Joseph Stalin

He had sole power for 21 years. However, he was a lead politic for at least another 8 years.

Yes. In fact, he exceeded expectations with his good organising and morale-raising skills.

He was brought down by the invincible team of Lee and Jackson at their greatest battle, Chancellorsville, when Lee displayed to the full his gift for wrong-footing the enemy. Hooker was indeed wrong-footed and disoriented, and Jackson took advantage of this to launch a wild charge that took the Union army completely by surprise. Even though Jackson was killed later in the battle, it was felt necessary in Washington to replace Hooker, and he had to relinquish command just a few days before Gettysburg.

Stalin's and Marx's ideas of communism were radically different from one another. Stalin's communism consisted of a totalitarian government to control the means of production and exploit the citizens of the country. Marx believed communism would have no government at all; that the means of production would be administered by all and no one would be exploited. Stalin believed in first making a successful and stable communist regime in one country (Russia) first, then spreading it to other countries. Marx believed that communism could not exist in a single country surrounded by capitalist countries.

Stalin's "communism" was just a political dictatorship rather than Marx's societal evolution of one type of society (capitalist) into another (socialist/communist).

Stalin's government told people what to make, and what jobs to do.

Stalin created an elite class of leaders.

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The women did the mens jobs, because the men had all gone to fight in WWl. They had to take over and do the mens work in the factories and on the farms.

Joseph Stalin had several physical deformities, including a limp resulting from a childhood injury caused by smallpox, which left him with scars on his face. He also had a pronounced facial asymmetry, with one side of his face appearing more prominent than the other. Additionally, he was known to have a receding hairline and a stocky build, contributing to his distinctive appearance. These features, combined with his intense demeanor, contributed to his imposing presence.

Stalin's response to the Berlin Airlift, which began in June 1948, was to maintain the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, cutting off all ground access to the city in an attempt to force the Allies to abandon their plans for a separate West German state. He underestimated the resolve of the United States and its allies, who responded by airlifting supplies to the city for nearly a year. The blockade ultimately failed, highlighting the division of East and West and solidifying the Cold War tensions. In May 1949, Stalin lifted the blockade, but the episode deepened the rift between the Eastern and Western blocs.

Stalin used Marxism to justify his system of organized inequality by claiming that a hierarchical society was necessary in order to achieve a more advanced socialist state. He argued that inequality was a temporary stage on the path to achieving communism, where all social classes would eventually be eliminated. By centralizing power and resources and controlling the means of production, Stalin believed he was advancing Marxist principles for the ultimate benefit of the proletariat.

Stalin's chief political rival in the 1920s was Leon Trotsky. Trotsky, a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Red Army's founder, advocated for a theory of permanent revolution, which contrasted with Stalin's focus on "socialism in one country." Their ideological differences, combined with Stalin's political maneuvering and alliances within the Communist Party, ultimately led to Trotsky's expulsion from the party and his exile from the Soviet Union.

Stalin was rough and crude. Stalin tried to create a myth that he was the contry's father and savior. Stalin glorified himself as the symbol of the nation. He encourage people to think of him as "the greates genius of all times and peoples." Many towns, factories, and street in the soviet union were named for stalin.

oh wow I am Russian myself so that is close.... Joseph Stalin was a horrible tyrant and ruler of Russia who overthrew Trotsky when he was battling with him for power. There were a lot of deaths of just peaceful citizens and the aristocrats definetly didn't like it. The workers got much more power to be equal, but.... They were scared of each other and Stalin, they believed everything he did was right and they thought of him as god. Stalin wanted to make a utopia without "the enemies of the people", but that didn't work out. Have you read Animal FArm? if so, think of Napoleon the pig. GOOD LUCK :)