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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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Where did Joseph Stalin go school?
Gori Church School, and he was a good student to. His move to form a collective agricultural structure. Despite his health problems, he made good progress at school and eventually won everything he do.
Stalin went to the Gori (his birthplace) Spiritual School then to the Tiflis Spiritual Seminary.
What human rights did Joseph Stalin take away?
Joseph Stalin repressed opposing political parties during his reign in the Soviet Union by bringing false criminal charges against his political opponents and having them exterminated. Stalin is also responsible for violating Ethnic-Russian rights to own property and land by having them removed from their homes and sent to designated camps or prisons.
What did Stalin do for Russia?
- He defended the USSR from takeover by Nazi Germany.
- He industrialized the USRR.
- He made employment for many more people that had previously been un-able to find jobs.
- He turned the USSR into a military power-house.
- He turned the USSR into an industrial power-house.
- He started the Soviet space program.
How did the worldwide depression help Joseph Stalin?
Joseph Stalin's version of helping during the Great Depression was to institute a planned economy and totalitarian communism in the Soviet Union. He took control over small peasant farms, sending millions of peasants to Siberia to work in labor camps and then obtained the farms' products for very low prices.
How did farmers resist Stalin?
When Russia's wealth peasants held back produce in 1928, he deported and killed them. Their assets including their farm machinery and animals were taken to the cooperative.
Gori, Georgia
He was from the small town of Gori, Georgia, which was not part of Russia itself. It had been a separate state that was annexed by Russia into its empire. Georgians were a separate culture from the Russians. They had their own language and alphabet. Stalin had to learn the Russian language after growing up with the Georgian language and always spoke Russian with a thick Georgian accent.
In fact, one of the reasons he adopted the name Stalin in place of his native last name of Dzhughashvili was so it would sound more Russian than Georgian. That way he would be more acceptable among the mostly Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries.
What position was Joseph Stalin given in 1922?
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
What role did Joseph Stalin play in WW2?
He helped industrialize Russia; before Hitler attacked. He brought a third front to germany's sides and ultimately helped us win the war ( or much faster) against nazi germany. Also at the end of World War 2 he brought the iron curtain over east berlin which resulted in i.e. cold war, Korea's split, Communism's spread, china and north korea and vietnam are still communism today also
Did Joseph Stalin have any animals cats dogs etc?
Yes, when he was exiled to Siberia he had a husky, and she was pretty much his only company. I forgot her name though.
How did Joseph Stalin become a famous dictator?
He twisted the ideology of Marxism/Leninism to fit his own personal greed, and assassinated his former Bolshevik comrades who all realized that he had betrayed the revolution. He also created a "Cult of Personality" through excessive propaganda while the nation was developing methods of communication, therefore the first voice many peasants heard over the radio was Stalin's. He maintained a police state focused on silencing all forms of dissent, and altered pictures and historical documents, cutting all other revolutionaries out of Soviet history until it was just him and Lenin, the only man he could not deny existence of to the public.
Why did Khrushchev denounce Stalinism?
He didn't denounce Stalin. In fact he was one of the most strident cold war Soviet premiers of his time. He went to the United nations and pounded his fists and shoe on the podium yelling when a they voted against Russia. He put the missiles in Cuba creating the Cuba Missile crisis and a 60 year boycott of Cuba. No, he was a long standing Soviet communist party member and had fought in WW2. He wouldn't have dared to denounce Stalin.
Why did Soviets follow Stalin so eagerly despite his atrocities?
Bc he manipulated information to create a false image of himself being a good leader - APEX
Which of the methods of control do you think was most influential in maintaining Stalin power?
I would say Stalin's use of fear and killing off his "enemies" within the governmental structure was his most influential way to maintain his power. Why? Because no one was about to go against Stalin when he would kill at will. He criticized the Germans for killing 20 million Russian people but he was such a hypocrite to say that. He himself had 2 million Russians killed for his own personal reasons (most of which stemmed from his psychosis of thinking everyone was his enemy).
That is why the Generals and Politburo did not kill Stalin. They were afraid to try anything against him.
What did Stalin do at the meeting in postsdam that alarmed president Truman?
Truman was always suspicious of communists. It was when Stalin objected to Winston Churchill's proposal for the Allied forces to withdraw from Iran that Truman became more alarmed.
Why did Stalin refuse aid from the us-sponsored marshall plan?
