Joseph Stalin

I partialy quote from Caroline Johnson, Foothill College: "It was Stalin's plan to claim neutrality. His idea was that if all the countries of the world went to war with Germany, by the end of the war, each would become financially and politically exhausted. Russia, having been at peace the entire time, would inevitably rise as the greatest power in the world and dominate above capitalism. However, even Stalin could not ignore Hitler's advances into the USSR and other parts of Europe - the Nazi plan of domination intimidated and threatened that of Stalin's. It was then that Russia became involved in the war. Entrance into the war had many advantages for Russia: it would obviously defend the USSR from Hitler's dominance and it gave Russia the opportunity to take over all of the land in the East that the Nazi's had invaded. This action not only defeated Hitler and his intentions, but it placed Russia in a powerful position in these lands. It is here that Stalin's plan begin to thoroughly develop."

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, also known as Joseph Stalin, was born Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili in what is now known as the country of Georgia. The ideas that he championed were authoritarian government, communism, and anti-Semitism. He also believed that rule by terror was the only way to keep the citizens of a country in line.

Stalin did not kill his family. His father and mother died of natural causes.

His first wife died of typhus. His second wife committed suicide. His eldest son, Yakov, committed virtual suicide by deliberately running at the fence while in a German prisoner of war camp so that the guards would shoot him. They didn't miss. (Stalin had already refused to exchange him for German prisoners of war telling the Germans he had no son by that name.)

His next eldest son, Vasily, and daughter, Svetlana, survived him.

Ironically, Stalin had signed a decree to the effect that all Russian soldiers who allowed themselves to be taken prisoner were to be considered traitors and enemies of the state. They and their entire families were subject to exile, imprisonment or execution. Joseph Stalin was therefore, by his own decree, legally subject to execution for treason when his son was taken prisoner.

He was elected president in 2000, re-elected in 2004, and ran again successfully in 2012.

Vladimir Putin was Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and officially elected to the office of president in 2000, becoming Russia's second president (after Boris Yeltsin). He was re-elected in a landslide vote in March of 2004, with 69 percent of the vote.

He was term-limited from seeking the office in 2008, and was elected instead to the position of Prime Minister, effectively changing branches with his cohort Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Prime Minister, being elected President in his stead. Putin thereby retained control of the government, as well as heading his political party. He was able to run for President again in 2012 (term limits are not permanent), when he was elected as 4th President and Medvedev was elected Prime Minister.

A policy he instituted was atheism. He supported communism and collectivism.

The cult of Lenin made Stalin look like Lenin's successor. Stalin forged pictures of himself and Lenin, which made them look like comrades, when in fact Lenin couldn't stand Stalin, as he revealed in his Testament. By exploiting his supposed relationship with Lenin Stalin was able to gather support, as Lenin was loved throughout Russia. One of the major vents involving Stalin's manipulation of his relationship with Lenin was at Lenin's funeral. lenin had wanted a small, quiet funeral, however Stalin had made it into a big public affair. Stalin had the proceeded to persuade Trotsky, his biggest competitor in the power struggle, to not come. This made Stalin look really good and Trotsky really bad.

Depends on the goal. He achieved many through violence and he even had his own quote: "Every problem can be solved by violence- no man, no problem.".

He solved others by simple perserverance, and a variety of techniques that made him both a capable leader and a tyrant at the same time.

Under stalin the farms were collectivized. In the early 1930's over 91% of agricultural land was collectivized as rural households entered collective farms with their lands, livestock and other assets.

Nothing much. He was either on the way to another exile or escaping it. As much as he could, he carried on his revolutionary activities.

Stalin was conscripted by the Russian army to fight in World War 1, but was deemed unfit for service because of his damaged left arm.

The major goal of Stalin was to consolidate all power in his own hands. He attempted this by surrounding himself with loyal associates and by getting rid of all his political opponents.

The methods he used were typical of ruthless dictators. He used physical force and political methods. Opponents were declared enemies of communism and jailed or executed. Many were banished to Siberian prisons. He even ordered the extermination of large groups of people in Russia, like the wealthy class of peasants. Fear was the main tactic Stalin used to remain in power cause his surrounding consisted mainly of Jewish agents.

