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Joseph Stalin
Born Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953), Stalin was the first General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. He assumed a lead role in Soviet politics following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.
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What effect did Joseph Stalin have on russia?
Economy: Stalin's impact on Russia can be divided into 5 sections, economy, culture, nationality, the outside world and terror. Economically Stalin's impact is one of the most miraculous in history. In a matter of only 13 years, Stalin reformed industry and built Russia into one of the world superpowers. The industrial base created in the 1930's was used to out produce Nazi Germany in key areas. This increase in production was made with the use of 'Five Year Plans' to increase annual production.
Agriculture: Stalin's introduction of collective farms, where he rounded up peasants and put them onto large farms in which they worked for their lives, ensured a steady food supply to all cities and a productive agriculture. This forced collectivization was almost impossible to achieve as quotas were too high in unfertile areas, which sold for low prices and taxed the countryside and land.
What four letter acronym were the secret police force called in Stalin's time?
KGB was the acronym for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security, The State security agency in the former Soviet Union.
The question is disputable as there was no one leader of the USSR (A confederation of states including but not limited to Russia which was controlled in Moscow IE not just Russia.)
During the 1920s due there was a power struggle which began after the death of Lenin in January 1924. Various candidates such as Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin and others fought for party support - this struggle was eventually won by Stalin who gained enough popularity within the Communist Party to then become the leader of the USSR in 1928.
Stalin's leadership was long, brutal but arguably successful only ending with his death in 1953. Tens of millions of Soviet citizens died for a large number of reasons while he stood at the helm; however Russia did advance at a huge pace from an obscure peasant society in the 1920s that was largely irrelevant to global affairs to a modern industrialised state and after his death ultimately the world's other superpower only matched by the United States.
What means did Joseph Stalin use to achieve power?
Joseph Stalin used his position and created allies. He then isolated his enemies one by one, therefore rendering them powerless to his will. He then slowly killed off his enemies until his government had complete control.
When did Josef Stalin run the USSR?
From the death of Lenin in 1924 to his own death in 1953. Stalin was a cruel dictator and many communists and regular Russian people were executed en mass.
Stalin was not in sole power in the USSR at first after Lenin died. He was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and ruled together with Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev in 1923 until he ousted Zinoviev and Kamenev and took sole power in 1929 and ruled from then till his death in 1953.
What pact did Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree to?
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
or the Nazi-Soviet Pact via A+
Josef Stalin was a brutal dictator Why did Roosevelt work so closely with him?
Because he needed Stalin to win the war. Stalin was taking on an entire front more brutual than the one all the other countries were working to handle by themselves. Without Stalin, they would have lost.
What were Joseph Stalin's acts of aggression?
Iossef Jugashvili, forever known as Josef Stalin is among history's worst mass murderers, along with Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. His victims number in the tens of millions between those executed, deported, and disappeared. Violence was committed through his state instruments of the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB), comprehensive state security apparatuses, complex gulag-prison camp systems across Siberia and the Far East, and foreign atrocities such as Katyn and the Rape of Berlin.
What did people call Joseph Stalin?
That Joseph Stalin was a brutal, murderous dictator can no longer be denied. The historical evidence is overwhelming.
What were the names of Joseph Stalin's wives?
Yakov Dzhugashvili this was Joseph Stalin's son's name. This was his only child to his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze.
According to the Wikipedian article re Joseph Stalin:
"Stalin had a son, Vasiliy, and a daughter, Svetlana, with his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She died in 1932, officially of illness. She may have committed suicide by shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin, leaving a suicide note which according to their daughter was "partly personal, partly political".
Stalin may have married a third wife, Rosa Kaganovich, the sister of Lazar Kaganovich."
There is reason to believe he had further children.
Beside his suite in the Kremlin, Stalin had numerus domiciles.
Yasha, Vasily, and Svetlana are the names of his known children.
Where was the Soviet German Non Aggression Pact signed?
Hitler and Stalin signed it in 1939, and though neither knew it, they both had no intention of keeping the agreement. They both used it to buy time to prepare for war with the other, hoping to catch the other off guard. Hitler broke the pact first by invading Russia with operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, with a line of troops extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
Did Joseph Stalin win the war?
No.
AnswerWell, he sort of defeated himself. He was in charge of Russia when the Nazis betrayed the Russian-Nazi Alliance, and attacked Russia; he defeated Hitler in Russia and led the Soviet Union for a while - but then he got paranoid and started having all his support staff killed, and he basically went nuts - eventually in 1953 he died (officially a stroke, unofficially he might have been poisoned. He was not a well-liked man outside and a little inside of Russia by the time he died...)Yes, he did. His official biography states that he was born on December 12, 1879. His true date of birth according to official records was December 6, 1878.
How did Leon Trotsky rule Russia?
Trotsky never ruled Russia. After the revolution put Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power, Trotsky was considered the number two man behind Lenin. Lenin died in 1924 and the country was then run by Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. Stalin had Trotsky expelled from the country, had ousted Zinoviev and Kamenev and took full power to himself by 1928. Thus, Trotsky never was in charge.
