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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.
1,367 Questions
What were Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt roles in world war 2?
They were all leaders of their respective countries during WW2
What health problem did Stalin have?
Stalin suffered a stroke, which was fatal, in 1953. He also had permanant injuries to his arms from a crash.
Joseph Stalin's economic policies?
Joseph Stalin had three economic policies. The policies are as follows: Socialism, the Five Year Plans, and the Collectivization of Agriculture.
What was Stalin's relationship to Leon Trotsky?
Stalin and Trotsky were among the top leaders of the Bolshevik Party after the Revolution and Civil War. They disliked one another intensely and had conflicting opinions on how to run the country after the revolution. Trotsky favored spreading communism to all countries as Marx and Lenin had envisioned. Stalin felt that they should establish communism firmly in one country first then move from there. Stalin also disliked Trotsky because he was Jewish and had only recently joined the Bolshevik Party.
After Lenin died in 1924, the two vied for control of the Communist Party and the country with Stalin winning and expelling Trotsky first from the Communist Party then from the country. In 1940, Trotsky was living in Mexico in exile and Stalin had an undercover agent assassinate him.
What effect did the five year plan have on daily life?
Detailed information depends on which installment of the five year plan being discussed. However, the ideology behind each installment was to help rebuild failing segments of society. In the long run, the five year plans were successful and helped to end the food rationings.
Name of Joseph Stalin's doctrine?
Communist government, Communism.
Stalin's doctrine was dubbed "Stalinism" for obvious reasons.
Are there any Gulags still active?
yes and no, gulags are no longer used for labor camps such as they were durning WW2 but they are still used as historic sites and miltary camps
Was Joseph Stalin nicknamed Koba?
Koba was a nickname for Joseph Stalin. It was a name used only by his closest associates. He also was called "Soso."
Who were some important people in the Bolshevik Revolution?
Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev on the Bolshevik side.
Alexander Kerensky on the Provisional Government side.
Tsar Nicholas II doesn't really count, because he had been deposed in February, so he was out of the picture already.
What is the use of five year plans?
It depends on what your aims are.
A five year plan is a medium term plan or strategy a country or a company might make out.
It sets out your goals and how you intend to achieve them.
Did Stalin die for collectivism?
No. Stalin's death is disputed. It may have been a stroke, but scientists recently found rat poison in his system so tehre is a very approved and lively theory of assasination from a man named Lavrenty Beria. The poison causes strokes.
Either way collectivism had no direct effect on Stalins death.
Who initiated the First Five-Year Plan?
Joseph Stalin initiated the first Five Year Plan in 1928. At the same time he scrapped Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy. Stalin went on to institute additional such plans.
What were the positive and negative effects of the Five-Year Plans?
The positive effect of the five year plans was a rapid and complete industrialization that made the Soviet Union second only to the USA in industrial development. Another positive effect was the fact that if the USSR had not industrialized the way it did it would not have been able to drive the Nazis all the way back to Berlin During WWII. However, the five year plans also brought on mass purges in with millions were murdered.
A class of Russian landholder formed from peasants who were able to obtain land because of the 1906 agrarian reforms, the Kulaks were opposed to Stalin's policy of collectivization and liquidated en masse in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Up to ten million may have died.
What was Joseph Stalin sexual orientation?
"I am not gay, i just like men,"~ Joseph Stalin
Yes, he was
While history has told the world who were the victims of the Stalin purges that began in 1934 and peaked in the terrors of 1937 through to 1938, Stalin's motives have never been clear. The narrative of the "why" follows the tired reason that disloyal communists had to be weeded out of the party. His greatest enemy, Trotsky was already "out of the picture" and other communists such as Kamenev and Zinoviev had been marginalized and given minor Party positions.Also, it was clear that Stalin had the support of the many party members that had no quarrel with Stalin's leadership. Stalin's propaganda line was that the "enemies of the people", needed to be purged from the Party, yet based on the writings of Nikita Khrushchev, the magnitude of the purges, were in his mind, surprising and without a true logical reason.
With that said, many historians remove the political threat to Stalin from within as a causal factor.
What remains is the psychological one. Here we have a dictator in total control of the largest nation in the world, (for this argument China is left out ) yet he clearly did not feel secure.
A comparison between the situation of Stalin might be compared to the new head of a large "mafia" organization. In order to "prevent" a challenge, the mafia chief and the political dictator, takes extraordinary steps to prevent any feature problems with by:
1. Eliminating real or imagined threats; and
2. Using the mass executions to discourage unforeseen future threats.
In a nation the size of the USSR in the 1930's, Stalin's purges were a risky step. As with the Czars, their repressions only created more dissenters. Stalin understood the risks and thus was willing to use extreme force to deal with any new dissent his purges created.
If the above was not the case, then the only other explanation was that he was mentally impaired.
It took skill to rise among the other to his place of power. And it took skill for Hitler to do the same.
Each man clearly was crafty and intelligent. Hitler had a psychological problem, and few disagree, and it can be argued that Stalin had a similar problem.
What was the purpose of the five year plans?
The purpose was to promote economic development by rapidly industrializing the Soviet economy in order to turn it into an industry based one as opposed to an agricultural based one. There also were provisions for increasing agricultural output by the collectivization of individually operated farms.
The industrialization was successful, but the collectivization did not increase output as much as was hoped. In fact, thousands upon thousands of peasant farmer starved to death because their grain was confiscated and used to fund the industrialization part of the plans.
to industrialise russia. the 1st FYP was focused on heavy industry. 2nd also on heavy industry. 3rd swaped to war weapons and war equipment. thiis however was stopped before the 5 years were up due to the start of ww2.
When Stalin was ruling in Russia, he put to work two five year plans to industrialize the, then know as, industrially backward Russia. The first one(1928) was completed in four year, the second one was not as successful.
What does five year plan mean?
The five Year Plan (FYP) builds upon existing strategies to delineate key goals, objectives, and tasks aimed at improving an institution, government, or organization.
However, many organizations such as Educational facilities, corporations, hospitals, businesses, unions, societies, and clubs utilize the FYP to meet a set of goals and desired outcomes. See the Related Link below.
Marx would have approved of communism in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin?
I really don't think so. Russia never reached the stage of capitalism and we're talking 50-100 years here(could be less). Marx believed in the transformation of capitalism to socialism when it has reached it's height and then to communism.
