Joseph Stalin

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.

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Lenin established a mixture of capitalism and free enterprise, allows some small factories and business to be privately owned; Stalin developed command economy that controlled every aspect of economic life and banned private ownership of farms, factories, and businesses. Lenin's government that took the land back and kept it under state control. Both governments were dictatorships Lenin interfered much less in the daily lives of the citizens. Life under Lenin involved less terror and oppression than life under more plentiful this progress came at a huge cost to the peasants forced to work on collective farms and to the Kulaks who were murdered or shipped to Siberia.

He was a dictator and tyrant. He had a secret police service, the NKVD, who repressed Stalin's political oppositions and would 'deal' with those who spoke against him.

To highlight the ruthlessness of the NKVD, Adolf Hitler was inspired to create the Gestapo from seeing the NKVD during his visit to Russia.

To conclude, mainly scare tactics

Stalin's rise to power in Soviet Russia is hard to date. He wasn't the head of state until 1941, but he was general secretary of the communist party from 1922, and de facto leader from the late 1920s.

The British monarch throughout the 1920s was George V, he died in 1936 and was succeded by his son Edward VIII. Edward abdicated before his coronation in favour of his brother George VI. George VI died in 1952 and was succeded by his daughter Elizabeth II. Stalin Died in October 1952, before Elizabeth II's coronation, but after she ascended the throne.

After Nazi Germany's attach on the Soviet Union in 1941, Joseph Stalin revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort.

The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labor camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited.

No, he continued to rule Russia until 1953 when he died. The deaths from the famine were seen as a loss and no more.

Stalin, primarily, along with Beria and a few others.

He was very much the Man of Steel. Both by name, and literally.

Most estimates I have read are around the 20,000,000 range. Although one claimed as many as 61,000,000. I imagine, the latter would be taking account soldiers and probably still greatly exaggerated.

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Lenin put his trust into Joseph Stalin at that time, to protect him. Stalin did the duty of shaving Lenin's beard and smuggling him to Finland.

Stalin solved the problem with the Kulaks by invading the country and establishing a connection with the groups' leader, and from that point he was able to have a direct say in whatever activities the Kulaks did.

Based on his speech at 1937 in Bolshoi Theatre, Stalin said that the intelligentsia class were necessary to help him fulfill state's tasks.

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Nikita Khrushchev, who succeeded Joseph Stalin. He threatened the United States to nuclear damnation at every conceivable opportunity and gave Fidel Castro full military support during the Bay of Pigs. What a great guy.

Stalin tried to make the economy fully industrial as a result there were shortages of food, housing and clothing. He also began a farming revolution by making "Collective Farms" but wealthy peasants resisted it and millions were killed and exiled for it.

Vladimir Lenin was the first person to take control in the Soviet Union. Lenin was in power through January 1924 when he died. Although he was almost totally incapacitated from strokes in 1923 (he could not speak or write), he was still active when the Soviet Union was formed in December 1922.

No, that was Joe McCarthy, although they used similar tactics at times trying to find people who they thought were disloyal to their countries.

Lenin wanted Trotsky to succeed him, because he felt that Stalin was too power hungry and crude. Lenin even wrote that before he died, but Stalin found out about it and suppressed it. Stalin as Secretary General of the Communist Party had placed many people loyal to him in high party office and had allied himself with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev (both of whom hated Trotsky). Trotsky found himself isolated and without support to succeed Lenin.

Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev ruled after Lenin died, but Stalin gradually eliminated them too and took complete control in 1928.

You could be talking about Afghanistan, who was repelling the Soviets. However, they had not been conquered.

No, Stalin was Georgian. Not Georgian from the American state of Georgia. He was born in Gori in the country of Georgia, which is south of Russia just over the Ural Mountains. He was not even Russian.

To industrialize his country

Stalin liked many things, such as herring, salmon, bear, pheasant, peppery soups, fruit, wine and hard liquour, almost anything that was produced in the Soviet Union!

The gulag was the system of prison camps in the Soviet Union. It is most commonly identified with Josef Stalin, who was responsible for the greatest number of prisoners sent there; however, the Soviet gulag system actually originated in the 1920's, during the reign of Vladimir Lenin.

No, though he turned anti-Jewish in old age (1951 on). There were antisemitic undertones during the Great Purges, but there was no attempt to exterminate ordinary Jews or send them to camps for simply being Jewish.

Joseph Stalin in WWII, but 1924 is not during WWII.