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Stalin's aims for the USSR before the second World War are commonly seen as wanting to industrialise the nation, re-arm in case of a future war, and rid society of kulaks (richer peasants) as to be able to c...

1) Khrushchev ordered the invasion of Hungary, using 200,000 Soviet troops and 6000 tanks. Imre Nagy was replaced by Janos Kadar, however Nagy was executed despite promise of safe passage.

Hitler, with the aid of Joseph Goebbels, used various means of propaganda in order to distribute his radical ideas to a wide audience. These methods of propaganda included newspaper articles, radio broadcast...

I choose this question because I remember it being one that confused me and my classmates greatly during the transition between GCSE and A-level. At GCSE, your answer is black and white. You're often asked a...

Firstly, it is important to understand what hyperinflation is and how it works. The most basic definition of inflation is, that it is a sustained increase in the level of prices for different goods and servi...