Joseph Stalin

Following the Russia Revolution in 1917, Joseph Stalin held his power using propaganda, fear, and manipulation. He had his propaganda department make posters and convince people of things that werent true. Also, he threatened that bad things would happen if he was not leading. He also had many ways of manipulating things to his advantage that made it easier for him to rule.

also he had purges-periodic arrests and executions. this kept people living in terror and fear.

Joseph Stalin murdered his rivals because he feared that they were plotting against him for power in the USSR. In certain circumstances, his rivals had different ideas on Marxism and he could not handle dissent. This was even for people who had no ill feelings towards him. They believed that Lenin and Marx had opinions that seemed opposed to Stalin's. Aside from Stalin's ultra-fear complex, many murders were done to scare potential rivals into being quiet or to leave the Soviet Union. Stalin used murder to punish failure. When Hitler had taken control of Europe, and before he attacked the USSR, European Communists sought refuge in Moscow. Stalin in particular, saw German communists as failures, having failed to win elections in Germany against the Nazi's. These communists had to pay the penalty of death for their failures. He also used starvation as a method of murder. The Kulak peasants who opposed losing their lands had their livestock and grain taken from them, and they died of starvation. These "rivals" were people he did not even know, however, he saw them as a threat to the collective farm system he wanted to create.

No, he wasn't some said he was!

Stalin had an acute case of paranoia, but he was not insane. Near the end of his life he suspected virtually everyone, , even his closest aides, of being a potential assassin.

Stalin instituted the Five-Year Plans in order to quickly generate capital for, and ensure the Soviet Unionâ??s economic strength in case of, another World War. One of Stalinâ??s signature moves was to reinstate state control of the farming system which had been decentralized under Leninâ??s New Economic Policy. Stalin also wished to return the Soviet economy to the policy of Bolshevism, or a nationalized, communist economy which had been eroded under Lenin's NEP.

Hitler's government was undemocratic because when the president of Germany Hindenburg offered him the highest and powerful position Chancellorship as the first step he passed a decree known as the 'Fire Decree' he take away the freedom of speech,assembly and press through this act he was trying to threw away democracy from Germany and then he passed another act known as the 'Enabling act'. In this act he ordered his army troop to imprison all the parties except the Nazi party.

"Yes he likes penis in his bum " This incredibly intelligent quote was provided to this question by one of the most eminent historians produced by the Werstern World. I can now understand, for perhaps the first time in my life, why tens of millions of people turned to the communist system and felt that it was their only form of salvation. As a result, millions of innocent Soviet citizens were tortured, butchered and murdered.

Very much the same methods that Hitler used- he would have suspected opponents of his regime continually watched and surveyed, then have the KGB spring upon them when they were not expecting it and have them arrested and subject to systematic interrogation, torture, and threats to their families and loved ones as a means of forcing false confessions out of them. With others he wouldn't bother even doing this, he would just have them executed or sent away to the gulag camps of Siberia for many years, where many hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation, cold, overwork or ill-treatment by the camp guards. Hitler, Stalin and Chairman Mao all used these methods to quell dissent- so did Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Stalin killed millions of people, and George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four' is meant to be a thinly-veiled condemnation of Stalin's Soviet Union. If you've ever read this, the way that Winston Smith is treated is typical of the methods Stalin used against dissidents.

Fear. Simply fear that a general or generals, supported by other high ranking officers, would in time be able to oust, to supplant him and assume the leadership of the USSR. Stalin thereby proved himself to be a very "prudent", ruthless tyrant, who never hesitated to order the execution of any and all others he believed could possibly challenge him. Even Hitler could not equal his efficient disposal of real or imagined enemies.

Stalin's government was known for its anti-Semitic policies. Under Stalin's rule, Russia killed over 20 million Jews (along with millions more political dissidents, homosexuals, and gypsies) in the gulags of Eastern Europe.

Stalinist Russia was famous for its ever-present propaganda. The propaganda was led by Grigori Rasputin, Stalin's Minister of Propaganda. Rasputin was so dedicated to Stalin and his policies that, after Stalin died, Rasputin shot, poisoned, and drowned himself, his wife, and their Children.

Stalin was not known for his public displays of affection, though he did have a girlfriend for the last years of his life. His girlfriend, Eva Peron, eventually committed suicide when Stalin died.

As it was a communist nation, Stalinist Russia was free of religion. As part of the Communist Manifesto (written by John Lennon and Groucho Marx), religion was an impurity of society that needed to be exterminated from the world.

