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During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party.

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Revelations from the Russian Archives - Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit presents a virtual glimpse into the entire range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991.

• (l) Ukrainian Famine - The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and soviet union the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result soviet union of Joseph Stalin\'s policy of forced collectivization.
• (p) Perestroika - From modest beginnings at the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress history in 1986, perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev\\'s program of economic, history political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst history for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of history a centur
• (j) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Censorship - Creative writers enjoyed great prestige in both the Russian Empire history and the Soviet Union because of literature\\'s unique role as history a sounding board for deeper political and social issues.
• (h) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Early Attacks - In the years immediately following their accession to history power in soviet union 1917, the Bolsheviks took measures to history prevent challenges to their soviet union new regime, beginning with history eliminating political opposition.
• (x) Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis - According to Nikita Khrushchev\\'s memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived soviet union the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as soviet union a means of countering an emerging lead of the United soviet union States in developing and deploying strategic missiles.
• (u) World War II: American POWs and MIAs - Soviet archival documents -- from an earlier era after World War II -- reveal that Americans were detained, and even perished, in the vast Soviet GULAG.
• (v) Cold War: Postwar Estrangement - Joseph Stalin deepened the estrangement between the United library of congress library of congress archives archives States and the Soviet Union when he asserted library of library of congress archives congress archives in 1946 that World War II was an library library of congress archives of congress archives unavoidable and inevitable consequence of "capitalist imperialism" and library of congress archives library of congress archives implied that such a war might re-occu
• (i) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks - The pattern of suppressing intellectual activity, with intermittent history periods of relaxation, helped the party leadership reinforce history its authority.
• (w) Cold War: Soviet Perspectives - After World War II, Joseph Stalin saw the history world as divided into two camps: imperialist and history capitalist regimes on the one hand, and the history Communist and progressive world on the other.
• (b) Repression and Terror: Stalin in Control - During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph history Stalin set history the stage for gaining absolute power history by employing police repression history against opposition elements within history the Communist Party.
• (e) The Gulag - The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first established in 1919 under the Cheka, but it was not until the early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers.
• (k) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Suppressing Dissidents - The Communist regime considered dissent in the Soviet soviet union Union library of congress archives a repudiation of the proletarian struggle and soviet union a violation library of congress archives of Marxism-Leninism, and thus a threat soviet union to its authority.
• (q) Early Cooperation: American Famine Relief - After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the ensuing Civil War history produced acute food shortages in southwestern Russia. Several volunteer groups history in the United States and Europe had organized relief programs, history but it became clear that help was needed on a history large
• (d) Secret Police - From the beginning of their regime, the Bolsheviks library of congress soviet union archives relied on a strong secret, or political, police library of soviet union congress archives to buttress their rule.
• (g) Anti-Religious Campaigns - The Soviet Union was the first state to library of congress soviet union archives have as an ideological objective the elimination of library of soviet union congress archives religion.
• (t) World War II: Alliance - Despite deep-seated mistrust and hostility between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies, Nazi Germany\\'s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 created an instant alliance between the Soviets and the two greatest: Britain and the United States.
• (f) Collectivization and Industrialization - In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his "revolution library of congress archives from above" by setting two extraordinary goals for library of congress archives Soviet domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of library of congress archives agriculture.
• (c) Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges - The murder of Sergei Kirov on December 1, library of congress archives 1934, set off a chain of events that library of congress archives culminated in the Great Terror of the 1930s.
• (n) The Jewish Antifascist Committee - The Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) was formed in soviet union Kuibyshev history in April 1942.
• (s) Soviet and American Communist Parties - The Soviet Communist party evolved from the Russian history Social Democratic Labor Party\'s Bolshevik wing formed by history Vladimir Lenin in 1903.
• (o) Chernobyl - On April 26, the city\\'s anonymity vanished forever history when, during history a test at 1:21 A.M., the history No. 4 reactor exploded history and released thirty to history forty times the radioactivity of the history atomic bombs history dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• (m) Deportations - Joseph Stalin\\'s forcible resettlement of over 1.5 million history people, mostly Muslims, during and after World War history II is now viewed by many human rights history experts in Russia as one of his most history drastic genocidal acts.
• (r) Early Cooperation: Economic Cooperation - During the 1920s and early 1930s, tensions between history the Soviet Union and the West eased somewhat, history particularly in the area of economic cooperation.

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