...Damage Caused By Joseph Stalin “Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.” -Joseph Stalin. In the early 1900’s Russia was on the verge of a revolution. For decades the country had been in an immense struggle between the Czars (otherwise known as the rulers of Russia) and the people. Corrupt leadership and inequalities throughout the Russian society eventually lead to a revolution. Nevertheless when Russia started fighting in World War One it was evident that the spark had been ignited and the insurgency had begun. And as Europe approached the end of the war, Russia further advanced into chaos. Vladimir Lenin, a revolutionary leader, lead the Russians into a rebellion to seize the Russian government. Lenin...
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...Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Ruthless and ambitious, Joseph Stalin grabbed control of the Soviet Union after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924. As a member of the Bolshevik party, Joseph Stalin (his adopted name, meaning "Man of Steel") had an active role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. He maneuvered his way up the communist party hierarchy, and in 1922 was named General Secretary of the Central Committee. By the end of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin had expelled his rival Leon Trotsky, consolidated power, and was the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s Stalin executed his political enemies and started aggressive industrial and agricultural programs that were supposed to lead to miraculous improvements in production, but instead left untold thousands of peasants dead. During World War II, Joseph Stalin was the commander of the Soviet military, first making a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler (1939) and then joining the Allies after Germany invaded Russia in 1941. Stalin attended the postwar conferences at Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam that determined the shape of the postwar world. He endured as maximum leader until his death in 1953; years later he was denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and "Stalinism" was officially condemned. Brief Bio Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and...
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...The main cause for the Russian Revolution of 1917 was poor government ruling. “...The czardom increasingly became a bureacy that imposed its will on the people by force, with wanton disregard for human life and liberty.(“Russian Revolution”)” This government was faulty and unfair, causing widespread scarcity and hunger. The everyday hard-working middle class of Russia knew no different was forced to live their everyday lives like this. It was the well educated, experienced Russians that came up with the idea of a revolution. They have been to Universities and met a variety of people from different countries and backgrounds and got another outlook and perspective on the struggles at home. Those who stay at home don't see how life could be better and only know how to cope with their tough everyday hardships (“Russian Revolution”). The Russian Revolution was actually made of up two separate revolutions...
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...For as long as organized civilization has existed, humans have asked the same question of who should lead, and how they should do it. There have been a variety of answers: monarchy, democracy, aristocracy, a republic, or something entirely different. For European nations, the mid-1900s was a time of growth in one specific type of government. Totalitarianism, or dictatorships, became one of the most common types of government after World War I. Although the results of Adolf Hitler’s leadership in Nazi Germany are the most widely known, multiple dictators came to power before him. Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler all shared the same fundamentals when related to leadership. These three dictators were able to gain power in their...
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...athan Ferro Fulton High School Joseph Stalin had a harsh early life. Joseph Stalin was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 18, 1878, or December 6, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar. He was born in small town of Gori, Georgia, and then part of the Russian empire. When Joseph was born, he was born into poverty and he then became involved in revolutionary politics, as well as criminal activities, as a young man. Stalin’s father was a shoemaker and beat Stalin all the time. Joseph also liked to keep his life personal and very private. “Stalin had no close friends; he was sullen, rude, and had other (unspecified) character traits that made many party comrades shun his company.” (Young, M. 2005) Joseph...
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...Niccolo Machiavelli played certain roles during the Renaissance Era. Machiavelli was known for his novel titled, The Prince. The novel explained the regulations and actions of how a prince should become a good ruler. Machiavelli’s novel concentrated it attention on knowing when to use your morals and when they should be put aside so you can keep your position intact. As Machiavelli had the mindset of what a ruler should be like, one particular ruler that comes to mind such as Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin epitomizes the ideas put forward by Machiavelli by depicting that being neutral is never an option, going to war, and having discipline. Joseph Stalin is a certain individual who made the Soviet Union a world superpower. Joseph Stalin is commonly known for his harsh ways and his leadership skills. At a tender age, Joseph Stalin felt he has been treated unfairly his entire life, as a result it led to the desire for greatness and respect in his future. In 1922 Joseph Stalin was appointed as the General Secretary of the Communist Party’s Central Committee. Stalin utilized this new position to overpower the less fortunate. Stalin’s tenure as dictator was so harsh that when Nikita Khrushchev took over in 1953 he started a policy of “de-Stalinization.” Stalin, having the utmost fear of being overthrown he executed some of his best medium ranked leaders. Machiavelli was noticed for Realpolitik, a political and judicial action that fits the circumstances but is not moral and...
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...Fascist dictators have been around for many years. Many want to have full power and control over a nation or multiple nations. Sometimes, they do this by using extreme violence and discriminating propaganda. In the Populus Leader Project, the fascist techniques of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Donald Trump are revealed. The section I worked on was about the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin had an extremely rough childhood. He lived in poverty and was spiteful at the government for this. He also got arrested many times. As soon as Lenin fell, Stalin jumped in and seized power of the USSR. He supported and had many extreme ideas such as killing all capitalists. One statement he said stated “When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use” (www.brainyquote.com.) Extreme ideas like this lead to violent killings and eventually the mass murder of 6 million people, including his own citizens. He firmly believed that “death is the solution to all problems. No man- no problem.” (www.brainyquote.com.) Ideas like this created the largest man-made famine in history. He used methods such as propaganda and a secret police force to try and get everyone on his side....