Stalin was famous for his love of basketball, and for many years of his life, he had an open invitation for Michael Jordan to visit him.

As far as Joseph Stalin was concerned, England, France and the United States had been plotting an imperialist war with Germany in the 1930's. Allied attempts in that period of time to make an alliance with the USSR were ruses. In order to protect the Soviet Union, Stalin signed the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939.

Stalin had many prison camps in the Soviet Union and had spys everywhere. If someone spoke out against the government, it would be looked at as opposition towards Stalin's government and would most likely be killed or put in one of these camps

Joseph Stalin stepped in to Lenin's shoes as the dominant ruler and instituted industrialization in the form of collective farming and social reorganization. He was Vladimir's successor, or next to take control.

Yes. Germany & Soviet Union on 23 August 1939 signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression.

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Hi This is a tough one to answer, and you're going to have to read a book or two, but essentially Stalin decided that Russia was going to be recognized as a world industrial power if he had to kill every last Russian to do it. And he tried really hard to do that. There was an expression among Russian workers that Stalin was going to provide them with all the tractors they could eat. Essentially, what used to be spent in farming was spent building factories to produce trucks, tractors, railcars, steam engines, etc. People who used to work on farms were drawn to cities to try to make a living doing a hard job for little or no money. Not that they needed money anyway, because there was nothing to buy with it unless you wanted a tractor, steam engine, or 5 miles of railway track. The farms, which used to be like family businesses, were collectivized, which was essentially Stalin saying "what you used to sell I am going to take and you will get what I decide to pay you for it, if anything." So nobody could be very surprised when farmers simply stopped bothering to grow anything they couldn't either eat for themselves or sell on the black market. As a result, Stalin sent out bully boys to take whatever grain they could find and beat the farmer half to death.

It depends on who refer to as leaders, I can give you a breakdown if you would like... STALIN---Head Of State-Died 1953 Molitov---Foriegn Minister---Unknown Berea---Head Of The NKVD Or KGB in later years--Unknown General Ivan Konev---1st Ukrainian Front General Georgy Zhukov--- 1st Belorussian Front General Konstantin Rokossovsky--2nd Belorussian Front Just to Give You An Idea, and if your researching this is what happened During the period that lasted (1/13/1945 to 4/25/1945,it cost the Red Army 584,788 casualties, and 3,525 tanks and assault guns. I hope this helps in your study

Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia on December 18th, 1878. He died on March 5, 1953.

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Joseph Stalin was the "totalitarian" leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, however he did not have dictatorial powers immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. It took Stalin until the mid 1930's before he had eliminated almost all of his equals in the Communist Party and installed people loyal to him personally in positions of power. Once he had done that he became the totalitarian leader that history remembers him as.

Created the Gulags, which were slave labor camps where he sent people who talked openly about their discontent with the government, as well as those who opposed communism. The Gulags killed over 12 million people.

It basically killed all the Old Bolsheviks that could remember Lenin, and allowed Russia to be ruled by the younger Bolsheviks who had been taught to follow Stalin.

Alternative: Stalin's terror affect not too much population at all. Many people mix Stalin's terror with anti-criminal processes. For usual Russian people, Stalin's terror was no more than newspaper header.

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The Soviet Union, in union with the other Allied forces on the Western Front's attemps, attempted to finally crush the German Nazi regime by assaulting, invading, and conquering the German capital and Nazi headquarters, Berlin.

The actual battle for the psychical city itself began on April 21, 1945 with the Soviets unleashing shells on the city. However, the Soviets had been battling their way through the last lines of German defence on the out-skirts of the city since many days before. The Soviets had been fighting for encirclement of the city. They succeeded.

The offensive ended on the night of May 2nd, with the commanders surrendering the cities and all armed forces. With Mussolini killed by Soviet Army, and Hitler having just committed suicide, the surrender in Berlin acted as a trigger that carried out through the next few days military surrenders from the Germans.

It really depends on how you look at it. There are certain traits that make him an excellent and capable leader, but there are also things he did that make him a tyrant.

For example, industrialization and social liberation. Through industrialization he improved the economy of the Soviet Union. Ultimately, that led to their ability to defeat Germany in WWII. Social liberation allowed equal rights for both males and females in the Soviet Union.

Then again, he also did some tyrannical things. Like the assassination of his enemies, the Ukrainian famine, and collectivization. Collectivization was to take food from the farmers, which didn't result in how Stalin expected it.