Stalin greatly reformed Russia, and advanced Russia at the expense of the common citizens. ... Stalin's early years were those of a typical revolutionary or political activist. ... Thousands of people were slaughtered because they did not follow Stalin's plan for reforming Russia. ... First, he killed or exiled all of his political opponents. ... All political elite in Russia except for Stalin himself was killed. ...
Factors such as economic, social, leadership and political has the same impact in the making of modern Russia, as much as future military conflicts. ... Reforms of the emancipation of the serfs and many other came to create balance in the military and government structure, the reforms was the first step to modernization. ... However if it wasn't for the war Russia would never had realized the vital fields it needs to improve and modernize such as the navy, machine guns, railway system, etc. ... Reforms of Alexandra II recognize the desire to change as he had received a liberal educatio...
There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...
