Kevin's Global blog

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-14T05:30:00.000-08:00

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of Russia for many years. He ruled with a method called totalitarianism which is were he has absolute power over everyone and everything. They also use propaganda to their advantage by saying things that would inspire fear into the Russian people. He also ruled with the idea of communism because he thought that when the czar was ruling that it was not right against the people of Russia and that everyone should share the wealth not just one person. Stalin was a harsh leader against the people of Russia the country could not socially and economically advance because of that the fact that he would not like to socialize with other countries

Causes of WWI

2008-01-14T05:06:00.000-08:00

There were many causes to ww1. WW1 was between the Germans ,British , Austria-Hungary , France and Eventually the United States. One main cause of ww1 was that the arch-duke of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand was assassinated and they then started pointing fingers at different countries. So then they started spending money on manufacturing weapons and they started stockpiling weapons in any event of war. The arch duke was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist of the Serbian nationalist movement known as the black hand. after it was known that it was the Serbians who committed the murder, Germany pressured Austria-Hungary to attack Serbia and convinced that the Serbian had conspired against them, they handed the Serbians an ultimatum which was a demand which if they did not meet it result in war.

DR.ZHIVAGO

2008-01-10T05:18:00.000-08:00

Dr. Zhivago was a movie about russian doctor's first hand look at the russian revolution and what russia looked like at that time and what it did to people and how it changed russia forever. Dr. Zhivago depicted the russian revolution as chaotic and many died.There were many reasons why the russians wanted change. One of the reasons was that while the czar was comfortable and living a good life the people of russia were dying off starvation and poverty and they wanted change. The film depicted communism as like fair and everyone shares the wealth but that actually wasnt the case. Dr. Zhivago when he got to his house he saw that as much as fifteen families were in his house and he lived in a pretty big house because he was more fortunate than other people because he was a well paid doctor. That was his first hand look at communism in action

The white masn burden

2007-12-10T05:26:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx and Communism

2007-11-15T05:38:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was a German who practically created communism through the idea of economical equality and everyone be just as rich or poor as everyone else. He thought that no matter how hard you worked or how lazy you were that you would be treated the same. He also stated that there will be no one richer or more powerful than one another because he saw that no man was bigger than another. In his communist manifesto he stated that no that the workforce should overthrow the employer if treated unfair. A communist country shall also depend upon themselves and to not really communicate with others. There are still a couple communists countries left in the world today

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2007-11-15T05:21:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx had a great deal to do with the industrial revolution because he made he thought that the industrial revolution was not a revolution at all because he thought that the workers were not really going any where in life because they just sold their labor to factory owners. He saw the industrial revolution divided into 2 classes the proletariat which were the working class and he thought they were not getting anywhere because of the fact they just worked for whoever paid the most. The next class was called the bourgeoisie and they were the upper class or the ones who owned the factories and sweatshops etc. They were the ones who he stated in the "communist manifesto" should be overthrown by their employers.
He also stated that the economy be divided and every one share the wealth and no matter how hard you worked or how lazy you were you would be paid the same amount.

The Scientific Revolution

2007-09-10T05:32:00.000-07:00

The scientific revolution which occurred in the 1500 was a time when many scientists started to question the laws of science at that time and they started to question the work of early scientists like Aristotle.Scientists like Isaac Newton and Galileo proved these theories that Aristotle and other scientists from that time had.One thing that was introduced was the scientific metho