How Did Joseph Stalin Rise To Power

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. Stalin's background and personality played a large role in Stalin's rise to power. Born into poverty, beaten by the father. Later started to show interest in Marxism. Stalin was not religious. As a teen, Stalin became involved in criminal activities. Later involved in revolutionary politics, as a young man. However, an important aspect in his rise of power was, that he spent the period between 1917 and 1924 building up his position within government and the Party. No astonishment that all of those actions were planned by Stalin. They helped to ‘build socialism’, which meant economic modernization and industrialization. To achieve economic modernization,

The focus was also put on those who were considered to be resisting economic change, including the kulaks and managers in the industry. The importance was placed on heavy industry rather than on consumer goods, and especially on coal, steel, oil, electricity, and armaments. The aim of Five-Year Plan was to increase the production of the means of production, in other words: to build iron and steel manufacturing plants; to build electric power stations etc. Five-Year Plan included a massive increase in industrial output. This was highly ambitious for a country that did not have a workforce with the necessary skills. Undoubtedly, it was not perfect economic policy and there were problems with access to necessary skills, importing necessary technologies to produce efficiently, people were leaving or changing jobs. As mentioned Stalin was a tactical player, soon some of the mentioned problems were gone, because Stalin found a solution for most of those problems. He encouraged

Government Party officials reported situation often and Stalin personally traveled to the Urals and western Siberia . in 15th Congress of the Communist Party, he introduced people to the collectivization of agriculture. To undertake collectivization more easily at a gradual pace, it was allowed the peasantry to join kolkhozy voluntarily. Unfortunately, between 1929 and 1930 households were forced to join kolkhoz (collective farms), because Central Committee wanted to increase the goals. While Central Committee wanted to increase goals, Stalin called and saw that as ‘’liquidation of kulaks as a class’’. Between those years kolkhoz percentage grew enormously. But, Stalin unlike Preobrazhensky, was able to persuade an innately conservative part of society to accept the role of being in the forefront of socialist development, only through the ruthless exercise of his power. USSR began its long history as a command economy, which meant that all resources were owned by the state and distributed by the state planning commission ‘’Gosplan’’. By 1929, the policy of collectivization had been introduced and made agriculture more efficient. Many households were brought together to make kolkhoz. This divided society in even more different levels. Kulaks were the rich peasants. From Stalin’s prospective kulaks were those peasants who had something more than usual peasants.