When Stalin was not in jail he was very busy from 1902-1919. ... As secretary general Stalin had two jobs. ... Many land owners where outraged by Stalin's actions and they destroyed most of their crops and livestock, to spite Stalin. ... Stalin walked away with a clean set of hands. ... Anyone Stalin perceived as a threat was in trouble. ...
Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... Lenin liked Stalin, and Lenin did what he could to help Stalin rise to the top of the party. Exiled in 1913, Stalin did not return from Siberia until the Czar's abdication in 1917 (Stalin Modern). ... Stalin left a great mark on Russia. ... Stalin's purges began in 1924, and peaked in 1937 (Stalin Modern). ...
Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... Lenin liked Stalin, and Lenin did what he could to help Stalin rise to the top of the party. Exiled in 1913, Stalin did not return from Siberia until the Czar's abdication in 1917 (Stalin Modern). ... Stalin left a great mark on Russia. ... Stalin's purges began in 1924, and peaked in 1937 (Stalin Modern). ...
Joseph Stalin was an evil, barbaric man. ... Stalin was afraid of these secrets getting out. ... Stalin had spy's interview members of this inner circle. ... No one was safe from Stalin's evil. ... Stalin had some guidelines for Beria to follow. ...
His father died in a brawl when Stalin was only 11. ... At first Stalin seemed to fit in with the strict schedule. ... Stalin was now a wanted revolutionist known as Koba. ... Shortly after this, Stalin was arrested. ... Stalin had now picked up his new pseudonym (Stalin) meaning "Man of Steel. ...
This was the doing of Stalin. ... Again Stalin go the vote. ... Stalin was never a front man. ... This helped Stalin at first. ... When the three joined together against Stalin and the party Stalin had them seen as enemies. ...
Stalin felt that the West had invaded Russia many times before and could not be trusted. ... Stalin wanted the Russian border to move west into Europe. ... He convinced Roosevelt to appease Stalin as long as Stalin did not interfere in Greece. ... He was much more suspicious of Stalin than Roosevelt. ... Stalin dug up railway lines and blocked roads. ...
After Lenin's death in 1924, there was a keen struggle between his lieutenants Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, for taking his place. Stalin was successful in establishing his dictatorship in the party, as well as in the country. Exhibit 12.4 Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin then inaugurated an era of Five-Year plans in order to convert the weak, agrarian Russian economy into a powerful and stable industrial economy. ... Thus the First Five-Year Plan in 1928, the Second Five-Year Plan in 1933, and the Third Five-Year Plan in 1938, helped Stalin to realize his objectives completely. ... ...
A man wrote how Stalin had improved his love life he says, " All thanks to thee, O great educator, Stalin. ... But still people thought of the Stalin as the great "Shining Sun of Humanity." ... Worship of Stalin was optimistic but religious worship was strappingly barred. ... Stalin conned the Soviet Union in making them do exactly what he wanted. ... Stalin's actions destabilized and altered Soviet culture. ...
Surprisingly, despite the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at the time, when Truman discussed with Josef Stalin about the use of the atomic bombs on Japan, Stalin reacted rather supportively. "Truman: On July 24, I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. ... The nonchalant response from Stalin to Truman's words, surprised everyone at the Potsdam Conference. ... Even more surprisingly, Stalin remained silent without any questions the following days (Bohlen, pg 247-248). The reason behind Stalin's lack of interest in respo...
In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy, where he soon became leader of the academy's Communist Party organization. ... A firm supporter of Stalin during his early career, Khrushchev became a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1949. Soon after Stalin died in March 1953, Khrushchev became leader of the party, which suffered from a loss of power and prestige because of Stalin's violent, massive purges of the party and civilian population. ... Soon after Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov became prime minister. ... This spee...
George Orwell understood the true meaning of torture and the way Stalin used it. The way O'Brian tortured Winston and the way Stalin tortured his prisoners were extremely similar. ... Orwell here clearly criticizes Stalin's methods. Orwell's here critiques Stalin' methods. Here, Orwell here argues that these methods used by Stalin are not effective because brainwashing prisoners does not always help the country because Stalin's victims still died as martyrs. ...
On top of that, she had another goal: to photograph Josef Stalin. ... Stalin had ruled the Soviet Union with total authority since 1927. ... Stalin got rid of anyone who opposed him, or whom he even suspected of disloyalty. ... She took another look and decided that there was certainly nothing insignificant about Stalin. ... Stalin evidently thought it was very funny and started laughing. ...
The U.S. flaunted this technology to Stalin during the war and Stalin of course, passed it off coolly saying "good for you, use it against japan," but anyone can speculate what Stalin had to have thought in his mind. ... So of course Stalin puts his foot down on development of his own Atomic bomb. ... Stalin would say that with western hostility growing, that holding eastern Europe was in fact a defensive move on his part. ...
However, some believe that the decision to test the bomb and later drop it was motivated by a desire to scare the Stalin-led Soviets, and dissuade them from taking over Europe. ... Groves, to guarantee that the first testing of the atomic bomb would happen before Truman's meeting with Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam. After being told by Soviet intelligence of the successful A-bomb test, Stalin urged the small Soviet atomic bomb group to work harder to compete with the Americans. The belief that Truman decided to bomb Japan in order to frighten Stalin is supported by the idea that Truman...
In Stalin's case this method of nonviolence would have worked as well because being a dictator as Stalin was, he established many imperialistic colonies in which he ordered everyone to use capitalism. So if all those colonies that he took over such as Finland would have used nonviolent resistance Stalin would have been forced to come up with another plan to up his country. ... For the countries under the rule of harsh dictators such as Hitler and Stalin this method of resistance would have worked nicely. ...
The Battle for Stalingrad had become a personal fight between Josef Stalin and Hitler. For Stalin because the city bore his own name, and for Hitler because the city bore Stalin's name. ... All the time this fighting in the Soviet Union was going on, Stalin was urging Allied leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. ...
The atomic bomb also served to keep Stalin and the USSR in check by showing them the US's power and willingness to use it. ... And, if the Soviet Union had participated in Japan's defeat, Stalin would expect post-war concessions. ... Once Truman knew that the United States possessed the atomic bomb he hoped to use this technology to defeat Japan without the high cost of Stalin's assistance. ...
Stalin wanted to add Yugoslavia to the East European Communist bloc. ... Tito did not agree with Stalin and was then expelled from the Cominform. After Stalin's death Tito improved relations with the soviets, as well as many other countries. ...
Napoleon resembles the mad dictator known as Joseph Stalin, and Snowball, who was betrayed by Napoleon and banished from the farm (Russia), is an allegory of Trotsky. ... The rest of the animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleon's three vicious dogs are characters of the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). ... The hen's revolt against Napoleon when he decides to sell the eggs corresponds to the feudal lords' revolt against Stalin when he makes farming collective. ...
The Soviet Josef Stalin, seeking to consolidate communist rule in East Europe demanded the Western Allies withdraw from their occupation zones in Berlin. ... The death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Josef Stalin undermined the positions of many communist leaders in Eastern Europe and gave the peoples of East Europe hope that regimes would be liberalized. ...
"If Vladimir Ilich Lenin was the father of the soviet state, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was its gravedigger- (McCauley 344). Between 1964 and 1985 many economic reforms were attempted in the Soviet Union. These attempts were efforts to improve a system that was failing to produce adequate economi...
Another point that has to be mentioned are the leaders before Gorbachev, beginning the earliest with Stalin, who ruled as an dictator and destroyed the work on farms threw his collectivisation. ... Khrushchev reacted and ruled the same way as Stalin did, although he had promised to improve everything and to de-stalinate the country. ...
