Vyacheslav Molotov

Khrushchev, “Molotov took the name hammer just as Stalin had taken the name steel, and Stalin did indeed use Molotov to smash his opposition into submission and to pound his own power base into shapes” showing that Molotov was a tool for construction that Stalin used as he saw fit. Vyacheslav’s original last name was Skryabin, but changed it to Molotov which literally meant the hammer. Molotov was arrested and banished twice in his lifetime, once to Vologda Province, and the second time to the province of Irkutsk in Siberia. In about 1930, Molotov became the Council of People’s Commissars, i.e. the Prime Minister (“Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov”). Vyacheslav Molotov, a Russian man who was…

Norman Naimark argues in Stalin’s Genocides that the dekulakization, the Holodomor, attacks on enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get…

Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody…

Reverie couldn't stop thinking of her friend. The event had a hold of her and would not let go. By writing music of the nightmare she helped herself to move on and it slowly stopped having a hold of her. The song was not censored because drugs are a world problem and Reverie wanted to express its negative effects. Another example of freedom of expression would be through creating art. Many artists make pieces that can express their thoughts in a way words never could. England-based artist by…

Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR, commonly referred to as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939. Ironically, the pact was devised by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, with secret protocols divvying up Eastern Europe and the Baltic states between both parties. Though the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact set the stage for illegal annexation of the region, it also became a highly significant document in regaining Baltic independence and served as a rallying cry for the Baltic non-violent…

Collin Lahr History T335: WWII in the Soviet Union Writing Assignment 1: Primary Source Analysis The topic of this rhetorical analysis paper is a speech written by V.M. Molotov titled “The Meaning of the War in Finland.” Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, or V.M. for the sake of time, was a diplomat and Soviet politician prominent from the 1920’s for 40 years until his retirement in 1961. This speech was given in March of 1940, during which time Molotov was the Minister of Foreign Affairs under…

appropriately. Propaganda allowed the pigs to maintain their rule in Animal Farm. Squealer had a special ability to deceit and manipulate the animals. He convinced the animals that their exhausting and tiring lifestyle was for the best of everyone. “Squealer temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paintbrush, and an overturned pot of white paint” (Chapter 8, pg 46). Squealer alterization of the the Commandments left the animals confused and…

The secret agreement determined how the Germans and Soviets would split up eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influences. In addition, Germany would give the Soviet Union the eastern half of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latria, and also the Baltic Sea. Then, Germany would acquire the land they desired. Germany would gain Poland. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union officially started their friendship by signing the Nonaggression Pact. With Ribbentrop and Molotov doing…

Triumphant Rebellion, Failed Corruption Never wrestle with pigs because you both get dirty and the pig likes it¨is a quote by the famous playwright, George Bernard Shaw, that can be easily linked to another George. George Orwell. George Orwell wrote an allegorical novella, Animal Farm, that reflected upon the Russian Revolution in 1917, by using a group of animals that revolted against their owners in the pursuit of achieving ¨Animalism¨, a term mirroring Communism. Both the Russian…

Stalin’s disallowance of the aid. Before the Marshall Plan had been officially passed, Marshall began having meetings with different soviet world factors, such as Vyacheslav Molotov and Stalin in an attempt to have transformed Germany in a way that would make it economically self-sufficient. The Soviets rejected the ideas and had actually employed tactics to slow the process of the Marshall Plan being passed in an attempt to undermine its purpose. Stalin was not originally against the Marshall…