Karl Marx 's Interpretation Of Communism

Stalin’s early promises compromised of socialism and a life free from exploitation in regards to his social policies. However, he soon realised his error and reverted to a more conservative form of rule, whereby the interest of the state was given priority. Many describe his soviet social policy during the 1930s as a ‘Great Retreat’, it was named this as his policies saw a return to earlier social policies under the Tsar and former leaders. It is debatable as to how far his actions were a retraction of previous decisions…and the areas impacted were women, family, and education. A common theme of the great retreat was the gender role in society.

Stalin used his cruelty as an advantage in politics. He made Russia fear him in order to get power and control. Stalin would have his own people and generals killed that would compete for power with him. Stalin put about 28 million of his own people in labor camps and burned villages to intimidate his citizens. He barely cared about other human lives.

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the USSR which stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin changed the Soviet Union from a poor society to an industrial and military superpower. Overall, Joseph Stalin’s main goal was to become the most powerful leader in the world. One major event that came upon Stalin was the Cold War. I believe Joseph Stalin wanted the Cold War because this war could give Stalin the power he needed to achieve his goal and essentially take over the world.

Joseph Stalin is a character that is very important in the world’s past. Stalin states that “Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we arenot to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well—known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist word and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the west and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”This basically says that Stalin wants to create a socialist world.

Communism had surprisingly become a rising force, that manipulated various countries throughout the world and still continues to do so.

In a philosophical sense, one of the main goals the communism forged by Josef Stalin in the late 1920s was to cleanse the workers’ state of “social evils.” However, in an effort to carry out this cleanse, Stalin strictly censored the media from covering not only crime, but any and all negative aspects of the Soviet society. Stalin even had the compilers of the 1937 census arrested. Due to Stalin’s strict media censorship it proved difficult to gain accurate information about poverty in the Soviet Union. By preventing the documentation of anything that Stalin deemed to be unfit of his Soviet society, the imbalance of Soviet communism between the rich and poor continued.

Along with that man the “founding fathers (PBS),” of the Soviet Union were publically executed for crimes against the country (PBS). During Stalin’s reign fear was a motivator anyone who spoke out was executed or sent to the Gulag’s, but that wasn’t enough for Stalin. The people who were terrified of him also had to praise him; Stalin’s grasp over Russia was so strong that wherever you were his photo was near you (BBC). Children were taught to love Stalin even though they were scared out of their minds. Stalin was given credit whenever anything good happened like there was a good growing season for farmers, just like a god and “they dare not do anything else” (BBC). The reason Stalin instilled so much fear into his fellow countrymen was what he felt would create unity (BBC).

Stalin consciously and purposefully conducted a series of purges of the Bolshevik party in the 1930s. These purges, and the Show Trials that accompanied them, solidified his cult of personality and control of the country. Old Bolsheviks who opposed him in the past or could do so in the future were arrested, made an example of, and typically executed. Stalin and his Politburo truly believed that many people were out to get them, and anyone who was not on Stalin’s side was against him. Often the accused were convicted due to inaccurate or fraudulent evidence. Although Stalin was the main perpetrator of these Purges, this essay examines the role of the accused in Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, and “Last Letter to Stalin” by Nikolai Bukharin,

Fraser Harbutt in his book on Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech highlights how there was a fear of soviet ideologies not just from the US but also from the UK, which had been made clear in Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech. “It was a chance to realize the two central elements in Churchill’s political outlook that go back to the World War I era: his deep longing for some form of transcendent Anglo-American intimacy and his persistent hostility towards Soviet communism.” They feared that communism would spread to their neighbouring countries which is why Churchill tried to send out a warning against the spread of communism. Molotov; a leading figure in the Soviet government, emphasised what the Soviet policy was, which offers a reason as to why there was a clash of ideologies as the result of the Cold War. “The policy of our party is and remains the final triumph of Socialism on a world scale.” Molotov indicated what the western fear of the Soviet policy was which consequently put the rest of the world on edge.

keeping (Fleming, 487). Stalin controlled the agenda setting by luring FDR into a false sense of

In this investigation there will also be an examination of a speech given by Joseph Stalin. This speech was given by Stalin on January 17th, 1925 at the Czechoslovak Commission of the E.C.C.I. Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953. In this speech, Stalin addressed issues affecting the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. The purpose of this speech was to address the issue of the Right party and why it posed a dangerous threat to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The format of this source is a value, as it allows the reader to develop a clear understanding of what the speaker (Stalin) is trying to demonstrate and it also gives the perspective of a Communist leader and the Communist presence prior to

To assess whether Stalin’s personality was responsible for the Great Purges, whether Stalin had complete control over the purges must be assessed, as must how his personality may have affected the course of the purges. It seems that Stalin had a volatile personality as well as a troubled personal life, which is highly likely to have created a paranoid man. His autocratic, authoritarian style of governance should have meant that only he could have been truly responsible for the purges, but whether in a system of paranoia the process could have spun out of control. Many believe that after the death of his wife in 1932, Stalin ‘lost touch with reality’.

When Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848, his writings caused debate on whether or not his economic system would be a functional one. We have seen throughout history, that many countries that use (or have used) strictly Communist ideals, such as Cuba and Russia, have the tendency to face poverty and oppression on a large scale. The Communist agenda would not be helpful to the progression of society. Marx suggested the centralization of the means of communication, the abolition of private property, and the abolition of inheritance. These suggestions would easily limit the success of a nation, like America.

Belligerent, aesthetic, and eloquent, Joseph Stalin would counteract Marshall Plan using Molotov Plan, massacre millions of his own people to obtain his power, and launch Russia into an industrialized era with purges, public executions, and ways of propaganda. Ruthless and blood full of paranoia, Joseph Stalin would obliterate anything blocking his goals and ascendancy.

Communism is an economic system that reduces an individual’s motivation to work hard, discourages people to be creative and have individuality, and restricts its citizen’s free will. The leaders of a communist government maintain a hold on the reins of its citizens at the price of making unhappy citizens and bad reputations around the world. Because of these issues, communism is an unpleasant system to live under and negatively impacts the lives of the people living under