party over its ban on bank robberies, masterminded a large raid on a bank shipment resulting in the deaths of 40 people and then fled to <a title="Baku" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku">Baku</a>, where Ekaterina died of typhus. In Baku, Stalin organized Muslim <a title="Azerbaijani people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_people">Azeris</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_people">Persians</a> in partisan activities, including the murders of many "<a title="Black Hundreds" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hundreds">Black Hundreds</a>" right-wing supporters of the Tsar, and conducted protection rackets, ransom kidnappings, counterfeiting operations and robberies.Stalin was captured and sent to <a title="Siberia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia">Siberia</a> seven times, but escaped all but the last of these exiles. After release from one such capture, in April 1912 in <a title="Saint Petersburg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, Stalin created the newspaper <a title="Pravda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda">Pravda</a> from an existing party newspaper. He eventually adopted the name "Stalin", from the Russian word for steel, which he used as an alias and nom de plume in his published works.During his last exile, Stalin was conscripted by the Russian army to fight in World War I. He was deemed unfit for service because of his damaged left arm.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc33;">Origin of name, nicknames and pseudonyms</span></strong></div><div><br />Stalin's original name and surname are transliterated as "Iosif Dzhugashvili". Like other Bolsheviks, he became commonly known by one of his revolutionary <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nom de guerre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nom_de_guerre">noms de guerre</a>, of which "Stalin" was only the last. Prior nicknames included "Koba", "Ivanov" and many others.<br />During Stalin's reign his nicknames included:-</div><div><br />-"Uncle Joe", by western media, during and after the <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a>.<br /><br />-"Kremlin Highlander" , in reference his <a title="Caucasus Mountains" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains">Caucasus Mountains</a> origin, notably by <a title="Osip Mandelstam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Mandelstam">Osip Mandelstam</a> in his <a title="Stalin Epigram" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Epigram">Stalin Epigram</a>. </div><div><br />-"Little Father of the Peoples" or "Papa Stalin". A common nickname in the USSR during his reign, as he was portrayed as the paternal figure of the Revolution.</div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc66;">Appearance</span></strong></div><div><br />While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic (he had several painters shot who did not depict him "right"), he was only five feet four inches high (160 cm). (President <a title="Harry S. Truman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman">Harry S. Truman</a>, who stood only five feet nine inches himself, described Stalin as "a little squirt") His mustached face was fleshy and pock-marked, and his black hair later turned grey and thinned out. After a carriage accident in his youth, his left arm was shortened and stiffened at the elbow, while his right hand was thinner than his left and frequently hidden. His dental health also deteriorated as he got older - when he died, he only had three of his own teeth remaining. He could be charming and polite, mainly towards visiting statesmen, but was generally coarse, rude, and abusive. In movies, Stalin was often played by <a title="Mikheil Gelovani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil_Gelovani">Mikheil Gelovani</a> and, less frequently, by <a title="Aleksei Dikiy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Dikiy">Aleksei Dikiy</a>.<br /></div><div><span style="color:#ffcc33;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Marriages and family</span></strong><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OzZo7Zu5RPXwJFrRzPMK4R9M6l2CRRl-t1hmEzHKs50iVg7bTbhdrHdr5hJa-FCzgcNDe3ctjjMF4wp1FqzagRUC3G3h5JXZsXaAls73JL2CXQF2Ox9wxB-tupI-mtWkZPBKYdx9-1du/s1600-h/140px-Ekaterina_Svanidze.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423208499488063074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 145px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OzZo7Zu5RPXwJFrRzPMK4R9M6l2CRRl-t1hmEzHKs50iVg7bTbhdrHdr5hJa-FCzgcNDe3ctjjMF4wp1FqzagRUC3G3h5JXZsXaAls73JL2CXQF2Ox9wxB-tupI-mtWkZPBKYdx9-1du/s400/140px-Ekaterina_Svanidze.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Left :<a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ekaterina_Svanidze.jpg"></a><a title="Ekaterina Svanidze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Svanidze">Ekaterina "Kato" Svanidze</a></span></em><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">, Stalin's first wife.</span></em></div><div><br /> </div><div> </div><div><br /><a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ekaterina_Svanidze.jpg"></a><a title="Ekaterina Svanidze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Svanidze">Ekaterina "Kato" Svanidze</a>, Stalin's first wife.<br />Stalin's son <a title="Yakov Dzhugashvili" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Dzhugashvili">Yakov</a>, whom he had with his first wife <a title="Ekaterina Svanidze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Svanidze">Ekaterina Svanidze</a>, shot himself because of Stalin's harshness toward him, but survived. After this, Stalin said "He can't even shoot straight". Yakov served in the Red Army during World War II and was captured by the Germans. They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal <a title="Friedrich Paulus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus">Friedrich Paulus</a>, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate."Afterwards, Yakov is said to have committed suicide, running into an electric fence in <a title="Sachsenhausen concentration camp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp">Sachsenhausen concentration camp</a>, where he was being held.