Prominent Leaders of Russia and Great Britain

Though these two countries have very different philosophies with which they run their states, their leaders do exhibit similarities and not simply differences. For the sake of comparison, I will compare Tony Blair with Yeltsin and Margaret Thatcher with Stalin. These characters of government are widely known and easily recognizable as well thus we will focus on them. They feature prominently in each country’s history of government. Russia, under Stalin and the “Old Regime,” was very Communist, leaving very little room for Capitalism until many different reforms were incorporated so that the superpower would survive. It did not however.
Great Britain, after WWII, was Socialist in its policymaking thus change was brought about by the “Iron Maiden,” Margaret Thatcher. These similarities are quite superficial; one must discuss each leader in relation to his or her counterpart to more deeply understand thes...