While gorbachev was successfu lin many changes, many of which included changes that were necessary in relationship to altering Stalin s creations, Gorbachev did not succeed in doing what he truly wnated to, which was to restructure socialism and enable it to move in a more positive direction. He was successful in bringing the world more peace and stability, and he was certianly successful in changing Russia forever, but he failed in restructuring Stalin s implementations into a system that would owrk more effeciently. Bibliography lists 8 sources. A six page paper looking at Arthur Koestler's novel set during the period of Russia's Great Terror in the late 1930s. The paper shows that the most long-lasting legacy of Stalin's purges was the loss of the idealism that characterized early Communism.
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This 16 page paper considers Stalin and his policies of collectivism in agriculture and industrialisation in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1933. The social aspect which led to this era and making it possible are considered, along with the contradictory role of the Red Army, and the famine of 1933. The paper also includes the ways in which the peasants resisted and the consequences of that resistance and the reasons for the world outside of the Soviet Union to be so completely unaware of the real internal situation. The bibliography cites 15 sources, three of which are primary media sources from the era of Stalin and this paper.