</div><div><br /><span style="color:#ffcc33;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">2nd Marriage</span></strong><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqR8BI9IWTgKKQ-E5rMBoEMCdJLm7wXnt2czJovW4KHfwsSSCVQTFqA4ReTNnXuKKF5FGzpN54rX_zQVay3RYN4uC8V7tUL4YN1VhSlVbeqvAXPnT8CfX4YwaDtmF-TBLOeP7zRR54A9C_/s1600-h/140px-Stalin%2527schildren.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423208506323946450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 114px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqR8BI9IWTgKKQ-E5rMBoEMCdJLm7wXnt2czJovW4KHfwsSSCVQTFqA4ReTNnXuKKF5FGzpN54rX_zQVay3RYN4uC8V7tUL4YN1VhSlVbeqvAXPnT8CfX4YwaDtmF-TBLOeP7zRR54A9C_/s400/140px-Stalin%2527schildren.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqR8BI9IWTgKKQ-E5rMBoEMCdJLm7wXnt2czJovW4KHfwsSSCVQTFqA4ReTNnXuKKF5FGzpN54rX_zQVay3RYN4uC8V7tUL4YN1VhSlVbeqvAXPnT8CfX4YwaDtmF-TBLOeP7zRR54A9C_/s1600-h/140px-Stalin%2527schildren.jpg"></a></div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;">Left : Stalin with his children: Vasiliy and Svetlana<br /></span></em><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kvLgmIjkohqSTWTjXwQr2HcJQSCsuBM3-agkew3d9wiqH3bPi30hq0wChKIpd2vK63o8_45Urluh6FqUp4yngYoRhXgfblz-0c7uNZzBkYyCQVYYISP0lksLBca6oNGvQPL7wh53_fCr/s1600-h/140px-Iosif_Nadejda.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423212184095419538" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kvLgmIjkohqSTWTjXwQr2HcJQSCsuBM3-agkew3d9wiqH3bPi30hq0wChKIpd2vK63o8_45Urluh6FqUp4yngYoRhXgfblz-0c7uNZzBkYyCQVYYISP0lksLBca6oNGvQPL7wh53_fCr/s400/140px-Iosif_Nadejda.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Left : Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva</span></em></div><div><br /></div><div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Stalin had a son, <a title="Vasily Dzhugashvili" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Dzhugashvili">Vasiliy</a>, and a daughter, <a title="Svetlana Alliluyeva" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva">Svetlana</a>, with his second wife <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Alliluyeva-Stalina">Nadezhda Alliluyeva</a>. She died in 1932, officially of illness. She may have committed suicide by shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin, leaving a suicide note which according to their daughter was "partly personal, partly political". According to <a title="A&E Network" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E_Network">A&E</a> Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her. Historians also claim her death ultimately "severed his link from reality."<br />Vasiliy rose through the ranks of the Soviet <a title="Air force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force">air force</a>, officially dying of <a title="Alcoholism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> in 1962; however, this is still in question. He distinguished himself in World War II as a capable airman. Svetlana emigrated to the United States in 1967. Stalin may have married a third wife, <a class="new" title="Rosa Kaganovich (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosa_Kaganovich&action=edit&redlink=1">Rosa Kaganovich</a>, the sister of <a title="Lazar Kaganovich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich">Lazar Kaganovich</a>. In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in <a title="Novokuznetsk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novokuznetsk">Novokuznetsk</a>, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.<br />Beside his suite in the <a title="Kremlin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin">Kremlin</a>, Stalin had numerous domiciles. In 1919 he started with a country house near Usovo, he added <a title="Dacha" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha">dachas</a> at Zuvalova and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Kuntsevo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuntsevo">Kuntsevo</a> (Blizhny dacha built by <a title="Miron Merzhanov" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Merzhanov">Miron Merzhanov</a>). Before WWII he added the <a title="Lipki, Tula Oblast" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipki,_Tula_Oblast">Lipki</a> estate and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Semyonovskaya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyonovskaya">Semyonovskaya</a>, and had at least four dachas in the south by 1937, including one near <a title="Sochi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi">Sochi</a>. A luxury villa near Gagri was given to him by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Beria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria">Beria</a>. In <a class="mw-redirect" title="Abkhasia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhasia">Abkhasia</a> he maintained a mountain retreat. After the war he added dachas at Novy Alon, near <a title="Sukhumi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi">Sukhumi</a>, in the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Valdai" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdai">Valdai</a> Hills, and at <a class="new" title="Lake Mitsa (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Mitsa&action=edit&redlink=1">Lake Mitsa</a>. Another estate was near Zelyony Myss on the <a title="Black Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea">Black Sea</a>. All these dachas, estates, and palaces were staffed, well furnished and equipped, kept safe by security forces, and were mainly used privately, rarely for diplomatic purposes. Between places Stalin would travel by car or train, never by air; he flew only once when attending the 1943 <a class="mw-redirect" title="Tehran conference" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_conference">Tehran conference</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnUe_TjUjPVMWAlyhMtyD4PAdW-RF_knRU8RB3e_PO_eRVAEoLl3717g0oZombWUqapbYiBHIJ3uKrqhrzxVjN_rvIm4tMwRoPCh2kJSiK3_g6kyx5eHAVV22FwSodt2lXggUEJcaN6K8/s1600-h/140px-Stalin_1902.