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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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False. Most people would say True, because Vladimir Lenin had orchestrated the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 (November New Style) and then won the Russian Civil War before Stalin came to power. The fact is that "communism" as Karl Marx predicted it has never been established in any country. Lenin established socialism after the Revolution and Stalin continued socialism after Lenin was dead. And it was a miserable excuse of socialism at that. Lenin's brand of socialism wasn't true Marxian socialism either. Stalin only made it worse.
But something had already been established before Stalin came to power. It just wasn't communism.
Stalin's series of three Five Year Plans was intended to rapidly increase the industrial capability of the Soviet Union. They also included provisions for increasing agricultural production as well, but these goals were not met as successfully as those for industrialization.
Joseph Stalin
Which soviet leader stayed in power longer than the other leaders?
Joseph Stalin, who was in power from 1924 until his death in 1953, was the soviet leader who stayed in power the longest.
After World War 2 what kind of government did Stalin install?
Stalin did not install a new type of government after World War 2. After the Russian Revolution, Russia became a government by party, the Communist Party, but he was the acknowledged leader and most people deferred to his wishes.
After Lenin died, Stalin maintained the government by party form although gradually he took over just about sole power by the mid 1930s. That was mostly because he put his friends in all the high places and they would do whatever he said either out of loyalty to him or fear of being arrested and shot.
After World War 2, Stalin was at the height of his power and was a virtual dictator, but no new government was installed.
Gulag refers to vast system of labour camps which was created in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
What extent did the gulgag fulfill Stalins goals?
the gulgags gave Stalin a place to dump all of his " unwanted" peoples like political prisoners, senior Nazis, certain ethnic groups etc., so in a sense they did what they were supposed to do, but there are stories of people with outside connections being able to easily bribe the guards, so they were not a good lace for high profile prisoners.
Stalin scrapped Lenin's New Economic Policy and replaced it with a series of Five Year Plans. They were designed to increase the industrial capacity of the Soviet Union to catch up to that of the western world. The first one was instituted in 1928, exceeded its five year goal withing four years and a second plan was started.
In a speech on February 4, 1931, he stated:
"We have fallen behind the advanced countries by fifty to a hundred years. We must close that gap in ten years. Either we do this or we'll be crushed."
How did Stalin improve living conditions in the US?
He was ruler of the opposite nation the USSR get it right
What did Joseph Stalin do while in power?
Stalin introduced Five-year plans that led to rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union. At the same time he collectivized agriculture by converting individual farms into huge and often ineffective collective farms. This caused or contributed to massive famine and deaths.
He created and promoted the cult of personality (his), where state media credited him personally with every Soviet achievement (though never failures), and people thought of him as their personal protector and benefactor, thanking him profusely in speeches for his wisdom and generosity.
He caused deaths of many millions of his own people by conducting purges of real and perceived enemies of the sate. In the process, he created a massive free labor force of convicts, which in part explains his successes in industrialization.
He he strengthened the Communist Party's monopoly on power and ideology, creating a totalitarian regime.
Crimes against humanity namely genocide.
