Joseph Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union in 1928 (“Joseph Stalin – Powerful Communist Ruler”) after the death of Russia’s former ruler Vladimir Lenin (“Joseph Stalin”).
In the late 1920’s he created a sequence of five year plans which were created to alter the Soviet Union from a peasant society into a country that was industrially advanced (“Joseph Stalin.”) after he realised Russia was far behind in comparison to the west (“Joseph Stalin.”).
The idea was for the government to control the economy in which they forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, the idea in which the government controlled farming. Anyone who refused to cooperate were either shot or exiled as punishment. Millions of farmers were killed (“Joseph Stalin.”) and this farming method wasn’t able to produce enough food leading to famine which results in millions of other deaths across the Soviet Union (“Joseph Stalin –
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This which was a collection of campaigns designed to get rid of the Communist Party, the military and other parts of the Soviet Union that he thought were a threat (“Joseph Stalin.”). During the Great Purge thousands of people were killed or sent to slave labour camps (Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953.”)).
Before World War 2, the, Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact (“Joseph Stalin.”). Hitler broke this agreement and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Although Stalin ignored warnings from various sources about the potential invasion (“Joseph Stalin.”), by 1942 Germany was defeated and driven back. Although Russia won, many Russian civilians and soldiers died (“Joseph Stalin – Powerful Communist Ruler”).
After World War 2, Stalin continued to dictate. Various examples of this were the initiation of purges, executions and exiles to labour camps to rid him of any opposition or other influences (“Joseph