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423214283133417250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnUe_TjUjPVMWAlyhMtyD4PAdW-RF_knRU8RB3e_PO_eRVAEoLl3717g0oZombWUqapbYiBHIJ3uKrqhrzxVjN_rvIm4tMwRoPCh2kJSiK3_g6kyx5eHAVV22FwSodt2lXggUEJcaN6K8/s400/140px-Stalin_1902.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Left : Joseph Stalin in 1902</span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em> </div><div><a title="Joseph Stalin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, leader of the <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</a> in the mid-20th century, was born on 18 December 1878 to a Georgian cobbler in <a title="Gori, Georgia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gori,_Georgia">Gori, Georgia</a>. After finishing his church-sponsored education, he embraced Marxism and became an avid follower of <a title="Vladimir Lenin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>. After being marked by Russian secret police for his activities, he became a full-time revolutionary and outlaw. He became one of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Bolsheviks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a>' chief operatives in the <a title="Caucasus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus">Caucasus</a>, organizing paramilitaries, spreading propaganda and raising money through bank robberies, kidnappings and extortion. He was captured and exiled to <a title="Siberia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia">Siberia</a> numerous times, but often escaped. He became one of Lenin's closest associates, which helped him rise to the heights of power after the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917">Russian Revolution</a>.</div><div> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Love, Lynn<span style="color:#cc0000;">♥</span></span></em></div>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-54033426631529070692010-01-05T18:43:00.000+08:002010-01-05T18:46:42.796+08:00Pics and a Great site!!!!<div align="center">Here are more pics:</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYzn0crqAW5vDS592nZvFCmPzvES_n-GH2ta67Qj82QEp1SiVvZs8E4MJz7yHN53coM96J2OVqJwtZ0IMOigRLDN_okYwQVnl83QLabccIsloz27kRK-JLhHkV0VqhZfay1mK2ANgM8I0/s1600-h/labour.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 160px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 107px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423204619270725458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYzn0crqAW5vDS592nZvFCmPzvES_n-GH2ta67Qj82QEp1SiVvZs8E4MJz7yHN53coM96J2OVqJwtZ0IMOigRLDN_okYwQVnl83QLabccIsloz27kRK-JLhHkV0VqhZfay1mK2ANgM8I0/s320/labour.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroVoNvMB38OweuCRFyc2tHB0-8jw3ixo2lf_UZpaKmCBbi0Yp7BJRRsFbEMmJks_H9XNqV2Dn5V4rP3SJA_N3UjDXvBVVVu4vhzEYomObjTN6cyU51LZrHISR8ZFZpfpGTB5T2_t-i-Q7/s1600-h/thumbnail.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423204614852122322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroVoNvMB38OweuCRFyc2tHB0-8jw3ixo2lf_UZpaKmCBbi0Yp7BJRRsFbEMmJks_H9XNqV2Dn5V4rP3SJA_N3UjDXvBVVVu4vhzEYomObjTN6cyU51LZrHISR8ZFZpfpGTB5T2_t-i-Q7/s320/thumbnail.jpg" /></a><br /><a onmousedown="return MMsi_T('&ID=images,302')" href="http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/illingworth_s040.htm" target="_blank">http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/illingworth_s040.htm</a><br /><br />AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH<br />Mr. Dominic u need to check out this website is so cool it has all the cartoon pictures and timeline from 1940 - 1960 i think it involves a lot about WWI!!!<br /><br />hope this helps...<br /><br />by: Daniel<br /></div>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-26377708119513787412010-01-05T18:18:00.001+08:002010-01-05T19:04:22.552+08:00Pictures of Purges and others (may be helpful)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bD3m9gyYbQAK-WlzfbPBODsl9VVhO_WkYOF8F-RwBzs9bON-jMvRfBXyAqGDHEguwShCu-Dw7jxKD55pIRxP5BQY-uh4Tt-FAONpj5Z9a_xQwh_hSMy-pIEg3gH4dzKsr99GOo4ay8HD/s1600-h/stalin%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 375px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423207933261528050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bD3m9gyYbQAK-WlzfbPBODsl9VVhO_WkYOF8F-RwBzs9bON-jMvRfBXyAqGDHEguwShCu-Dw7jxKD55pIRxP5BQY-uh4Tt-FAONpj5Z9a_xQwh_hSMy-pIEg3gH4dzKsr99GOo4ay8HD/s400/stalin%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><strong>Stalin</strong>:<a href="http://i.timeinc.net/time/poy2000/images/stalin.jpg">http://i.timeinc.net/time/poy2000/images/stalin.jpg</a><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Death by the purges:</strong> <a href="http://www.bakchich.info/IMG/jpg_purge-sarko.jpg">http://www.bakchich.info/IMG/jpg_purge-sarko.jpg</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSr_ZVAiVBsYSxk3pg0NeBBZMbJzXjgK5uln-R30OHeC_W1vifWT4UZ38Nvlxu3PpLnMeCxweun6urk5Q5hORIRgL_UekhZcqhuYGGQ8h2iCbl2l_emtHoiPXBLD1EbFg8HUwujslPPU2j/s1600-h/jpg_purge-sarko%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 312px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423207234070950450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSr_ZVAiVBsYSxk3pg0NeBBZMbJzXjgK5uln-R30OHeC_W1vifWT4UZ38Nvlxu3PpLnMeCxweun6urk5Q5hORIRgL_UekhZcqhuYGGQ8h2iCbl2l_emtHoiPXBLD1EbFg8HUwujslPPU2j/s400/jpg_purge-sarko%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvMqJ4SNlLhPIKmDPtt00ECrMHNCHxFDUEdfJiS1ZwblBYqSSYFquQ9Y-YTV3KZxxlivnnHOrv3bn8Rpz7iQC_nn1JHlAJtSAuW49t9wONPtyAqJwr-0qU09SR7QWA4xYIgIgLCIfZWZe/s1600-h/volga%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 