From 1928, when the plan started, to 1932 to its end, many factories, dams, power stations and even cities were being built. Despite there being harsh penalties implemented to workers for failure to meet their targets, there was still a significant increase in Russia’s industrial growth in a very short period of time. Just like the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, under Tsar Alexander II, in protest of Stalin’s policies, the peasants, in protest, refused to work harder than they needed too, causing them to destroy livestock and crops, which eventually lead to their unnecessary death. Stalin, just like the Tsarist autocratic regime, was not committed to collectivism but preferred capitalism in his ruling of the Soviet Union. This caused a lot of rebellion from the Kulaks who opposed collectivism.
Not all the blame can be placed on the people though. There were many ways that Stalin kept gaining power and the people never knew about it. In 1912, Vladimir Lenin put Stalin on the central committee of the Bolshevik party. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, giving Stalin more power. He then became the secretary of the communist party.
Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1914, Joseph Stalin took up his position as leader of the Soviet Union. After rising to power, Stalin made drastic changes to Russia that was still torn from war at the time. With his power, Stalin aimed to bring Russia to the top of the world. In the end, while he pushed the Soviet Union’s economy to new heights, his methods were cruel and had negative impacts. After the war, Stalin was determined to turn Russia into a great industrial power.
Joseph Stalin came into power as leader of the USSR in 1929, after the death of the late Communist Party leader and leader of the USSR, Vladimir Lenin in 1924 (1). He was a close, committed ally of Lenin’s in the Party and a staunch Communist, who helped played a part in the success of the October Revolution by using his skills as a criminal to assist in stealing money for the Party and ensuring that the Bolsheviks’ revolution plans could be executed without hindrance (1 & 2). However, before Lenin died, he stated in his “Last Testament” that he was secretly sceptical of Stalin becoming leader of the Communist Party and the USSR due to his uneducated background, arrogance, rudeness towards other Party members, particularly Leon Trotsky, and
Throughout Russia’s history, there have been many rulers that tried to manage their country in different ways. Even though, all of these rulers had their own unique ways of ruling, all of them were seen as terrible by the people. This eventually led to a tipping point for the Russian citizens and the Russian Revolution took place. The goal for these people was to gain freedom from their oppressive czar but instead, they got an even worse leader. Joseph Stalin was a leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953 and he was known for his ability to strike fear into people.
Stalin was part of the Politburo and grew power in the secretariat until he became General Secretary in 1922. That job allowed him to choose the local Party officials, who elected delegates to the Congress, who elected the central Committee; and gave him access to hundreds of files and reports about the members of the Communist Party. At the same time, Lenin’s plan enrolled 500,000 people to the Party after they came to the power in 1917 that had little idea about the Communist ideology and were only seeking money and privileges. Even though they did not have knowledge, it increased the number of people that were in favour of the Communist Party and it allowed Stalin to create alliances and ensure his support. By persuading those people and selecting his supporters for influential roles, Stalin was able to create his own network of associates and ensure his coming to
Joseph Stalin and His Rise to Power Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18th 1878 in Gori, Georgia, which, at the time, was still part of Russia. His early years consisted of hardship, having been born an only child to an impoverished family with an alcoholic father who abused him and contracting smallpox that left him riddled with facial scars. In his teens he was granted a scholarship in order to study priesthood at the Georgian Orthodox Church, where he secretly began reading the writings of Karl Marx, and would eventually throw away his scholarship and be kicked from the school for missing exams, having claimed it to be for communist propaganda. He soon became a political agitator, fighting for the revolutionary movements against the Russian monarchy by partaking in strikes and demonstrations; however, these peaceful protests soon turned into bank heists, of which the money went to the Bolshevik Party, and would get him “arrested multiple times between 1902 and 1913, and subjected to imprisonment and exile in Siberia”(“Mini-biography on the life of Joseph Stalin” 2009).
Please identify the meaning and significance of the following terms: Mensheviks: The Mensheviks were those who believed Russia needed to industrialize and needed to have a large working class before a socialist revolution took place. Bolsheviks: The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (also known as Lenin), were more radical than the Mensheviks. They believed that a small party of professional revolutionaries could use force to create a socialist society. Soviets: Soviets were workers’ councils that formed to voice the workers’ (negative) opinions.
Fritz Oehlschlaegar links the meaning of “The Lottery” to patriarchy. He suggests that the event was a depiction of the way the male dominated over women sexuality in the society. According to the author, women gave birth to many children to increase their survival probabilities during the “The Lottery”. He also discusses the conflict between male authority and women resistance. He suggests that the women did not support the event, felt it was unfair but could not however raise their opinions since they were submissive to their husbands, and were controlled by the men.
Eventually he was recognised for his activities by a rebel leader named Lenin. Lenin rewarded and respected Stalin for all of his work and got him into the communist’s party. Stalin strategically played his cards to gain power and after Lenin died he gained the most power. Stalin then dethroned all of the original members of the group and he became the dictator. Once Joseph Stalin became dictator he started disputes with foreign and neighboring countries because of his own pride proving he was not a fit
On December 18, 1878, a child was born to Ketevan Geladze and Besarion Jughashvili. His name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, who we know now as Joseph Stalin. He was a poor child
Stalin wanted the eastern part of Europe to be a communist nation. The reasons where more for his benefit then anyone else's. There where three major goals for Stalin in having communist nations. One of his big goals that he was trying to receive was he wanted workers from all over Eastern Europe to revolt up. This was kind of like take overs.
By 1922, Stalin was already a member of the Russian Communist Party. On April 3rd,upon Lenin’s suggestion, Stalin was given the position of General Secretary of the party. The role of the General Secretary was to lead party operations. This allowed him to have a foothold of influence in the party.
He begins with the statement on how many people are happy with the achievements of socialism has achieved, but one class was not happy (Fordham University). This class was known as the gentry, Stalin described them as follows, "These gentry were guided in their evaluation of the achievements of the workers and collective farmers not by the interests of the people, who applauded every such achievement, but by the interests of their own wretched and putrid faction, which had lost all contact with the realities of life” (Fordham University). Next speeches by the gentry were analyzed, Fordham University States, “At the Seventeenth Party Congress, Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky made repentant speeches, praising the Party and extolling its achievements to the skies. But the congress detected a ring of insincerity and duplicity in their speeches” “Speeches were also made at the Seventeenth Congress by the Trotskyites, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who lashed themselves extravagantly for their mistakes, and eulogized the Party no less extravagantly for its achievements.” By the writing of Stalin, it seemed that this group of individuals were plain
In 1921, Lenin had established the ban of factions under difficult circumstances. This ban had forbidden any kind of associations between members within the Party. It definitely was in Stalin’s advantage as the head of ‘the
