1. Stalin's youth was surrounded by much violence. His father was an alcoholic who has mercilessly beaten his mother which instilled a sense of violence with in him. Once his dad left the family, he grew academically and was then invited to a Seminary. This was where he learned many of the marks teachings.
2. When he first began, he couldn't do much for the cause other then to go to prison. Each time the Tzar's police would find them and he would be arrested and thrown into exile a numerous amount of times.
3. Stalin had gotten many of his ideas from Lenin. Lenin had even given him power in the Central Committee had placed him as an editor of their newspaper Pravada. When Lenin died, Stalin spread around about how close he had been to
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Many slaughtered half their cattle just so the government wouldn't get them, they were just that outraged.
7. Five million people alone in the Ukraine died of famine due to Stalin's hand in taking all of their crop.
8. The groups that were hurt by Stalin ranged from clergy men, shopkeeper, to even ex-white army soldiers. I think these people were attacked due to their more free ideals. Shopkeepers working under capitalism, clergy men preaching, and the white army against the communist ideas.
9. Gulags are basically labor camps in which people were sent to be worked until exhausted of any energy. They were used to instill fear within the people, this kept them in line. Some people would come just because they were a couple minutes late for work and sometimes for stealing food. Some of this ofrced labor was used to build things, some being failures, but then used to woo the West.
10. At first, he allied himself with Germany but Hitler soon turned on them, bringing disaster along with a war. They had lost some land and half a million were lost in Kiev just because he would evacuate. 25 million people altogether died in WWII. Near the end, he stopped trying to intervene in the commanders work and that led them to winning.
11. He sent many of the soldiers to camps. His reasoning behind this was mainly because he thought they would revolt against him due to their viewings of Western Europe while away.
12. The Soviet Union had turned Eastern
The civilians of the country had to face the famine, a shortage of food, because they were urged to work in farms, but did not have the opportunity to gain profit or food from their hard work. The result of this caused the working-class to not be motivated and forced to continue their work for the country. In the source titled, “Famine Testimony of Tatiana Pawlichka,” it writes “ After the harvest, the villagers tried to go out in the fields to look for the grain left behind by the harvest; the communists would arrest them and shoot them, and send them to Siberia”(Famine Testimony of Tatiana Pawlichka). The author describes how desperate the peasants were in trying to be able to get food from the field and the consequences they had to face. The method used by Stalin to not be seen as an unjust ruler, in and out of the country, is by using propaganda.
These effects however were more severe under Lenin and Stalin as they sought to increase grain production by coercion. While Lenin under War communism used grain requisitioning to forcefully collect peasant surpluses from them Stalin used collectivisation to force peasants to collaborate to produce as much food as possible. Similarly in both cases the peasants refused to conform; knowing that any surplus would be confiscated the peasant produced the barest minimum to feed themselves and their family and even less food was available for Russia. One of the greatest impacts were the famines that occurred in 1921 under Lenin where the grain harvest produced less than half the amount gathered in 1931 and Russia had international help from countries such as the USA. However these impacts were the greatest under Stalin. The amount of bread produced fell from 250.4 (kilograms per head) in 1928 to 214.6 in 1932. The impacts of collectivisation were at its worst in 1932-32 when occurred what many people describe as a self-made national famine. Stalin’s ‘’official silence’’ of the situation meant it wasn’t addressed and thus collectivisation killed between 10-15 million peasants and failed to increase agricultural output. Though a similar devastating famine occurred under
Money was required for Russia to build their own industrial base to support themselves. To build this infrastructure they had to borrow money from other countries. In exchange Russia would give them grains. Hence, Russia’s economy depended on the peasant who had to feed themselves & the bourgeoisie.The peasants weren’t productive enough. As a result, Stalin started to collect agriculture to finance industrialization (New World Encyclopedia contributors, 2014). Economics historians believe it to be the fastest economic growth rate ever achieved. In 1932-1933 the 4th greatest famine occured in the USSR due to collectivication (Fitzgerald, 2013). The workers building and working in these industries were unpaid laborers and prisoners (New World Encyclopedia contributors, 2014). Because there was about ~7 million - 15 million prisoners in labor camps and they were working in industries, those camps were now necessary for the prosperity of Russia’s economy (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). With all those measures in place the productions of coal, pig iron & steel increased (New World Encyclopedia contributors,