311px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423204796863590642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvMqJ4SNlLhPIKmDPtt00ECrMHNCHxFDUEdfJiS1ZwblBYqSSYFquQ9Y-YTV3KZxxlivnnHOrv3bn8Rpz7iQC_nn1JHlAJtSAuW49t9wONPtyAqJwr-0qU09SR7QWA4xYIgIgLCIfZWZe/s400/volga%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7o2JHIn0mTJ78CZjGzCXz9eRNGLKYnKhFp5eYRmZV3ytzuGBniSfdgsUICVgfjFBdOx1hCzdxaNhEgXUGj3AmdL9MO-bC_aAQKUGUirElS076u8y2RttNsn0MrQgPHGakVMlg7tpLb0wF/s1600-h/Slansky_cartoon_kresba%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 303px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423203740712446802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7o2JHIn0mTJ78CZjGzCXz9eRNGLKYnKhFp5eYRmZV3ytzuGBniSfdgsUICVgfjFBdOx1hCzdxaNhEgXUGj3AmdL9MO-bC_aAQKUGUirElS076u8y2RttNsn0MrQgPHGakVMlg7tpLb0wF/s400/Slansky_cartoon_kresba%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><strong>Left</strong>: <a href="http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/courses/361/volga.JPG">http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/courses/361/volga.JPG</a><br /><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Right:</strong> I don't really know what it says, but from the cartoon, Stalin seemed to have killed someone.</div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Slansky_cartoon_kresba.jpg">http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Slansky_cartoon_kresba.jpg</a></div><br /><div><strong>Propaganda</strong></div><br /><div><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/02/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693.jpg">http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/02/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693.jpg</a><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsuFjx9TSnQevhgmkonjMy-g_TFc_bgIuqwCa2nCXRIusEmB5OTW2JQiIJPMmmJXZz1Ke_F9TvR1HM7OcPVxTxzZ2LXm4HhVoftqRV_ytSRXjZ-BuGy-MAoAjY9sQcEOQiPzJCCQ0W3NTh/s1600-h/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423201067173523426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsuFjx9TSnQevhgmkonjMy-g_TFc_bgIuqwCa2nCXRIusEmB5OTW2JQiIJPMmmJXZz1Ke_F9TvR1HM7OcPVxTxzZ2LXm4HhVoftqRV_ytSRXjZ-BuGy-MAoAjY9sQcEOQiPzJCCQ0W3NTh/s400/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsuFjx9TSnQevhgmkonjMy-g_TFc_bgIuqwCa2nCXRIusEmB5OTW2JQiIJPMmmJXZz1Ke_F9TvR1HM7OcPVxTxzZ2LXm4HhVoftqRV_ytSRXjZ-BuGy-MAoAjY9sQcEOQiPzJCCQ0W3NTh/s1600-h/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693%5B1%5D.jpg"></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsuFjx9TSnQevhgmkonjMy-g_TFc_bgIuqwCa2nCXRIusEmB5OTW2JQiIJPMmmJXZz1Ke_F9TvR1HM7OcPVxTxzZ2LXm4HhVoftqRV_ytSRXjZ-BuGy-MAoAjY9sQcEOQiPzJCCQ0W3NTh/s1600-h/article-1051871-052905DB0000044D-950_468x693%5B1%5D.jpg"></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div><strong>Bottom Left</strong>: I found this picture interesting. Because of how Stalin modified the picture. <a href="http://www.youropinionsarewrong.com/images/random/stalin-airbrush.jpg">http://www.youropinionsarewrong.com/images/random/stalin-airbrush.jpg</a></div><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 247px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423199021478905186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcjDQ-wk4mtwuLaqEq_5LCN3NbGxy-43aFG2ssEWVFIXtc5E9VXzcJ1QcB8i98wkSSlPhb5XXbzEcDwdfbgjW0tE30cK2axnriStmM7okE_7TgCpbKOjZRbjDMDu6Zb3M7fWTWLFFvxYp/s320/stalin-airbrush%5B1%5D.jpg" /><br /><div><strong>Bottom</strong>: All the dead people that Stalin had purged. </div><div></div><div><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/Stalin%20purges/DutchPhil/stalinslegacylh8.jpg">http://media.photobucket.com/image/Stalin%20purges/DutchPhil/stalinslegacylh8.jpg</a><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94IeKChbMwc_RD6s7KyBKNhG1Z1JoKzltLM6nCF2Q_SeLldAw7UPLivHENjbKITAUFZLspDBZIQzwIuJT1-dSfKa_cnab2XjKw9SvYS1dIEwKCC7GEX2l2ukBaxKVmQ0gn1YtVf_GqCDy/s1600-h/stalinslegacylh8%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 226px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423198514459731442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94IeKChbMwc_RD6s7KyBKNhG1Z1JoKzltLM6nCF2Q_SeLldAw7UPLivHENjbKITAUFZLspDBZIQzwIuJT1-dSfKa_cnab2XjKw9SvYS1dIEwKCC7GEX2l2ukBaxKVmQ0gn1YtVf_GqCDy/s320/stalinslegacylh8%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /> </div><div> </div><div>Hope this helps, Dee<br /><br /></div><div></div><div></div></div></div>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-1218102257742696432010-01-05T18:18:00.000+08:002010-01-05T18:30:46.726+08:00Picture on labour camps!!!!!!!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGUHRCYt6pNGntumMYN9XVfj_MSxCfFws-_I4UJyQb0K-uZyQhWAIZhVNcbsl5_Jf5m-RWkpBiqt-UyNdDpSTWihDdfzt09HVz3xG0p7u3p5hLF6nSc5GkYHaqUli-oWlH6iPauhMP8MD/s1600-h/belbaltlag-1932.gif"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 245px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423198967659003618" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGUHRCYt6pNGntumMYN9XVfj_MSxCfFws-_I4UJyQb0K-uZyQhWAIZhVNcbsl5_Jf5m-RWkpBiqt-UyNdDpSTWihDdfzt09HVz3xG0p7u3p5hLF6nSc5GkYHaqUli-oWlH6iPauhMP8MD/s320/belbaltlag-1932.gif" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1l8jiMUQpSCFJy7COZrPCcxcFvrMEc56Ip5kIy4tifblghRnEcSI_6fjLmguoCIdCJAMbHEM9dZJZ3x2444CeeOgsgTmnfMqz6l8gfMrIjlYLKX6FWdm-WgAeZx7ltP35Ap9ORfe1hzu/s1600-h/gulag.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423198965809050482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1l8jiMUQpSCFJy7COZrPCcxcFvrMEc56Ip5kIy4tifblghRnEcSI_6fjLmguoCIdCJAMbHEM9dZJZ3x2444CeeOgsgTmnfMqz6l8gfMrIjlYLKX6FWdm-WgAeZx7ltP35Ap9ORfe1hzu/s320/gulag.jpg" /></a> <div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Do u guys think this are good labour camp pictures!!!!!