Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin's reign as supreme leader of the USSR ended upon his death on 5 March 1953. His death was a result of a major stroke on 1 March 1953 which brought his death in the next few days. Later analysis in 2003 suggests Stalin had ingested a powerful rat poison, warfarin, that predisposes the victim to a hemorrhagic stroke which sums up his death as a possible murder.

The Eastern Front of the European Theater.

I don't quite know what is meant by that if you are talking from the point of view of popularity among his own people. Both leaders were feared and all demonstrations of popularity were orchestrated and compulsory. Hitler certainly was admired for a short time in Germany as he managed to bring an end to the starvation that was the lot of the Germans as a result of the Versailles treaty however this was short lived. There are Nazi style organisations today because Hitler was responsible for the mass murder of millions of people that were according to him racially undesirable. Any organisation with that sort of murderous philosophy at its core would have little trouble gaining a following as Hitler him self found when he became leader of the Nazi party. As for Stalin He was responsible for the murder torture and starvation of his people throughout his carrier as a leading statesman. He like Hitler should have gained the same following. However his politics were very far removed from the ideal that is being pushed by the American press. as a matter of fact during the 1950's if you so much as sympathised with the ideals of socialism, let alone communism which by the way had nothing to do with Stalin's politics you would find yourself a marked man in the US. To boil it down to simple words Stalin was misrepresented as a Socialist to show the American public what a terrible regime it was Stalin was the leader of the USSR so he was bad. Hitler's ideals were closely associated with racism, a line of thinking that remained alive and well in the USA and most of the world even in the present time.

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First of all, Stalin was highly right-wing. Stalin outmanuevered "internationalist" Trotsky in 1929 (who was later to be assassinated in Mexico). One of Stalin's most important acts was the Five-Year Plans; this was government organized economics which were based on Trotsky's plan on economic planning. It's aim was to make self-sufficiency, and self preservation. This came at a cost however; because heavy industry was concentrated on instead of consumer goods, consumers still didn't benefit form the 5 year plans. Stalin then enabled Collectivization. All this added to a huge amount of economic growth which certainly aided the USSR prior to WWII.

2ndly, the purges. The assasination of Serge Kirov in 1934 was the excuse to start purging. He began killing off the "Old Bolsheviks" led by Bukharin, "Trotskyites", and the military (50% of officers above rank of captain killed; this was a backlash in WWII b/c there were no experienced officers).

Stalin's high point came at WWII; he managed to push them out with millions of Red Army soldiers, and made the farthest Russian presence in Europe EVER. (Only Catherine the Great had made the largest Russian empire before this; though these were buffer states). Though starting the Cold War with the detonation of the Atomic Bomb, he still made the USSR strong.

Concerned about a potential attack by Hitler, Joseph Stalin did try to stop him in 1939. Stalin wasn't able to get the international support he wanted, which led to his eventual agreement to sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Yes, Stalin was socialist because socialism was the economic and governmental system he believed in and kept in place in the Soviet Union. His main philosophy was to establish "socialism in one country."

He was a "communist" in the sense that he believed in the ideas of Karl Marx and that socialism should replace capitalism so that communism could eventually replace socialism.

Stalin would never have allowed true communism to develop in the Soviet Union, because true communism has no government. according to Karl Marx. Even Marx said that it would take generations of life under socialism, before socialism evolved into capitalism and that socialism would have to be forced upon the people for that time until all vestiges of capitalist thought were wiped out.

He was an aetheist.

Stalin had little to do with the actual take over of the government by Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks. At the time he was editor of the Bolshevik newspaper, Robachi put. On the night before the revolution he was finishing the last edition when Provisional Government police broke in and smashed the printing equipment.

He was then given the task of meeting with and speaking to the Bolshevik delegates of the Second Congress of Soviets to explain the need for the insurrection at that time. He did this, went home and the Revolution took place the next day.

In the 1920's, Leon Trotsky opposed the bureaucracy and policies of Josef Stalin. As a result, he was removed from power in 192,7 and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929. He found asylum in Mexico and continued his opposition to the Stalinist government. He and most of his family were killed on Stalin's orders.

Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union. Stalin took over after Lenin died. Stalin was not Lenin's choice as a successor but Stalin schemed and came into power, basically he stole the title. He was in power before and after WW11. He died in 1953. In WW2 he had signed a non-agression pact with Hitler, but ultimately became allied with France, Great Britain, the United States and the other Allied countries.

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.

During the Vietnam War, the main communist leaders were:
1. Soviet Union-Khrushchev & Brezhnev
2. Red China-Chairman Mao
3. North Vietnam-Ho Chi Minh
4. North Korea-Kim Sung II
5. Cuba-Castro

Most Soviet leaders had beliefs about human dignity, the only true Soviet dictator in every sense of the word was Joseph Stalin, who became the Soviet leader in 1924 and remained in power until his death in 1953. His purges killed tens of thousands of communists and resulted in the deaths of millions of Kulaks.

No, he did not. Vladimir Lenin is credited with introducing "communism" to the Soviet Union. Even so, Lenin and Stalin did not introduce true "communism." They introduced socialism and pretty poor versions of socialism at that.

Soon after the death of Lenin in January 1924 the leadership of the Soviet Union passed to the General Secretary of the [Communist] Party of the Soviet Union - Josef Stalin. In addition, the General Secretary was usually also Chairman of the Council of Minsters of the USSR. There were various minor changes in the title over the decades, and the name of the Communist Party changed slightly, too. Joncey

The person who opposed Stalin was Leon Trotsky who was also in line to be a leader of the Soviet union when Vladimir Lenin past away. but too bad... Stalin had gotten the title for he charmed many and held too great of a power for he had guided the soviet union to stop the world war 2 which was led by Hitler.

The main persons vying for power were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. There were others, such as Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin, but the first battle was between Trotsky and Stalin. Lenin favored Trotsky over Stalin, but Stalin was too entrenched in the Communist Party for Trotsky to win that struggle.

After Germany invaded Russia, Stalin joined the Allies (formally known among themsleves as the United Nations). This group expanded over the course of the war, but included Great Britain (and all British colonies and commonwealth nations), the United States, China, Greece, France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Yugoslavia, and several smaller powers. In general, the term "Allies" was used to refer to the so-called "Big Three" nations - The U.K., America and the Soviet Union. Other nations were granted the status of "Co-belligerent" but not full allies. Examples are Hungary, Italy (after its surrender), Turkey, Persia (Iran) and Iraq.

In 1946 Stalin announced plans for a new Five Year Plan. Its goal was to rebuild all the World War Two damaged areas and to accelerate industrial expansion. The plan was not quite complete and was disrupted by the advent of the Korean War in 1950.

Stalin became a Soviet Union's and a country's communist party leader in 1924, after death of V. Lenin. However, his actual dictatorship began around 1930, after he banned all private businesses, eliminated opposition, and started 20+ years-long campaign of killing fellow countrymen by the millions. By some estimates as many as 50 million people were murdered or died in camps in the name of socialism/communism.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks came into power on October 26, the culmination of the two day October Revolution. Prior to that, the Russian Provisional Government was in power. Arrest warrants were out for Lenin since July, 1917 and he had to flee the country to Finland to avoid capture. He snuck back in under disguise to organize the October insurrection which brought him and the Bolsheviks into power.

Joseph Stalin was in power for 30 years. He was in command of the Soviet Union from April 3, 1922 to October 16, 1952. His official title was, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.