In the fifth grade I had to do a partner project, immediately I looked at my best friend, excited to work with her. But then the teacher said those words that every student hates. “I’ll pick your partners.” Slowly the teacher listed off who was working with who, than she came to my name. The name she called for me to work with was a name than I hated, a girl I never got along with. She was the smartest girl in the class though, I knew that if I wanted a good grade I would work with her, even though I wanted to work with my best friend. When in a time that we need to work together with someone, we don’t always get to work with who we want to work with. But the people we work with are the ones who give us the best outcome. Similarly, Joseph …show more content…
But Stalin joining with Hitler had more to do with Mutual need than a friendship. Joseph Stalin was a communist, on the other hand Hitler was a fascist. And since those two things are polar opposites, Stalin would not want the spreading of fascism. The belief that all private ownership of land and assets was theft, is communism. But fascism is the belief that all actions should be done for the good of the state. So basically fascism is everything you do is for the state, and communism is everything belongs to everyone. Stalin had a list of reasons to sign the nonaggression pact. But at the top of his list was a grudge, anger at the Western nations for not aligning with him to stop Hitler originally. In the beginning of this, Stalin wanted to work with Britain and France to defeat Germany and to protect Poland. Yet, the three countries could not come up with an even. Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Prime Minister, disagreed with the ways of the Soviet Union (Spartacus 1). Stalin's Military was currently too weak to fight the Nazi’s alone. Joseph Stalin needed time to build up a stronger military. Stalin’s military was weakened by the Red Army Officer Purge in 1937, knowing this, Stalin was smart enough to know he could never handle the Nazi’s by
World leaders are leaders with high governmental power in the world. Every leader, not just world leaders, is either great or corrupt; they are rarely both. Most of Russia’s history is filled with corrupt leaders. Joseph was one of those leaders. Stalin killed millions of people during his rule. But Stalin also led the Soviet Union almost to the top in world power. Stalin had many influences that led him to his Soviet Leadership in which gave him many admirers but even more non-supporters.
Source 1 contrasts liberalism through supporting fascism. The source is contrasting one of the liberals main ideas, Freedom of choice. Liberalism focuses on the freedom of the individual and that choices that regard the individual should be made by the individual or majority. The quotes is suggesting that through a general election, the chances of a good leader being chosen are rare. He suggests a specific individual will be born a leader. In the first sentence of the quote, Hitler talks about the way a general election works. He calls it absurd and in turn is saying how a general election is not a good way to elect a leader. This shows the resistance to liberalism as liberalism believes in a general election as it backs up
Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.
Joseph Stalin greatly influenced Russia in the years 1924 through 1932. His rise to this power can be explained by the Russian Revolutionary experience that allowed him to gain authority in Russia. Although historians often refer to Stalin as a ruthless, mindless dictator, he redirected the Russian Revolution to major economic development. Stalin’s character in Russia during the Revolution catalyzed the many events that took place during the time period. Because of Stalin’s ability to both appeal to the masses, and take advantage of events, like Lenin’s death, Stalin was able to rise to power. Essentially, the Russian Revolution fostered the development of Stalin’s dictatorship leading the country into a state of economic growth and influence. The Revolution fostered Stalin’s ability to maintain a central leadership, use violence to gain control, and regenerate a previously disconnected economy.
no one saw him as a real threat. This was important and enabled him to
Stalin grad 1942 a bloody battle was going on between the Soviet Union and the Nazi’s the tale you are about to hear is what actually happened that event in 1942.