</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>there is actually not much labour pictures in google. lolx</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>the first one is an actual Stalin's labour camp the second one was also a labour camp but i don't think is from stalin's labour camps.</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Hey Mr.dom hope this pics work out!!!!</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>The pictures was already without colour so...</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Maybe we can do what mich said we could colour it in... hahahaha</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Will try to fine more!!!!!!</em></span></div><div align="left"><em></em> </div><div align="left"><em>This is Daniel ( Pink Man ) lolx</em></div></div>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-17301013408340818542010-01-05T17:57:00.000+08:002010-01-05T18:04:23.179+08:00How do you work this thing?Alright. Lynn Shia! I need your help please! How do you use this blog? I dunno how to post or edit. This is as far as the blog would coorperate with me...haha. Besides, I wanna learn how to post the stuff on the right side...hehe. Writting stuff on blogs seems fun! Hehe...So help meeeeeee!HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-72556814074078915702010-01-01T13:26:00.000+08:002010-01-01T13:39:23.184+08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMc9GwKEAdkddeXUw_pjyx2gVSjdyCaHrxQTiHoaBumMSTu_O5REcb6rMZiI7_WIUxMS1CfMKjqJszCDN9QrZ9HFPGu_PWXfOKfnzp51chQbvcH92mXU3JdZCkTyOC0LyPFb_29bJG4Vgj/s1600-h/happy+new+year+2010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMc9GwKEAdkddeXUw_pjyx2gVSjdyCaHrxQTiHoaBumMSTu_O5REcb6rMZiI7_WIUxMS1CfMKjqJszCDN9QrZ9HFPGu_PWXfOKfnzp51chQbvcH92mXU3JdZCkTyOC0LyPFb_29bJG4Vgj/s320/happy+new+year+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421639265856409346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">Can't believe A New Year is here! Hope you all had a great 2009, and well prepared for 2010. 2009 might not be the BEST year for you and I, but we just look forward to 2010, hope everything goes well indeed.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >- Happy New Year -</span><br /></span></span></span></div>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-61891010741251076462010-01-01T01:54:00.000+08:002010-01-01T02:45:24.695+08:00About Joseph Stalin<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmRl1g8lHOo9YgwEg356Dkn0AeMNVg87NV6GPG8FvVeTO6iqLo6zSmcAHjo3SNTz-IJSTBNyIFKDJ7I2_KKDlfiJJbXGIeDg5a5KXzeWG52f4F8Enbq8mRQhiUA5ZGiVXk_BWMonprKUIe/s1600-h/joseph-stalin2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmRl1g8lHOo9YgwEg356Dkn0AeMNVg87NV6GPG8FvVeTO6iqLo6zSmcAHjo3SNTz-IJSTBNyIFKDJ7I2_KKDlfiJJbXGIeDg5a5KXzeWG52f4F8Enbq8mRQhiUA5ZGiVXk_BWMonprKUIe/s320/joseph-stalin2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421471673115228274" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Joseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st December, 1879. He was his mother's fourth child to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared on several occasions that he would also die. Understandably, given this background, Joseph's mother was very protective towards him as a child.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> Joseph's father was a bootmaker and his mother took in washing. As a child, Joseph experienced the poverty that most peasants</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> had to endure in Russia at the end of the 19th century. At the age of seven he contacted smallpox.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> He survived but his face remained scarred for the rest of his life and other children cruelly called him "pocky". </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> Joseph's mother was deeply religious and in 1888 she managed to obtain him a place at the local church school. Despite his health problems, he made good progress at school and eventually won a free scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary. While studying at the seminary he joined a secret organization called Messame Dassy. Members were supporters of Georgian independence from Russia. Some were also socialist </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">revolutionaries and it was through the people he met in this organization that Stalin first came into contact with the ideas of Karl Marx.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >In May, 1899, Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Several reasons were given for this action including disrespect for those in authority and reading forbidden books. Stalin was later to claim that the real reason was that he had been trying to convert his fellow students to Marxism.<br /><br />For several months after leaving the seminary Stalin was unemployed. He eventually found work by giving private lessons to middle class children. Later, he worked as a clerk at the Tiflis Observatory. He also began writing articles for the socialist Georgian newspaper, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:lucida grande;" ><span class="style32">Brdzola Khma Vladimir</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >.