Transcript Stalin’s Russia & attempt’s to eliminate history

By: Zac Walker
About Stalin:
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Stalin was born on December 21, 1879
in Gori Russia and died March 5, 1953.
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As a young adult he lived the life of an
out law taking parts in crimes like
robbery, kidnapping, and extortion.
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These actions where his first political
moves.
Stalin Continued:
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He gradually moved up through political
parties and slowly gained power.
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Throughout all his hard work he finally
gained power of Russia in 1924 till 1953.
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He was never removed from power
instead he passed away.
Thesis:
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This research project demonstrates that
Stalin, like the Party from 1984
attempted to eliminate history so that he
can conform Russia to the ideology he
believes in. Stalin tried to do this through
many ways but the three main ways
include editing novels written by former
politicians and erasing people from
images.
Attempts to Eliminate History:
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Stalin was a well educated man, he was
an editor not just for pleasure but as
profession.
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One of his achievements as an editor
was when he became editor of a the first
Bolshevik Daily.
Attempts Continued:
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Two major examples of his attempts
where discovered in his personal library
upon his death.
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The two major pieces where The History
of the Bolshevik Revolution by Leon
Trotsky and The State and Revolution
by Vladimir Lenin.
History of the Bolshevik
Revolution:
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This book describes events that took place
in Russia over the time period of the
Russian Revolution.
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The novel was found in Stalin’s library with
his famous blue pen written all over it.
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The blue pen was a common editing tool
used in this ere because it could not be
seen when printed.
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An example of Stalin using the famous
blue pencil:
Bolshevik Rev. Continued:
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Inside contained Stalin’s notes, and
comments.
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Many of the pages where crossed out
and had the words lies written in big
bold letters across many of the pages.
State and Revolution:
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Like the History of Bolshevik Revolution,
the novel by Vladimir described
historical events that took place.
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In this novel the same things where
written in the book, words like lies,
traitor, and among many more.
State Continued:
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Although among the many other notes
wrote by Stalin, in the margins of the
book there where notes written by
Stalin.
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Thesis notes summarised examples of
leadership and things that Stalin could
use to lead better.
Connection of the novels
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Both of these novels stated historical
facts that could not be argued. But since
they did not match what Stalin believed
in. His ideology, he criticised them and
tried to argue, unarguable facts.
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Stalin did not only argue their points but
use what they have written as advice on
how to lead.
Events continued
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Stalin did not stop at just documents and
letters, he also proceeded to actually
remove people from photos.
Images:
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These two images include Trotsky,
someone Stalin did not agree with as
shown with his edits on the book The
History of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The are examples of how ruthless Stalin
was with his attempts to eliminate historical
events since he would use photos which
are proof of events and actually remove
someone from these photo’s.
Explanation:
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Stalin did this based on two reasons.
The first was he simply enjoyed editing,
it was a passion of his. The second, a
little more in depth is that he has a idea
for Russia. One that he did not believe
others like Trotsky and Lenin shared.
Explanation Continued:
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He wanted to eliminate the events that
they strongly wrote about so he can
become more powerful and do what he
believed was better for Russia.
Connection to 1984
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Must like Stalin, the character Winston
from the novel 1984 written by George
Orwell had a job in which he eliminated
historical events.
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He worked for the Ministry of Love which
was part of a party who ruled much like
Stalin did.
Connection Continued:
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The party had workers delete historical
events based on the fact that they
contradicted what the party stood for.
Much like what Stalin did.
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Both the Party and Stalin represented
their use’s of power and how they must
do everything they can to have
people believe in the same ideology
they do.
Conclusion:
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In conclusion both Stalin and the Party
from 1984 use their power to attempt to
erase history so that they can conform
people to believe in what they think is
true and right.
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Both Stalin and the Party do this mainly
through editing documents and also
even photos.
Works Cited:
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Jonathan Brent. Dir. Jonathan Brent. Perf. Jonathan Brent . Pritzker
Military Library, 2008. Film.
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"Joseph Stalin, a Lifelong Editor, Wielded a Big, Blue, Dangerous
Pencil." Open Culture. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2014.
<http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/joseph-stalin-editor.html>.
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Lourie, Richard. The autobiography of Joseph Stalin: a novel.
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999. Print.
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"Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin." Joseph Stalin – Russiapedia
Leaders Prominent Russians. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2014.
<http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/leaders/joseph-stalin/>.
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"Stalin's Blue Pencil." The Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., n.d.
Web. 5 Oct. 2014. <http://chronicle.com/article/Stalins-BluePencil/142109/>.
Works Cited Photo’s:
“Falsification of history." Falsification of
Photographs. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct.
2014. <http
 "Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin."
Joseph Stalin – Russiapedia Leaders
Prominent Russians. N.p., n.d. Web. 5
Oct. 2014.
<http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominentrussians/leaders/joseph-stalin/>.
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