Since the Cold War was, in a sense, a huge competition between the Communist economic system and the free market economic system, it would not look good if a communist system accepted help from a free market system. A superior system does not need the help of an inferior system. (Incidentally, you are talking about the Marshall, not Marchall Plan.)
It was the year he died. By then, he was pretty much busy being sick, so he did not do much else.
Why were the kulaks important?
The kulaks were a class of farmers who started out as peasants, but became successful and wealthy, developing their own little system of capitalism. Stalin was not about to allow any sort of capitalism to take root in Russia, so he had them all killed.
Describe Stalin's great purge?
the great purge was when stalin killed anyone in his way. or any potential threat to his rule. the purge started off with members of the communist party at first, and went on to other people. stalin killed about 20 million people during the purge.
What are 10 facts about Joseph Stalin?
Stalin lived to be 65 years old and had 2 weddings
Some interesting facts about Joseph Stalin are:
- He was only 5'5" tall.
- His face was heavily scarred from childhood smallpox and had all official photos of him airbrushed so they would not show.
- He was disqualified for service in the Tsarist army in World War 1 because of a childhood injury that permanently weakened his left arm.
- His mother wanted him to be a priest so he went to the seminary. His father wanted him to be a shoemaker so he did some work with his father. His mother won, but not for long. He was kicked out of the seminary for revolutionary activities.
- He sent a wreath to his mother's funeral.
- He shaved Lenin's beard and mustache off when Lenin had to go into hiding in Finland in July 1917.
- Stalin pulled off bank robberies to help fund Bolshevik activities.
- He was suspected by other revolutionaries of being a secret agent for the Tsarist police, the Okhrana, because he kept getting off pretty lightly when he was arrested now and then.
- His birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili
- At the age of seven, he contracted smallpox, which permanently scarred his face
- Stalin's first child, Yakov, died of typhus in 1907
- Stalin was conscripted by the Russian army to fight in World War I, but was deemed unfit for service because of his damaged left arm
- At sixteen, he received a scholarship to a Georgian Orthodox seminary
- Twice while in the Parish School he was struck by vehicles: the first time "playing chicken" with other boys in the street and the second time run over in the church yard while waiting for choir practice, breaking both legs this time. This cost him more than a year of school recovering and the bones never completely set right.
- He acquired over time the following nicknames: Soso(short form of the Georgian for Josef, Soselo), Poxy(Chopura, because he was scarred from smallpox as a young child), Crimped (Gera, see item 1 above). Koba(meaning "the indomitable" in Turkish, a nickname he gave himself).
- He was considered a good student (when he was actually in school) and had an excellent alto singing voice.
- He went to seminary to become a Russian Orthodox Priest, and got kicked out for possession of forbidden literature and other infractions.
- His only paying job before taking control of the USSR was as a meteorologist in the Tiflis Meteorological Observatory. His duties were to record the temperature and barometric pressure every hour, as well as shoveling snow in the winter and sweeping in the summer. But it only lasted just under 16 months before police raids on the observatory (looking for political agitators and forbidden literature) forced him to move on.
- During the failed 1905-1906 revolution he helped fund the revolution as a bank robber.
- He was drafted for the Russian Army during WW1, but was rejected due to physical disabilities (see item 1 above). To travel from the Siberian prison camp he was in at the time to the draft office over 100 miles away and back to the Siberian prison camp, he rode in a sleigh pulled by reindeer.
- He spent the entire period of the 1917-1918 revolution idle in a Siberian prison camp.
What bad stuff did joseph Stalin do?
Collecting the agricultural goods from Ukraine (althought benefiting to other parts of the USSR), greatly hurt Stalin's support in the region.
Starting the Cold War eventually led to the USSR having massive financial problems.
What were Stalin method of keeping power?
Joseph Stalin used many methods to retain power. He used fear and propaganda.
Fear, through the Great Purges he created a society where people would inform the government of traitors.
Propaganda, there were posters throughout villages, propaganda films and artwork produced in Socialist Realism style.
What happened to Joseph Stalin?
The downfall of Joseph Stalin was when he died in 1953. Stalin remained in power until his death.
Stalin had no belief in any religion. He was an atheist but he made no pronouncements about what religion was. It was Karl Marx who wrote that religion was the opium of the people. This meant that religion was used by one social class to oppress the other by making it conform to certain types of behavior for reasons that could not be questioned because they had to be taken on faith.