</span>HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-6975167093962427252009-12-31T18:09:00.000+08:002010-01-01T17:28:52.955+08:00FIVE-YEAR PLANSThe Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="USSR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR">USSR</a> were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid <a title="Economic development" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_development">economic development</a> in the <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</a>. The plans were developed by the <a title="Gosplan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan">Gosplan</a> based on the <a title="Theory of Productive Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Productive_Forces">Theory of Productive Forces</a> that was part of the general guidelines of the <a title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union">Communist Party</a> for economic development. Fulfilling the plan became the watchword of Soviet <a title="Bureaucracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy">bureaucracy</a>. (See <a title="Economy of the Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#Planning">Overview of the Soviet economic planning process</a>) The same method of planning was also adopted by most other <a title="Communist state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state">communist states</a>, including the <a title="People's Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China">People's Republic of China</a>. In addition, several <a class="mw-redirect" title="Western countries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_countries">capitalist states</a> have emulated the concept of central planning, though in the context of a market economy, by setting integrated economic goals for a finite period of time. The initial five-year plans were created to serve in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union, and thus placed a major focus on <a title="Heavy industry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_industry">heavy industry</a>. Altogether, there were 13 five-year plans. The first one was accepted in 1928, for the five year period from 1929 to 1933, and completed one year early. The last, thirteenth Five-Year Plan was for the period from 1991 to 1995 and was not completed, as the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.<br /><br />Each five-year plan dealt with all aspects of development: capital goods (those used to produce other goods, like coal, iron, and machinery), consumer goods (e.g. chairs, carpets, and irons), agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and welfare. However, the emphasis varied from plan to plan, although generally the emphasis was on power (electricity), capital goods, and agriculture. Efforts were made, especially in the Third Plan, to move industry eastward to make it safer from attack during <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a>. Because meeting the goals of the five-year plans had top priority as a measure of progress toward a communist utopia, official lying about productivity became part of the economic system. The attempt to turn an illiterate peasant society into an advanced industrial economy in a single decade brought intense suffering, but hardship was tolerated because, as one worker put it, Soviet workers believed in the need for "constant struggle, struggle, and struggle" to achieve a Communist society.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The First Plan, 1928–1932</span></strong><br />Stalin introduced the first plan in 1928, and its success in achieving its goals was declared ahead of schedule, in 1932. Stalin made his motivation in formulating the plan clear when he stated, in a speech to factory managers in February 1931, that Russia was "fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. The First Five-Year Plan led to marked improvements in heavy industry, but not without commensurate failures in consumer goods production and agriculture.During this period, Stalin pursued the policy of "<a class="mw-redirect" title="Collectivization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization">collectivization</a>" in agriculture to facilitate the process of rapid industrialization; this involved the creation of collective farms in which peasants worked cooperatively on the same land with same equipment. This was intended to improve the efficiency of agriculture and eliminate the "<a title="Kulak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak">kulak</a>" class of landowners, which was deemed hostile to the Soviet regime, while improving the position of poor peasants. The disruption and repression associated with collectivization was a primary cause of the famine of 1932, which resulted in millions of deaths.During 1928 and 1940 the number of Soviet workers in industry, construction, and transport grew from 4.6 million to 12.6 million and factory output soared. Stalin's first five-year plan helped make the USSR a leading industrial nation; albeit at the expense of many lives and a decline in the standard of living.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Second Plan, 1933–1937</span></strong><br />Because of the success of the first plan, the government went ahead with the Second Five-Year Plan in 1932, although the official start-date for the plan was 1933. The Second Five-Year Plan gave heavy industry top priority, placing the Soviet Union not far behind <a title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</a> as one of the major steel-producing countries of the world. On top of this, communications, especially railways, became faster. As was the case with the other five-year plans, the second was not uniformly successful, failing to reach the recommended production levels in such crucial areas as coal and oil. The second plan employed incentives as well as punishments and the targets were eased as a reward for the first plan being finished ahead of schedule in only four years. Women were encouraged to participate in the plan as childcare was offered to mothers so they could go to work and not need to worry about their children.