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...unique. The driving force of every country is its government. Russia's government was a communist witch, in turn made Russia a superpower. “Communism is a political and economic doctrine, the aim of witch is to abolish private...
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...Parallel Roots of Evil World War II was an essential part of history, great leaders emerged from it. Unfortunately, bad leaders arose from it, too, creating great damage. Two villainous leaders in that time period were Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany. These archenemies murdered millions of people during the time of their ruling. They fought to expand their territory along with their political beliefs. Both found themselves continuously fighting for the same territories. Stalin wanted to implement Marxism, while Hitler wanted Nazism, a form of socialism. Despite their enmity, they had parallel lives. Stalin and Hitler, the deadliest dictators in history, shared similar background, political agenda, and denial of crime. Stalin and Hitler shared a common distressing childhood that originated hatred and bitterness towards people. As children Stalin and Hitler were bullied. They...
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...Joseph Stalin was born 18th December 1878 and died on 5th March 1953, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state. Stalin was born in Gori in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire, to Besarion Jughashvili, a Georgian cobbler who owned his own workshop, and Ketevan Geladze, a Georgian who was born a serf. He was the youngest of their three boys; their two previous sons died in infancy. Stalin's chief aim was to expand industrial production. For this, he developed three Five-year Plans between 1928 and 1938. Gosplan, the state planning agency, drew up targets for production for each factory. The first two plans concentrated on improving heavy industry - coal, oil, steel and electricity. Some keen young Communists, called Pioneers, went into barren areas and set up new towns and industries from nothing. There were champion workers called Stakhanovites, named after a coal miner who broke the record for the amount of coal dug up in a single shift. Education schemes were introduced to train skilled, literate workers. The Soviet Union also gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors and scientists, as well as canal diggers and steel workers. At the same time, many of the workers were slave workers and kulaks from the gulag. Strikers were...
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...much power is Kim Jong-Il, the dictator of North Korea who was in power from 1994 to 2011. Kim Jong-Il has done many bad things with his power, such as putting thousands of people including children in imprisoned labor camps. They were appointed to imprison labor camps due to the acts he considered to be a crime which was hoarding food, and being an anti-socialist. Inside of the imprisonment labor camps the imprisoned...
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...Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) was not the major player of the October Revolution of 1917, however, he later grew through the ranks of the Bolshevik party and became one of the most powerful dictators that the world had ever encountered. His path to the dictator of the Soviet Union began when he was appointed to the position of the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. A lot of Bolsheviks criticize Stalin in the 1920s, but this did not prevent him from getting the power. Lenin was the first Bolshevik’s leader who foreshadowed Stalin’s dictatorship inclination by writing in his “Testament”: “Comrade Stalin … has concentrated an enormous power in his hand; and I am not sure that he always know how to use that power with sufficient caution.” (CP I, 64) Further in the testament Lenin suggested to remove Stalin from the post: “I propose to the comrades to find the way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man…”(CP I, 64) After the death of Lenin in 1924, Stalin started to destroy his opponents. Stalin was very skillful in maneuvering around situation to make his opponents look bad. Also, he was constantly changing his theory depends on whom he needed to destroy. The first Stalin’s target was Trotsky who wrote “theory of permanent revolution” where he elaborated on his concerns that the Soviet regime, being unsupported by international revolution, was in threat of losing its social qualities. Stalin criticized Trotsky’s publication and accused...
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...Orwell's “Animal Farm” was an allegorical novella written about the Russian Revolution. Set on a farm with a cast of almost exclusively animals Orwell used this novel to illustrate how Russia had failed in their revolution in a way that was easy to understand and translate. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, many animals represent important figures and groups from the Russian Revolution. This is proven in particular by three animals, all with uncanny resemblances to Russian Revolutionaries. The first animal with a Russian counterpart is Snowball the pig, who represents Leon Trotsky, the Russian politician...
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...Mr. Stalin, a notorious Russian dictator, lived 74 years as one of the most despicable men on the planet. From a life bound for priesthood to protesting with the Bolsheviks, Joseph Stalin, born on December 18, 1878 as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhagashvili, was always a rebellious person. Joseph had a slightly troubled childhood. His parents, better known as Beso and Keke, often abused him. His father, Beso,had drunken rages and that was when most of the abusing took place. Unfortunately for young Joseph, his father left to go live in the city. Joseph attended Gori Church School. While attending, he developed smallpox. His favorite childhood game was krivi, a game that bears a resemblance to boxing. He was very good at the game, but he was often bullied because he was only 5 feet 4 inches tall. He was self-conscious about that. Also in his childhood, Stalin suffered an injury; that injury was a deformed left arm caused by getting run over by a cart....
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...a tragedy, A million deaths is a statistic.” The man who said this managed to commit mass genocide, the death count amassing to about 20 million. But how did he do it, and why? Joseph Stalin was a genius for sure, but a brute dictator. He transformed Russia from a from a powerless country into a superpower- at the cost of 20 million lives. Stalin was born on December 18, 1878, although he later went on to say it was 1879. His real name was Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugahishivili, but took up the name Stalin in his mid 30’s. His father, Besarion Jugahishivili was a failed cobbler and an an alcoholic. He regularly beat and abused his son and also his wife, Ekaterina Gabriels Asuli Jugahshivili, or as her friends knew her, Keke Geladze. Keke sent her son to a church school, where Stalin joined classes like choir. Since Stalin...
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