Joseph Stalin key events

Answer 1

The annexation or incorporation of neighbouring countries into the Soviet Union whether they wanted it or not. The development of the Gulag system. The industrialisation of the USSR. The establishment of the NKVD (later to become the KGB). The great purges of counter-revolutionaries and other anti-soviet insurgents (real or imagined). The invasion of the USSR by Nazi Germany during WW2. The fight back and expulsion of the Nazis and the taking back of all lands previously occupied by the Nazis. Despite the fact that he was a murderous and paranoid tyrant, everything he did was not bad. In the 30 odd years he held power, he took the USSR from wooden plough shares to nuclear weapons and a world power.

Answer 2

December 21, 1879: ·birth of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin

September 1888: ·Stalin enters Gori Church School

September 1894: ·Stalin enrolls in Tiflis Theological Seminary

March 1898: ·First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

May 29, 1899: ·Stalin is expelled from the Seminary

April 5, 1902: ·Stalin arrested for the first time, exiled to Siberia

Summer 1903: ·the Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

January 5, 1904: ·Stalin escapes from Siberia, the first of many escapes from exile in the following decade.

1905: ·Revolution in Russia. Nicholas II announces constitutional reforms, and the creation of the Duma, or elected assembly. Stalin marries Yekaterina Svanidze.

December 1905: ·Stalin goes as a delegate to Bolshevik conference in Finland, meets Lenin for the first time.

March 1907: ·Birth of Stalin's first child, Yakov

October 1907: ·Death of Yekaterina

January 1912: ·Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats, Stalin appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin.

January 1913: ·Stalin co-writes, with Lenin, "Marxism and the National Question"

August-September 1914: ·Outbreak of World War I.

March 1917: ·Beginning of Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg

April 1917: ·Lenin returns from Switzerland, rebukes Stalin for taking a conciliar line with the Provisional Government.

November 1917: ·Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government, seize power. Stalin plays only a minor role.

February 1918: ·Stalin marries Nadezhda Alliluyeva

1918-1920: ·Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.

1921: ·Birth of Stalin's second child, Vasily

1922: ·Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

April 1922: ·Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party

May 25, 1922: ·Lenin suffers his first stroke

January 4, 1923: ·Lenin, in a postscript to his Testament, warns the Party to remove Stalin from his position of power.

March 7, 1923: ·Lenin suffers final stroke, loses his powers of speech

January 21, 1924: ·Death of Lenin. Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May.

1924-25: ·Stalin publicly attacks Trotsky for being unfaithful to "Leninism."

December 1924: ·Stalin publicly articulates his theory of "Socialism in One Country."

December 1925: ·Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.

February 28, 1926: ·Birth of Stalin's third child, Svetlana

October-November 1926: ·At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.

1927: ·Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan

November 1927: ·Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled from the Party; Trotsky expelled and sent to Central Asia.

April 1929: ·Stalin begins assault on Bukharin

November 1929: ·Bukharin removed from the Politburo

December 1929: ·Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"; collectivization begins in earnest.

1931-32: ·Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die

November 8, 1932: ·Suicide of Nadezhda

December 1, 1934: ·Murder, by Stalin's agents, of Sergei Kirov. Beginning of "Great Terror," which continues until 1938.

January 1935: ·Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others are arrested, accused of complicity in Kirov's assassination.

August 1936: ·First "Show Trial." Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies confess and are executed.

January 1937: ·Second Show Trial

June 1937: ·Purge of the army begins, top generals are tried and executed

March 1938: ·Third Show Trial, conviction and execution of Bukharin, Rykov, others.

March 1939: ·At Eighteenth Party Congress, Stalin announces end of the Great Terror.

August 23, 1939: ·Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed in Moscow

September 1939: ·Outbreak of World War II

August 20, 1940: ·Trotsky assassinated, by Stalin's agents, in Mexico City.

June 21, 1941: ·Hitler invades Soviet Union

August 1942-February 1943: · Battle of Stalingrad. Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.

November 1943: · Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran

February 1945: ·Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta

April 31, 1945: ·Hitler commits suicide in bombed-out Berlin, ending war in Europe. Red Army controls all of Eastern Europe.

August 1945: ·United States uses atomic bomb against Japan, bringing an end to the war in the Pacific.

February 1948: ·Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia, cementing Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

Summer 1948: ·Soviets blockade East Berlin.

1949: ·Communists, under Mao, are victorious in Chinese Civil War.

September 1949: ·Soviets explode their first atomic bomb.

December 1949: ·Stalin celebrates his seventieth birthday.

February 1950: ·Sino-Soviet Treaty signed

1950-53: ·Korean War

January 1953: ·Announcement of Jewish "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin, plans for new wave of terror.

March 5, 1953: ·Death of Stalin

Answer 3

Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Russian patronymic nomenclature; 18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.

Stalin launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.[1]

During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. In the years following, millions of members of ethnic minorities were also deported.[2][3]

In 1939, after failed attempts to establish a collective security system in Europe, Stalin decided to conclude a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. After Germany violated the pact in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Allies to play a primary role in the Axis defeat, at the cost of the largest death toll for any country in the war. Thereafter, contradicting statements at allied conferences,[citation needed] Stalin installed communist governments in most of Eastern Europe, forming the Eastern bloc, behind what was referred to as an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet rule, irking United States and the western allies. This launched the long period of antagonism between Stalin's Soviet Union and the western world, led by the United States, known as the Cold War.

Stalin made efforts to augment his public image and a cult of personality developed around him; however, his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced his legacy and drove the process of de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The USSR in WW2