<br />During this time, the new Soviet system of government continued to evolve as different solutions were applied in an attempt to revive the agrarian sector of the country's economy, but these efforts were largely unsuccessful because almost all of the farmers had already been evicted, imprisoned and systematically murdered as the political persecutions shifted into high gear, culminating in the <a title="Great Purge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge">Great Purge</a>. The sum total of The Second Five-Year Plan was a deterioration of the standard of living because the focus of "planners' preferences" replaced consumer preferences in the country's economy, with an emphasis on military goods and heavy industry, so that is what the economy provided. The people paid the price because very little attention was applied to consumer goods of any kind.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Third Plan, 1938–1941</span></strong><br />The Third Five-Year Plan ran for only 3 years, up to 1941, when the Soviet Union entered the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War">Second World War</a>. As war approached, more resources were put into developing armaments, tanks and weapons.<br />The first two years of the Third Five-Year Plan proved to be even more of a disappointment in terms of proclaimed production goals. Even so, the value of these goals and of the coordination of an entire economy's development of central planning has been undeniable. For the 12% to 13% rate of annual industrial growth attained in the Soviet Union during the 1930s has few parallels in the economic history of other countries. Since Russia's economy had always lagged behind the rest of Europe, these increases appeared all the more dramatic. Additionally, this high rate of growth was continued after World War II, as much devastation needed to be repaired, and continued into the early fifties, after which it had gradually declined.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Fourth and Fifth Plans, 1946–1950 and 1951–1955</span></strong><br />After the Second World War, the emphasis was on <a class="new" title="Postwar reconstruction (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Postwar_reconstruction&action=edit&redlink=1">reconstruction</a>, and Stalin in 1945 promised that the USSR would be the leading industrial power by 1960.<br />Much of the USSR at this stage had been devastated by the war. Officially, 98,000 collective farms had been ransacked and ruined, with the loss of 137,000 tractors, 49,000 combine harvesters, 7 million horses, 17 million cattle, 20 million pigs, 27 million sheep; 25% of all capital equipment had been destroyed in 35,000 plants and factories; 6 million buildings, including 40,000 hospitals, in 70,666 villages and 4,710 towns (40% urban housing) were destroyed, leaving 25 million homeless; about 40% of railway tracks had been destroyed; officially 7.5 million servicemen died, plus 6 million civilians, but perhaps 20 million in all died. In 1945, mining and metallurgy were at 40% of the 1940 levels, electric power was down to 52%, pig-iron 26% and steel 45%; food production was 60% of the 1940 level. After Poland, the USSR had been the hardest hit by the war. Reconstruction was impeded by a chronic labour shortage due to the enormous number of Soviet casualties in the war. Moreover, 1946 was the driest year since 1891, and the harvest was poor.<br />The USA and USSR were unable to agree on the terms of a US loan to aid reconstruction, and this was a contributing factor in the rapid escalation of the <a title="Cold War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War">Cold War</a>. However, the USSR did gain reparations from Germany, and made Eastern European countries make payments in return for the Soviets having liberated them from the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis">Nazis</a>. In 1949, the <a title="Comecon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon">Comecon</a> (Council for Mutual Economic Aid) was set up, linking the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern bloc" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_bloc">Eastern bloc</a> countries economically. One-third of the Fourth Plan's capital expenditure was spent on Ukraine, which was important agriculturally and industrially, and which had been one of the areas most devastated by war.<br />By 1947, food rationing had ended, but agricultural production was barely above the 1940 level by 1952. However, industrial production in 1952 was nearly double the 1941 level.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Sixth Plan, 1956–1960</span></strong><br />Another Plan to improve industry was carried out in 1956 by <a title="Nikita Khrushchev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, following Stalin's death in 1953. Some of Khrushchev's policies included <a title="Nationalization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization">nationalization</a>, the <a title="Virgin Lands Campaign" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Lands_Campaign">Virgin Lands Campaign</a>, creation of a <a title="Minimum wage" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage">minimum wage</a> and the production of consumer goods which raised the living standards of the Russians in return.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Seventh Plan, 1961–1965</span></strong><br />The progress of the Soviet Union slowed considerably during this period.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Eighth Plan, 1968–1971</span></strong><br />The Eighth Plan led to the amount of grain exported being doubled.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Ninth Plan, 1971–1975</span></strong><br />Some 14 million <a title="Tonne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne">tonnes</a> of grain was imported by the USSR. Détente and improving relations between the Soviet Union and the United States allowed for more trade.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Tenth Plan, 1976–1981<br /></span></strong><a title="Leonid Brezhnev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> declared the slogan "Pyatiletka of Quality and Efficiency" for this period.