Vladimir Lenin was slowly degrading before Stalin took power. Before Lenin died, he spoke out against Stalin by saying, “Stalin has concentrated enormous power in his hands, and I am not sure he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution.” (Document 1). As the main creator of the Communist party and the USSR, Lenin warned the public that Stalin’s power was going to get to his head and he was going to become a selfish ruler. This became true when Stalin becomes a full time dictator. He begins abusing his power by creating a police state that brought terror among the public. He forced obedience and crushed any opposition that came in his way. Secret police arrested and killed off any traitors towards Stalin. Stalin, then, betrayed members of the Communist Party. From there, he lofted the Great Purge, which was a campaign of terror against all of his citizens. He killed off anyone that threatened the power and authority against him. Old Bolsheviks and the police themselves were either arrested or eliminated. It is estimated by the end of the Great Purge, Stalin killed as many as 8 to 13 million people. These were all people who supposedly threatened his regime. Even more people got killed, when Stalin started persecuting religious officials and followers. By Lenin’s warning, the Great Purge, and religious persecution, it is evident on how Stalin frequently abused his power during his reign. It also shows how selfish he is towards his
The terror also kept people working harder to increase the output of the economy. Movements such as the Stakhanovite movement, squeezed greater efforts out of workers and those who fell behind usually were accused of sabotaging. This benefited the Russian economy as they attempted to catch up to Europe and America throughout the age of
Stalin killed over 50 million Russians while he was in power. This was because if you didn’t agree with him you’d be killed, and many starved because there was little food. The government had little concern about the people they were killing, because if they didn’t like communism, they weren’t useful
December 21, 1879 in Georgia, Joseph Stalin is born. Around the time of Stalin’s birth Georgia was not the best place to be. They were at a miserable level of poverty, there was no industry, and they had a 75% illiteracy rate and an increasing crime rate. Stalin was born to peasants. Both of his parents were illiterate and were born as serfs. His father was a rough, violent drunk who beat his wife and child, and found it hard to make a living. He
Have you ever thought why Joseph Stalin was important? Well do I have the answers for you. I will be talking about How Stalin took over for Lenin, Why he banished Leon Trotsky, how he took over for Vladimir Lenin, and how Trotsky died. I will start off with Stalin’s early childhood (History).
Compare and contrast the ideologies and the political and economic practice of Lenin and Stalin.
By acting as if his words were indirectly Lenin's, Stalin could say almost any number of things with the people agreeing out of respect for Lenin. This relates to the propaganda technique Testimonial.
Stalin was extremely ambitious and his initial taste of power had made him even more egotistical. Trotsky fled but was hunted down and eliminated to ensure Stalin retained power. The long term effects of this ensured that future opponents of Stalin would also be eliminated. With Lenin dead and Trotsky eliminated Stalin realized he was now able to concentrate on his own policies. He abandoned Lenin's idea of 'World Revolution' and adopted his own policy of 'Socialism in One Country'.
""As known as there is no one can save from criticism? Stalin was actually super self-conscious about the way he looked, having a shorter left arm and mark. So, Stalin was responsible for the death of at least 20 million people. He said it himself: “One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic,” and Stalin sure left one. But in another side, his policies greatly improved the industry in Russia. He forced people for collectivism on the people, and many Russians considered collectivism as a bad thing, but it helped the Russian economy and industry too much. Stalin and most party leaders supported the NEP, believing it necessary to strengthen the Soviet Union and protect the revolution"."
Stalin learned about Marxism at a young age. He even studied and wrote about it prior to the revolution. However, once he was tasked with preserving it as a power in the USSR, he quickly demonstrated that
The Russian’s loss in the Russo-Japanese war was the another way that they got the public to turn against the provisional government and strengthen the communist revolt. The revolt got stronger and stronger until the Bolsheviks finally revolted and took down the Russian Provisional Government. Because of this, civil war erupted all over the country. At the end of this war, in 1920, the Bolsheviks set up the USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, under control of Vladimir Lenin. When Lenin died, Stalin aggressively worked his way up until he was the leader of the USSR. In his control, Stalin set up a “5 year plan” to advance the Russian economy from just farming to also having industry. In this plan, he would also advance the military and “cleanse the country of villains” or those he saw as villains. To “cleanse the country”, Stalin would have unfair trials that would have many on trial at once. These were called his “Show Trials”. The majority, if not all, of these people were found guilty and sent for execution. They were executed all at once, and the executions were called the Purges. To advance the Russian economy, Stalin would work the farmers to death… literally. When the farmers revolted, Stalin stopped sending them food and even more died from starvation. On the last of the purges, 16 men were put on trial and accused of acts of terrorism towards Stalin and the Soviet government. Two of them were Stalin’s allies after Lenin’s death, Zinovyev and
Yet it was Joseph Stalin who was eventually to emerge as leader of the party. This was largely because Stalin was a clever and astute politician, who was seen as being a man of the people. He was able to manoeuvre himself into a position of power through his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Once in power, he exerted an iron grip on the USSR. Stalin’s aims differed from Lenin’s in that he did not expect to spread Communism worldwide until Communism was secure in the USSR.