Lenin already created the USSR; Stalin inherited the leadership upon Lenin's death. He wanted it because it was a way of making everyone equal in his mind, but the workers were not being payed enough to live on so they revolted and Stalin killed all of them and 60 million people who opposed communism.

No he did not.

In December, 1916, while was serving a 4 year sentence of exile in northern Siberia, he and some other revolutionaries were ordered to take physical exams for possible conscription into the Russian army. He was deemed unfit for service because an old injury to his right arm had left it with some permanent damage.

Joseph Stalin was nominated for the Noble Peace Prize. though he did not win that he won many other awards Hero of Socialist Labor, Order of Victory, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Sukhbaatar, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic, Order of the Red Star, and Czechoslovak War Cross, he won many of these multiple times and also won many other medals.

It was a time when the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, had a mass killing of everyone that was even suspected to be a communist, have communist ideas, or just plain not being loyal.

Stalin spoke Georgian as his mother tongue as he was from Georgia. He also spoke Russian but it was with a Georgian accent.

There is no number confirmation on how many people Joseph Kony has killed, but he has forced thousands of kids to kill lots of people.

A three-letter word that is associated with Russia or the USSR, you’re almost certain to hear KGB – short for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti – or the Committee of State Security.

By the time the KGB got its name and became autonomous in 1954, it was already a stong force, protecting the Soviet state from internal and external threats as well as gathering intelligence worldwide.

The KGB was disbanded in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia’s former president – now prime-minister – Vladimir Putin was a KGB officer in Soviet times

Internal factors to be considered would be the company and how it will be changing in the next five years, how much money they will have, and what kind of staff training is available. External factors might be the climate of the economy.

Stalin was a far-left communist by today's standards, his party was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The government was secular to the point of atheistic, and openly persecuted those who held religious beliefs. There were mass purges to kill those who held belief in God, and the Soviet Union under Stalin began with the USSR Anti-Religious Campaign of 1928-41 designed to spread atheism and stamp out Christianity. Communism under Stalin abandoned what market-based reforms had been implemented under Lenin in favor of a government takeover of all industry. The defining influence for all of this was the secular thinking originating from Germany for the past century, see Karl Marx, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Kautsky, Herbert Marcuse, Baron d'Holbach, etc.

The Soviet Union was intended as an extremely liberal communist state, where all citizens would share equal power and ownership over the nation, but that all changed when Stalin took power. Stalin was INSANE; a clinical sociopath with a level of paranoia exceeding post 9/11 New York. His lust for power and instability were so well known that Lenin said in the first drafts of his will that Stalin should NEVER be allowed to take power. Unfortunately Stalin was a much better politician than his rival, Trotskey, and forces Lenin to endorse him. As soon as he took power, Stalin began routing all the reigns of power through his office, reducing the party congress to a more symbolic role. By 1940, Stalin was an absolute dictator.

Stalinism is what happens when a bloodthirsty lunatic gains control over a communist nation.

Positive - emergence of middle class, women could do male jobs in the industry, better education which gave Russia their own skilled technicians, positives of collectivisation for peasants was that poorer peasants now got shared profits, food rationing during the five year plan meant everyone would have something to eat.

Negatives - Collectivisation caused many skilled worker to be purged during the "de-kulakisation" of skilled peasants who disagreed with collective farms. They neglected fields which later caused the Great Famine where millions starved. Stalin's harsh policies meant if people did not meet quotas they would be purged which lead workers to lie about how much was being produced - they were not leaving enough for themselves. It also meant long working hours with little food. The purges seriously affected the Army as the most important Generals had been killed meaning the Army was unorganised. Many great composers left Russia by 1917 during the Cult of Personality and emergence of "Socialist Realism". Industrialisation neglected consumer goods which left many shops empty.

He greatly affected history for the USSR, employing many tactics of communism of maintaining order and power by use of extreme force. He killed millions. Stalin helped sway the tide of World War 2, and was quite possibly responsible for the Allied victory.

Stalin started the Cold War which forever altered the modern world. Sadly, his influence took a blow when his successor Nikita Khruschev massively "De-

Stalinized" the USSR, reversing many of his effects on the Soviet Union.