Joseph Stalin was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary leader and later dictator of the USSR. He was born in Gori, Georgia. He studied at Tiflis Orthodox where he was expelled from in 1899. After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary undergroun...

In an age where the United States is clearly the lone superpower, it is difficult to imagine a time when our nation was afraid to go to war with another nation. The Cold War was a long time period spanning decades and several presidencies when hostilities between Russia and the United States were he...

The events surrounding the rise of Stalin in the Soviet Union and the rise of dictators like Mussolini and Hitler in Europe proved to be a defining mark of the 1930\'s and early 1940\'s. As such, these dynamic figures ushered in a new era in which the West was brought face to face with words such a...

According to most historians, the term nationalism refers to theloyalty and devotion of persons or citizens to a particular nation througha sense of national consciousness that places one nation above all others.In addition, nationalism places a primary emphasis on the cultural aspectsand inte...