Faith Kiehl
Mrs. Shipley
Honors English 9
1 May 2017
Josef Stalin
• Between 1922 and 1953, the Soviet Union was ruled by Josef Stalin.
• He followed Vladimir Lenin as Soviet leader, and was the USSR’s first General Secretary of the Central Committee.
• He transformed his country from largely agricultural economy into an industrialized society.
• He led the country during World War II and helped defeat the Nazi Germany.
• He turned the Soviet Union into a superpower that could be rivaled only by the United States
• He had a different side to him as well, which delighted in countless arrests, executions, and purges, which is why he is still remembered today as one of the cruelest leaders in modern history.
• Millions died under his direct orders;
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• He sent potential enemies to forced labor camps or had them executed.
• In WWII, Stalin allied with the US and Britain, but afterwards, Stalin became involved in a tense relationship with the West, which is known as the Cold War.
• Joseph Stalin launched multiple five-year plans to try to help transform the peasant society of the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower.
• He wanted complete control over the economy and all farming by the government, which was an idea that was developed in his plans.
Millions of farmers refused to cooperate and were shot and killed on spot.
The forced collectivization led to famine throughout the Soviet Union that killed millions.
• Stalin tried to eliminate people who were against him by ruling with terror and a totalitarian grip.
• He encouraged distrust between citizens so that they'd spy on each other, and he wanted to encourage and expand the powers of the secret police.
• Stalin began the Great Purge in the second half of the 1930s.
It was multiple campaigns designed to get rid of the people he felt were a threat to the military, and Communist Party, and
His first five year plan was during 1928-1933 and this was the heavy industry plan which was making industries, transportation, and power supplies. The first of his methods was to use collectivization. Collectivization was the making of small farms into one big farm, and this would help increase the amount of products they make, and that would increase the amount of profit. Afterwards the people who were working on the farms would go into the city and be forced to work in the factories. The money then would be used to buy more more equipment which is industrial products which can help boost their profits yet again. Stalin was shown to be a heavy thinker, and to get his plans through, he made propaganda signs and speeches. He would focuses on telling his people the consequences if they didn’t work hard enough as a country, as they would be “falling behind... and those who fall behind are beaten”(Document 1). The propaganda speeches did work most of the time, but they felt hesitant as the goal for his five year plan was averaging to double the amount of, and “tripling in electricity (milliard kWh) from 5.05 to 17.0 in the end of 1933” (Document 2). Stalin
Stalin was the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 until 1953. Stalin started the economic development for the five-year plan of the Soviet Union in 1928, this lead to Stalin collectivizing agriculture in 1929. He also began to create Communist governments and connect them to the Soviet Union. Pasha was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire for a total
Stalin and Hitler were also skilled users of propaganda. Since each was a skilled user of propaganda, they could use their words to twist and manipulate the minds of people into believing that what they were saying was the absolute truth. Using this power, they would get people to do anything for them, which prove their amorality. Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as
Once eliminating Trotsky, Stalin’s idea of, “socialism in our country,” inevitably meant that Russia needed strength. The productions in the USSR had almost reached pre-war levels by the mid-1920s, but the population of Russia had also increased by 20 million people. No matter, Stalin assured that maximum efforts and resources would be given to the expansion and strengthening of Russia herself rather than an effort to start a revolution elsewhere. This is explained in his famous 1931 speech, gaining power for himself. The people had nowhere else to turn to and needed a leader. Stalin was there and knew what to do to make the people interested in his ideas, thus acquired their trust and control. From these ideas, he created his first
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.
very authoritative man named Joseph Stalin. He ruled by a totalitarian grip and by terror in order
He wanted to leaders arrested and believed that their safety may be at risk. The government sent troops,
Joseph Stalin DBQ The Soviet Union had been a king full nation in Europe. One of the most mentioned leaders is Joseph Stalin. He was a father figure to the nation. He was in power from 1922 to 1951.
Nikita Khrushchev also referred to as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a significant historical leader in history, especially in the cold war. He had a great impact during the cold war because he did many so much improvements and progress for the Soviet Union nation. Nikita Khrushchev job during the cold war, was he led the Soviet Union, he aided the Soviets also known as the U.S.S.R. Also, he served as a premier. Khrushchev was born in a small Russian village named kalinovka on the day April 15, 1984. He worked as a pipefitter, this was before he went into politics as he was a young man. He first worked with the communist party around 1918, and then eventually became better and took over as the leader of the Soviet Union.
This would allow the government to fund businesses therefore creating more jobs. He also pushed for an ease in anti trust restrictions as well as grant investment credits and tax breaks. (Murphy 2007) All these policies were supposed to benefit new businesses. This would allow them to not only create jobs but offer a decent salary. The end product did result in more jobs however there was the expectation that higher wages would be paid out.
Joseph Stalin became very fond of the name Koba, after a fictional Georgian Bandit, and joined the militant part of the Marxist Social Democratic Movement, which is known as The Bolshevik, whose leader is Vladimir Lenin. Joseph Stalin also began committing more criminal activities such as robbing banks, which the money stolen were used to fund the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested multiple time from 1902 to 1913 and was sentenced to be exiled from Siberia. In 1912, Lenin was exiled from Switzerland assigned Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee Of The Bolshevik Party. In 1917, the Bolsheviks controlled all of Russia then the Soviet Union was founded in 1922, with Vladimir Lenin as the first leader. During all of these years Joseph Stalin moved up the Bolsheviks Party ladder, and soon he became the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which allowed to appoint his allies to government jobs, and grew a base of political support. Lenin died in 1924, and Joseph Stalin finally outsmarted his enemies and won the power of the Soviet Union and he later became the
Stalin was noticed first by Vladimir Lenin who was currently getting exiled at the time. When Lenin found the Soviet Union he was the leader. Lenin worked well with Stalin and during those first few years of the Soviet Union and Stalin continued to move up in the political ranking system of the Soviet Union. When Stalin hit the rank of General of the central committee his ideas could finally be heard and giving knowledge for political support. When Lenin died Stalin beat Lenin’s rivals to the control of the Communist party, and later became the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Starting as a weak, poor boy in Georgia, to ending up as the dictator of the USSR is not something to glance over. Stalin’s heavy-handed approach and manipulation in politics is what gained him control of the Bolshevik party after Lenin, and the defeat of politics leaders on the left and right that threatened his power. It started with Stalin’s interest in the Karl Marx’s teachings. After meeting Vladimir Lenin, Stalin was then appointed as a member of the newly created Political Bureau (Politburo) and Organizational Bureau (Orgburo). Stalin would also earn the General Secretariat position, which allowed him to have constant and direct access to Lenin. This would become an extremely important position because of the manipulating Stalin would put forth to rise to the head of the state. An example of this is although Leon Trotsky was the obvious choice to lead after Lenin. Convincing Trotsky that he didn’t need to attend Lenin’s funeral, not telling the whole truth about Lenin’s last comments, and eventually having Trotsky exiled because of the threat that he presented to Stalin’s Socialism in One
He went into dangerous zones, involving bribing, forging, secretly contacting with the Gestapo, handling a lot of paperwork and a lot of money. He met with parents who wanted to get their children safety, even if it meant sending them to foreign countries.
The Soviet Union was formed after this, and as Lenin, the leader of the time, reigned, Stalin “outmaneuvered his rivals”(“Joseph Stalin”) in an attempt to become the heir to the Soviet Union. In 1924 after the death of Lenin, Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union. His end goal was to turn the Soviet Union into an “industrial superpower”(“Joseph Stalin”). The government “took control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of