The information detailed in the United Press letter immensely expands my knowledge to help me better understand the Stalin era. For example, this letter is written by the soviet secret police, giving insight into practices used under Stalin through the secret police. The letter is addressed to Stalin, informing him on a citizen who had sent telegrams about Russian events abroad. Stalin’s secret police believed that this citizen was sending telegrams with the intent to spread false information about Russia abroad. First, this piece of information of the letter shows how the lives of individuals were constantly being controlled under Stalin’s reign. All of the telegrams being sent by this citizen were being monitored by Stalin’s secret police,
For many years now, the relationship between the United States and the Russian governments can at best only be classified as complicated. The Russian government will forever be marred by the Communist ideals of the U.S.S.R., and for that reason has been consistently held at an arm’s length by many of the nations around the world. Americans have been both fascinated and repulsed by the Communist ideals of the U.S.S.R., and especially by its first General Secretary of the Communist Party, Josef Stalin. Stalin has been described as secretive, paranoid, highly intelligent, and an extremely dangerous military strategist. In short, Stalin embodies the very communist traits that so many government officials feared throughout the 20th century.
The man we know today as Joseph Stalin was born on 18th of December, 1878 in the town of Gori. As a child, Stalin experienced the poverty that most peasants had to endure in Russia at the end of the 19th century. The town where Stalin grew up was a violent and lawless place. His father was an alcoholic, which gradually led to his business failing. These experiences encouraged Stalin to study hard to become something successful in life. Due to financial issues, Stalin had to quit school. Shortly after leaving school, Stalin discovered the writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a revolutionary.
On March 18, 1878 in the small town of Gori Georgia a woman named Keke Geladze give birth to a baby boy by the name of Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (later changed to Joseph Stalin). At the time, obviously, Keke had no idea of what that little boy would go on to do. She had no idea that by the end of his life that same baby boy would have a kill count of around up to 20 million people and would have tortured millions of millions of people along with becoming one of the most powerful man in history and Russia’s dictator.
Joseph Stalin was given the nickname as the “sphinx of the Kremlin.” Many historians believed that Stalin was the inevitable piece of the puzzle left to complete world peace. In 1939, the British and French were negotiating a compromise with the notorious Russian leader, Stalin, to hopefully reach a mutual defense treaty in order to stop Hitler in his tracks. This meeting of world powers would take place in Moscow, Russia. The compromise talks would fall out because of the suspicions of the Russian and German alliance against the British and French. The Soviet Union, would then shock the universe with a treaty that no one suspected and would scare the world because of its power. This treaty was the nonaggression treaty between Germany and Russia, which was officially signed on August 23, 1939.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as simply Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary leader and founder of the Soviet Union and the Marxism–Leninism political ideology. He was born on April 22, 1870 in Ulyanovsk, a very small town in a western-central district in the Russian Empire. He was the third of six children of a Russu-German couple, some of which ended up initiating controversial political stir-ups against the Tsar at the time.
Joseph Stalin's Leadership Through World War Two Stalin (1927-1953) led the Soviet State through the challenges of World War II. Although the war was a terrible drain on the already impoverished and exhausted society, it resulted, paradoxically in strengthening the Soviet dictatorship.
Today I want to talk about Josef Stalin, “ a man who’s genuine historic achievement lies in the fact that he found Russia working with a wooden plough and left her equipped with atomic piles” – those are the words of a polish writer, journalist and political activist Isaac Deutscher, who newer was a proponent of Stalin. In the short 20 years, Stalin took mostly agrarian country ravaged by civil war, and developed it into industrialized power. But I want to focus on the Stalin’s leadership at the most dramatic time for Soviet Union, World War II. On his qualities and actions before and during that time that proved him to be a visionary leader. Also I want to talk about things that I learned about myself after sifting through a lot of information
In 1939 Hitler made an agreement with Stalin not to attack one another. They signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact and announced the terms to the world. While privately they also agreed to divide Poland between them. Stalin was very worried as Hitler had openly stated his interest in conquering the Russian land. He signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact because he was not convinced that Britain and France would be strong and reliable enough as allies against Hitler. Another advantage was that he had planned to take over the Baltic states of eastern Poland, which had been part of Russia in the Tsar’s day. Although he did not believe Hitler would keep his word anymore, but he hoped the alliance with Germany could buy him time to build up his forces against the attack he knew would come. To Hitler’s advantage, he saw Russia as a good geographical ally in a sense that he would have helpers up in the north if a war breaks out in the west.