Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was born into a poor family on December 18, 1879, in Gori, Georgia (“Joseph Stalin”, 2017). He rose to power as the leader of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when his predecessor, Vladimir Lenin, died. Stalin immediately forced rapid industrialization, with his Five Year Plan, and the collectivization of agricultural land, resulting in millions dying from famine. He lead the Soviet Union to a status of world superpower, able to outproduce the technologically superior

Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”).  Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996, a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been

Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879, originally named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He was born in a village known as Gori in the Russian province of Georgia. His father was a shoemaker, and a drunk. He left Gori when Stalin was young to find work in the city of Tiflis. With his father gone, Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the biggest impact on his life--it was she who led him in his education. Joseph started out at the local Gori Church School. After attending there, he went to the

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

Joseph Stalin was born and raised in Poverty in 1878 and died the most powerful and feared man in the world (Pauley, p.58, 2014). Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet who governed the Soviet Union as its dictator from 1922 until his death in 1953 (Pauley, p.54, 2014). Stalin had a cruel upbringing and from an early age he associated with the bullies in his neighborhood, although he was unusual as he was someone with a hunger to learn (Dervin, p.90, 2008). Stalin’s younger years involved “retaliating

Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1878 in Gori, Georgia that was a part of the Russian Empire to the birth name of Ioseb Besarions dze Jughashfvili. Born to the parents of Besarion Jughashfvili who was a cobbler and Keteven Geladze, a household maid. Stalin did have siblings but they all died at a young age. As a child Stalin had many health issues such as being born with two adjoined toes on his left foot and his face was permanently scarred from smallpox’s and the age of seven. At the age

Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was one of the biggest mass murderers of the twentieth century. From the purges in the Red Army to forced relocations, Stalin had the blood of millions on his hands. This essay is not going to debate the fact that this was indeed a brutal and power hungry individual, because he was indeed just that. I will on the other hand show you that through his way of governing the Soviet Union, he actually saved mother Russia from the German invasion in World War Two through his

The purges Joseph Stalin was the Soviet leader of Russia for over 25 years. Stalin was very paranoid and executed anyone he deemed to be a threat. In 1934, Kirov, the leader of the Communist Party and also a workplace colleague so to speak, was murdered, probably on Stalin's orders this is widely acknowledged as the even that started the ‘Purges’. Stalin used Kirov’s death as an example to order massive purges in which anybody suspected of being disloyal was murdered, sent to prison camps known

Joseph Stalin was a number of things; a masterful networker, a ruthless leader, a man of unshakable beliefs, and a man who would do absolutely anything to advance his view of communism and the Soviet Union. These are all some of the qualities that would allow for him to gain absolute control over the communist party in the Soviet Union. They are also qualities that would aid him in helping transform Russia from a backwards country, that had not progressed along with the rest of Europe, into a global

man was Joseph Stalin. The actions of Stalin during his early life, rise to power, and reign of terror are what molded him into one of the most despicable human beings in the history of civilization. Stalin was born in Gorgi, Georgia on December 18th, 1878 under the birth name of Loseb Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin).