Joseph Stalin

Stalin had executed more than one half of his senior commanders by 1938. This death of what Stalin called traitors of Russia and the Revolution, left the Red Army without adequate leadership.

Leon Trotsky was not the leader of the USSR because he was exiled from the country (but first the Communist Party) by Joseph Stalin. Stalin used a divide and conquer strategy, allying himself with other political figures to outnumber Trotsky.

I wouldn’t call it an ideology, but Socialism (classless stateless society based on production for use) is the opposite of the state capitalist dictatorship that Stalin presided over.

yes they did the one of the things that they used was i think a pungy stick. These were hidden in to deep holes that were covered over with leaves etc. To make things wore the ends of these sticks would be covered in scxcrement so that the victim would get a very bad infection.

They were all politicians and were the leaders of their respective countries.

Becuase he expanded his empire and built the greatest empire India has every seen!

In prison he adopted the name Stalin which translated as "Man of Steel". He felt that it would be good for his image and would make him sound more Russian than Georgian. Georgians were not considered to be Russians and the name Dzhughashvili was definitely not a Russian name.

His parents names are (father:) Antoine Gay (mother:) Leonarde Bouriquet

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Stalin's Five Year Plan did not "resemble" a command economy; it WAS a command economy. A command economy is when the central government determines how much production will occur (instead of allowing businesses to produce at their own levels). The Five Year Plan was an explicit set of quotas by Stalin as to how much production (mostly agricultural) would occur in the next five years, setting a level of production which was unreasonable.

" In May, 1899, Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Several reasons were given for this action including disrespect for those in authority and reading forbidden books. Stalin was later to claim that the real reason was that he had been trying to convert his fellow students to Marxism."

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Stalin did not keep his promise to hold elections in eastern Europe.

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I think President will approve it ...b/c he is the chairman of the Planning Commision.

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One can understand the five-year plans by understanding the Russian history of XX century decade by decade:

1917 - Economical and political collapse, revolution.

1920 - 1930 Civil war, economy ruined, New Economic Policy introduced and cancelled, Stalin suggests that capitalist economy has to be restricted in favor for communist economy. USSR loses war against Poland.

1930-1940 USSR surpasses Nazi Germany in industry and equals in weaponry.

In 1941 the Red Army is almost totally destroyed, yet the industrial might allows to build an entirely new army and compensate the lack of experience with quantity of weaponry. Soviet military production in 1940s can be compared to that of the United States. This is result of colossal scale of industrialisation in the 1930s.

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

* Born: 7 November 1879

* Birthplace: Yanovka, Ukraine

* Died: 21 August 1940 (assassination by ice axe)

* Best Known As: V.I. Lenin's right-hand man

Name at birth: Lev Davidovich Bronstein

A key figure in the creation of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky was later unseated and expelled by the ruthless Joseph Stalin. As a young man Trotsky became a disciple of Karl Marx and a friend of future Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin. A powerful writer and political thinker, Trotsky used his pen to oppose the rule of Czar Nicholas II and so spent much of his adult life in prison or in foreign exile, writing for communist newspapers and journals. He was Lenin's right-hand man in the Russian Revolution of 1917; Trotsky became commissar of war (1918-25) and organized the victorious Red Army in the civil war that followed. After the formation of the Soviet Union and then Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky lost out in a power struggle with Stalin; he was exiled to Kazakhstan in 1927 and expelled to Turkey in 1929. In 1937 Trotsky settled in Mexico at the behest of artist Diego Rivera. He was assassinated at his villa in 1940 by a probable agent of Stalin, Ramon Mercader, who posed as a friend of Trotsky's and then killed him with the blow of an ice axe to his head.

He used the name Leon Trotsky while escaping from Russian prison in Siberia in 1902, and kept the name for the rest of his life... Trotsky was played by Richard Burton in The Assassination of Leon Trotsky (1972) and by Geoffrey Rush in Frida, the 2002 film about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (she was married to Diego Rivera)... Trotsky was represented by Snowball the pig in George Orwell's allegorical 1945 novel Animal Farm... Trotsky was born on 26 October in the old Julian calendar; the Soviet Union made the switch to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, and Trotsky was born on 7 November in that reckoning. He got the name Trotsky from a café named Trotsky's in Russia due to the café used to be where he and his associates used to go to plan and talk. This is true and valid information as i am a distant family member of Leon through my grandmothers side and the owner of the café is the grandfather of one of my close family friends.

Source: Answers.com His connections with some of the leading anarchist magazines and their editors. One editor being Lenin who was the leader of the Bolsheviks that eventually gained full power over the USSR.

Mostly yes but he did save the USSR from German occupation in WW 2. He killed 20 million Russian citizens when he tried to make a canal in moscow in the 20's. And during WW 2 he gave quotes like.. "not one step backwards!" and "The soviet soil will not be occupied until every last Russian blood has droped!" meaning that he just through the Russian citizens into the army and told them to fight for there country with some not even having guns. which led to a slaughter, 27 million Russians died during WW 2 which is more then half of the European casualties in all and the most casualties in WW 2.

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Although Lenin and Stalin were very different they still had some similarities. When Lenin gained rule, the first couple of years, all he yearned for was to put down the civil war. He wanted to help and repair both the state and economy after it was basically destroyed after World War 1, both revolutions, and the long, hard years of the civil war. He tried to accomplish this by doing many things, and started with the government. First they came up with something called the Supreme Soviet which gave all the citizens 18 and older, the right to vote. This helped because it allowed more people to be involved and gave people an opportunity to put their input. Also, Lenin tried to create a new government which brought a lot of the old Russian Empire in the Soviet Union together. He was able to succeed in some things, but after he retreated from policy of war communism, this almost brought down the entire economy to an end. After this, things began to go in the opposite direction. Peasants refused to work and factories and mines outputs had dropped. But he was able to fix the problems by compromising with capitalism which assisted the soviet economy to recover. That being said, the lifestyle of the people improved. Unfortunately, in the year 1924 Lenin passed away suddenly. After this, Stalin decided to take over. Before Lenin's death, he did speak his mind about Stalin. He described him as rude and not a good leader. Stalin was a sharp political operator. After becoming the general secretary of a communist party, he decided to take advantage of that position by forming a group of communist officials. He wanted to focus his time on building socialism at home. Stalin was a very violent leader though. Trotsky, who also wanted to be leader but lost to Stalin, fled after being isolated by Stalin. Stalin then sent one of his agents to murder him, and Trotsky was killed. This shows that he was a violent leader. Another one of Stalin's aims was to make the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power. In order to help his wishes to be granted, he came up with something called the five-year plan. This was meant to build a strong industry and to have transportation progress. Later he decided to put everything under government rule. Things did begin to progress but still economy was bad, and wages were low. The food was scarce and workers had little to show for their sacrifices. Stalin killed thousands of peasants after they refused collectivization. They killed animals, destroyed tools, and burned the crops and in return Stalin either sent people to murder them or had them die from overworking. But still Stalin was not satisfied. He feared that rival parties were plotting against him, and to take care of that he created the purge. Although the purge increased his power, it hurt his army which he paid for later when Germany attacked.

Seeing this, it is easy to conclude that Stalin and Lenin were different but similar at the same time. They were similar for many different reasons. Both Lenin and Stalin were communist rulers of Russia. They both had favored communism and had everything to be government related. They also both practiced undemocratic strategies in order govern the nation. They both wished to have a socialist state and they both aimed to rebuild Russia and were marked by civil war. They both aimed and concentrated greatly to improve the economic system of Russia and tried to make it progress everyday such as the NEP, the New Economic Policy which was by Lenin, and the command economy which was by Stalin. And lastly, they both had good intentions, which was to make Russia the best it could be. So yes they did have similarities but yet they were so different. What was most different between Lenin and Stalin was the way they dealt with situations and they're mentality. This includes war tactics and etc. Lenin first off, did not like Stalin at all and made that clear before he passed away. He said that he had doubts about Stalin's "ambitious nature". Lenin thinks that although Stalin was sharp, he only focused on maintaining a lot of power and was not sure that he was able to use it sufficiently. He also did not think that Stalin was tolerable, loyal, polite, or considerate. The mentality that Stalin uses when he rules was much more different than the mentality that Lenin uses. Stalin uses fear and propaganda to scare the people into following his rules and listening to what he says. He also did not give the people that much freedom such as forcing them to be atheist, and punishing them with cruel punishments. Lenin on the other hand was more considerate, and liked to hear what the people had to say. This is why he supported the Soviet Supreme in which anyone 18 and or older was able to vote and express their opinion to the public. Stalin's rue was marked by cruelty and way and Lenin's was marked with good intentions. Lenin instituted many reforms such as a socialist state and gave peasants land. Stalin did not care for the peasants, and when the peasant upset him he killed thousands and thousands of them. Stalin's motives were different than Lenin's. Stalin had a more socialist perspective on rebuilding the nation, and his tactics on rulings were different than Lenin's as well. Also, Stalin did not have a guilty conscience at all. Lenin had more democratic point of views. Stalin, however, was more of a totalitarian. People described Stalin as more of a dictator because of the way he handled situations. He was very violent and rude, and when he was worried of things not going his way, he handled them in a violent manner and many of the situations with Trotsky, the peasants, and the purge. Although Stalin and Lenin were similar as to their goals as leaders, they were very different when it came to their personalities and who hey dealt with situations.

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