Joseph Stalin

Stalin had light-dark brown hair in his youth, as can be seen in his police mugshot in 1902. But as he aged his hairs became jet black

The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that too place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to suppress political dissidence. Through the purges and public trials people that spoke out against the government were made an example of through their punishments.

The person who took Stalin's place after his death of a brain hemorrhage was Nikita Khrushchev. This man started the cold war with the United StatesNikita Khrushchev

By using police terror, destroying enemies of Stalin, monitoring telephone lines, reading mail, and planting informants.

Cautious and always suspicious, but yes. Stalin had already been receiving US Aircraft (especially the P-39 Aerocobra), warships, rifles, ammunition, food, and medical supplies from the US.

Stalin would most likely have wanted them to for the reason that if the Western Front were to be strengthened, Germany would have to strengthen their forces against them. This would require pulling troops off the Eastern Front and therefore from his.

If the Western Front were to lose or collapse altogether, troops and equipment would be flooded to the Eastern Front. With the abundance of new numbers, Stalin's forces wouldn't have stood a chance.

improved for a while, but then became more strained

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Russian Propaganda had a lot of Nationalistic views. There were a lot of movies that had Russia as the hero of the day. There posters delt with rising the ego of the country and demeaning the other countries.

There were many factors that led people to like Stalin. The main one was probably the 'cult of personality'. This meant he could manipulate how he was seen as a leader through images, films, poems etc( which were only allowed if they glorified him) and thus fool people into thinking he was a good leader. For example, during the time of the 1930's, he would have images of him and children, creating his idea he was the 'father of Russia'. He also used the 'cult of personality' to lead people to believe he had led them throughout the war to success in 1945. In reality, it was more likely the mistakes of the Germans and organisation of military strategies by others which had saved them. Stalin at the time of the war did not know what to do! After the war, he glorified himself even more through posters, showing him as God-like. He manipulated these kind of events to create a likeable image of himself. Also, although the gulags( labour camps) were his idea, many in the camps sent him letters asking him to save them, as they believed such a 'great leader' would never let such awful things happen. It just shows how badly the idea he was a good leader was indoctrinated in their heads through all of these things. He killed millions and cost so much dear human life, yet even at his funeral many were in tears and distraught their 'great' leader had died.

Most would argue that managers are born. This is because these managers personality favors being the boss, knowing what to do under stress, and being determined to get the job done.

Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union was the leader of Russia, and he did get much out of Roosevelt during conferences. He soon learned the basics of building an atomic bomb as Roosevelt was a bit loose with the subject. That lead to the Cold War in which there were enough atomic and nuclear bombs and missiles to destroy the globe, or the Earth.

He was the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union before, during and after World War 2. He had to guide the country through the war, and was involved in the post-war settlement.

However, he was a ruthless and cruel despot who recklessly and mercilessly slaughtered his own citizens- even his most loyal followers- because he was paranoid that someone was going to try to overthrow him. Just prior to the start of the war, he massacred millions of his own people, including many soldiers and even high ranking military officers, in the so-called "Great Purge".

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1942, the Soviet military was still recovering from the slaughter, so they were initially not able to stop the German advance. Had Stalin not executed so many of his own soldiers and generals, Germany might not have been so successful in their invasion. Of course, Germany was eventually stopped and defeated by the Soviets- but it probably would've been a lot easier.

Joseph Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin on 21st January 1924 (N.S). He did not have sole control. He acted as part of a troika with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. In fact these three had been in control of the Soviet Union soon after Lenin's first stroke in 1922 at various times depending on Lenin's health. After Lenin's death, over the next several years, Stalin eliminated Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin as well as Zinoviev and Kamenev from participation in the government to become sole leader of the Soviet Union in 1929.

Joseph Stalin was a corrupt bureaucrat that warped the Socialist ideals of Marx and Lenin (and other Marxists) into a totalitarian regime where the state controlled absolutely everything. Communism by default is highly against a state even existing. Stalin was not a Communist or a Socialist by any means. He was a fascist that used Communist imagery and ideology to control everyone and everything.

The only difference between Stalin and Hitler was Stalin did not kill people because they were of a certain race. However Stalin did not treat everyone equal and thought homosexuality to be a crime, much unlike Lenin who argued for homosexuality and abortion to be accepted (legalized during the planned socialist stage of the country)

After Lenin's death, Stalin managed to oust Trotsky from membership in the Communist Party, then from the Soviet Union itself. Trotsky was forced into exile first to Turkey, then France, then Norway and finally to Mexico. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader murder Trotsky with an ice axe.

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Stalin had no role in World War 1. At that time he was a revolutionary Bolshevik agitator against the Tsarist government. For 3 years beginning in 1914, Stalin was in exile in Siberia. At one point in time, the Tsarist army was so desperate for soldiers, it conscripted men even from among the many revolutionaries who were living in exile. Stalin was ordered to report for a physical but was deemed unfit for military service and rejected. His left arm was withered from a childhood injury when he was hit by an oxcart.

When the Tsar abdicated in March 1917, Stalin immediately returned to Petrograd to take up his revolutionary Bolshevik activities once again. Russia's part in World War 1 ended a year later.

Stalin never "joined the Soviet Union." Vladimir Lenin created it in 1922 when Stalin was one of several Commissars in Lenin's government. After Lenin died Stalin and others took over running the Soviet government. Later he had total control of it.

Why did he take control over it. Stalin was always power hungry and controlling. He saw his chance at surviving Lenin after Lenin had his disabling strokes and stepped in to take that control of and exercise power over a country.

The purpose of Stalin's five year plans was to rapidly industrialize the USSR. He wanted to industrialize so quickly because Russia was years behind as far as weapons and industrialization. These plans actually worked; he made the progress of 50 something years in 10.

I don't think there was a want to reach Berlin before America, I just think the Soveits pushed harder and faster and therefore did reach it first.

To say Stalin wanted to would need some sort of conclusive evidence of this.

All Gulags were to found in Russia, scattered over a very wide area. There were at least 476 separate camps, some of them comprising hundreds, even thousands of camp units.

Stalin's rise to power began when he gained control of Central Control Committee in the years between 1921 to 1923. After Lenin's death he began the so-call Lenin Levy which recruited thousands of new members to the Communist Party. He had the opportunity to hand pick people who supported him. Before Lenin's death he managed to isolate Lenin from other Party members. With the successful exile of Trotsky, many of Stalin's enemies "disappeared". For all practical purposes he was unopposed as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1929. He was cautious, however, and did not make himself the infallible Premier until 1931. Unfortunately the 1924 "Lenin's death" answer as to when Stalin was the dictator of the USSR is not correct.

No, he did not. His first wife died of typhus or tuberculosis. Accounts vary. His second wife committed suicide.

no they did not. they were used to improve the lifestyle of russia.