Two peasants used village tractor to remove big stump. First peasant said it was impossible for tractor to remove stump. Second peasant said first peasant lacked faith in great soviet machinery, then he put great effort in removing stump. Village tractor broke and peasants were sent to gulag. Now without tractor and peasants, village was doomed.
Generalissimus Joseph Stalin. Stalin is not his real last name by the way. because the Russians thought he was so strong that they called him Stalin. He was a superior leader.
The principles of strong leadership and persuasion.
It is said that young Joseph Stalin was considered handsome due to his strong features, piercing eyes, and charismatic presence.
The Soviet Union used military presence and diplomatic pressure to set up Communist governments.
The Kulaks numbered around 8 million and were mostly farmers. These people were fiercely independent and despised the Communists and especially Joseph Stalin! Stalin was wanting to undergo a massive collectivazation program especially in the Ukraine and western Russia-the breadbasket of Russia. The Kulaks didn't want to give up their ancestral home and resisted. Stalin ordered them removed and a majority of these innocent people were murdered and others sent to Siberian gulags! The Kulaks would be the first of many to experience first hand, the wrath of Stalin.
Generalissimus Joseph Stalin. Stalin is not his real last name by the way. because the Russians thought he was so strong that they called him Stalin. He was a superior leader.
The principles of strong leadership and persuasion.
His unabashed brutality.
Joseph Stalin's military goal was to become a military power. He wanted to spread communism and make his country strong.
Joseph Stalin was born losif Vissarionvich Dzhogashvili. As a revolutionary, he assumed the alias "Stalin", which is derived from the Russian word for "steel" and sounds very strong and revolution-like, indeed. He eventually made it his official last name, becoming losif Vissarionvich Stalin. Joseph is the English version of the Russian name Iosif.
It is said that young Joseph Stalin was considered handsome due to his strong features, piercing eyes, and charismatic presence.
He had thought that the was the best way for the people of the Soviet Union to live. he had been a strong supporter of Lennin ideas and he thought that this would make Russia a stronger country.
The Soviet Union used military presence and diplomatic pressure to set up Communist governments.
Yes, Stalin did believe in nationalism, but his version of nationalism was based on Soviet nationalism rather than specific ethnic or cultural nationalism. He propagated the idea of a united Soviet people, promoting loyalty to the Soviet state and its ideology. This was in line with his goal of creating a strong and centralized Soviet Union.
Changes in effect after the death of Stalin were substantial (in my opinion), some of which included making baby steps to a more democratic form of communism (oxymoron, I know). Stalin was for the most part the last "strong" soviet leader as after his death, the unions hold over its people began to decline, and eventually the soviet empire collapsed under it's own weight, freeing the small nations in its clutch. It was shortly after such events that Russia was reformed into the republic we know it as today:) So I feel we can attribute the death of Stalin, atleast in some part, to the fall of the soviet union.
Lenin's death was premature, few expected this would happen. After Lenin's death, his group of top supporters such as Stalin and Trotsky, among the other leading Bolsheviks maneuvered themselves to take control of the "revolution". Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union. His grip on the Party and the nation was strong. Party members he thought were rivals or threats to his power, such as Trotsky, were exiled or executed.
After meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, President Harry Truman believed that maintaining a strong stance against the Soviet Union was necessary. He saw the Soviets as a potential threat and wanted to contain their influence and expansion through a policy known as containment, which later became a cornerstone of his foreign policy approach during the Cold War.