Under Stalin what was life like for the most Russians?
People always have to be careful what they say when living under a dictatorship. Some dictators are tougher than others (this is the polite way of saying it); Stalin was tough (again being polite), quite possibly the toughest Soviet Leader in the USSR's history. Anyone saying the wrong words in his land, might end up in the Gulog (Soviet Prisons) or worse.
more crule than when czars ruled
How did the non aggression pact help both Hitler and Stalin?
Germany would not have to fight a war on two fronts as in WWI if it became allies with the Soviet. The Soviet was alienated from the rest of Europe because of its communist government, as was Germany since Western Europe was was suspicious of Germany as an agressor. At first neither was admitted in the League of Nations as many neighboring countries such as France and Poland were. The Soviet and Germany saw this disclusion as a threat to their security and maintained good diplomatic relations previous to the Nazi-Soviet Pact. In reality Hitler only wanted time to gather arms and strength in Europe before attacking the USSR, and Stalin felt Hitler was a safer bet than allying with the US and Britain as they openly opposed communist rule and Stalin's methods.
Under Joseph Stalin peasants in the soviet union were forced to do what?
Stalin forced peasant farmers to work on "collectives." These were large farms in which many peasants had no individual ownership interest but were forced to work together to raise crops for the state rather than for themselves. Some peasants who were a little more well off than other peasants were called kulaks. Stalin sent as many kulaks as he could to concentration and work camps.
How did Josef Stalin gain power?
Firstly he was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party to aid Lenin, however when Lenin became incapacitated, Stalin employed ruthless political tactics and used his power as General Secretary to dismiss supporters of Trotsky and other leaders. He then replaced the vacant positions with his own supporters. Another of his ruthless tactics was when he told Trotsky the wrong date of Lenin's funeral making him hated. He also began to play the two halves of the politburo against each other first he allied with the leftist part Zinoviev and Kamenev whom wanted world revolution to force Trotsky into exile and then joined the rightists Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky and advocated Socialism in One Country which stated that Russia should first become strong in order to dismiss the leftists Zinoviev and Kamenev. After this he argued that the NEP ( New Ecomomic Policy ) was anti-communism and had Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky dismissed. Stalin schemed his way to power using ruthless tactics: 1. Firstly he dismissed all his political foes supporter's and replaced them with his own 2. Then he sided with the Leftists to have Trotsky exiled 3. Then he sided with the Rightists to have the Leftists dismissed 4. and finally he argued that the NEP was anti-communism nd had the leftists dismissed Stalin merely eradicated his enemies and culminated his own supporters in order to become supreme ruler of Communist Russia.
As Communist Party general secretary from 1922 he concentrated control of the party apparatus in his own hands during and after Lenin's final illness, favouring his sympathisers. After Lenin's death he successfully urged a policy of early industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture in opposition to his rival Trotsky, who sought to expand the revolution abroad before concentrating on socialisation of the Soviet economy (though much of Stalin's programme ironically echoed that of Trotsky's 1920s ally Preobrazhensky). With Trotsky defeated within the party, Stalin turned to repression to crush his opponents, first exiling Trotsky and then launching a series of party and government purges culminating in the execution on trumped-up charges of key leaders and thousands more party members as well as hundreds of thousands of officials, specialists and other citizens.
Stalin tried to live up to the ideal of a man who united political power and intellectual acumen. Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1953 he intervened in scientific debates in fields ranging from philosophy to physics.2 In late 1946, when Stalin was sixty-seven years old and exhausted from the war, he schooled the USSR's most prominent philosopher on Hegel's role in the history of Marxism. In 1948, while the Berlin crisis threatened an irreparable rift between the United States and the USSR, Stalin wrote memos, held meetings, and offered editorial comments in order to support attacks against Mendelian genetics. In 1949, with the first Soviet atomic bomb test only months away, Stalin called off an effort to purge Soviet physics of "bourgeois" quantum mechanics and relativity. In the first half of 1950 he negotiated a pact with the People's Republic of China and discussed plans with Kim Il Sung about invading South Korea, while also writing a combative article on linguistics, carefully orchestrating a coup in Soviet physiology, and meeting with economists three times to discuss a textbook on political economy. In some cases he denounced whole fields of scholarship, leading to the firing and occasional arrest of their proponents. His efforts to unmask errors in science were paralleled by an equally intense drive to show how each discipline could contribute to building communism and serve as a symbolic weapon of Soviet superiority in the battle with the West along an "ideological front."
How did Stalin use propaganda to control Russia?
Here is the answer beside the other two He had cities renamed after him to create a sense of power
What were the human rights abuses which occurred under the rule of Stalin?
People were given rocks and mud to eat in Gulags. Also Joseph Stalin put himself in the gulag because he was good.
The last President of the USSR was Boris Yeltsin. In the last days of the Republic, he was locked in his office unable to leave.