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Eleventh Plan, 1981–1985</span></strong><br />During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the country imported some 42 million tons of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Grain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain">grain</a> annually, almost twice as much as during the Tenth Five-Year Plan and three times as much as during the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1971-75). The bulk of this grain was sold by the West; in 1985, for example, 94 percent of Soviet grain imports were from the nonsocialist world, with the <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> selling 14.1 million tons. However, total Soviet export to the West was always almost as high as import, for example, in 1984 total export to the West was 21.3 billion <a title="Soviet ruble" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble">rubles</a>, while total import was 19.6 billion rubles.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Twelfth Plan 1986–1990</span></strong><br />The last, 12th plan started with the slogan of <a title="Uskoreniye" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uskoreniye">uskoreniye</a>, the acceleration of economical development (quickly forgotten in favor of a more vague motto <a title="Perestroika" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika">perestroika</a>) ended among a profound economical crisis in virtually all areas of Soviet economy and drop in production.<br />The 1987 <a class="new" title="Law on State Enterprise (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Law_on_State_Enterprise&action=edit&redlink=1">Law on State Enterprise</a> and the follow-up decrees about <a title="Khozraschyot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khozraschyot">khozraschyot</a> and <a class="new" title="Self-financing (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Self-financing&action=edit&redlink=1">self-financing</a> in various areas of the Soviet economy were aimed at the <a title="Decentralization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization">decentralization</a> of the <a title="Planned economy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy">planned economy</a>.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Thirteenth Plan 1991</span></strong><br />This plan only lasted about one year due to the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a> in 1991. The plan would have lasted into 1995 if the Soviet Union had not dissolved.<br /><br />love, lynn.<br />it was so interesting.<br />well, i did shorten it though. hope you guys enjoy reading it.<br />and happy 2010 ;)HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-63587600041518013322009-12-27T22:11:00.000+08:002009-12-27T22:13:29.333+08:00Sralins rise to powerHi there who ever needs this i found it on wikipedia when i was serching for other stalin stuff but hope this helps!!!!!<br /><br />WEBSITE:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s_rise_to_power">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s_rise_to_power</a><br /><br />Have a good holiday!!!HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-49835863883508181722009-12-17T12:59:00.000+08:002009-12-17T13:01:06.976+08:00Stalin leads, Stalin rule, Stalin is all for one<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2iO-pvNjS_CYiOu76CwWL4JTLJMR_38DHC_tee0lHIdhd-MdO2Vg3oc2F_ud5Jbe5vpNPaH9RHfXI6lmbahRGCAEhN8RVDx6xacB1fRiMklUdcaU2Ilpps32ohNFjqqo-H78BcssomUU/s1600-h/stalin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2iO-pvNjS_CYiOu76CwWL4JTLJMR_38DHC_tee0lHIdhd-MdO2Vg3oc2F_ud5Jbe5vpNPaH9RHfXI6lmbahRGCAEhN8RVDx6xacB1fRiMklUdcaU2Ilpps32ohNFjqqo-H78BcssomUU/s400/stalin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416065395929752402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />cheers,<br />DominicHBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-41748744217867562232009-12-14T15:50:00.000+08:002009-12-14T15:52:09.383+08:00HelpHey Mr dominic i just want to make sure do we start on the History project????<br /><br />Sry to interupt your holiday!!!!!<br /><br />BYE see u back in honsbridge.HBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531896426546405563.post-42882547316525587502009-12-09T10:40:00.000+08:002009-12-09T10:43:47.772+08:00Stalin: The Transformation of RussiaAction plan<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Five-plan</span><br />Collectivisation<br />Transformation<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The Purges</span><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge <br />The <b>Great Purge</b> was a series of campaigns of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression" title="Political repression">political repression</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution" title="Persecution">persecution</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> orchestrated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> in 1937–1938.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#cite_note-Figes-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Social_Catastrophe_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#cite_note-Social_Catastrophe-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> It involved a large-scale <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" class="mw-redirect">purge of the Communist Party and Government officials</a>, repression of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulaks" title="Kulaks" class="mw-redirect">peasants</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and executions.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#cite_note-Figes-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><br /><br />CheeriosHBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006647627494571696noreply@blogger.com2