Joseph Stalin, The Leader of USSR from 1922 to 1953

Joseph Stalin, The Leader of USSR from 1922 to 1953 Every group, party and country has an ultimate advisor or leader. This

person is responsible for making educated decisions based upon the

best interests of their members, followers and citizens. Leaders set

goals and create objectives that the people they control will work

towards. For any type of group to be successful, it is required that

there is one individual to consent or eliminate the ideas proposed.

However, sometimes there are leaders who desire to obtain something

with so much integrity that the best interests of the party are not

met or are overruled. The leader will merely use its party to obtain

the goals he or she wants, and abuse the rights and privileges of the

party.

Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR from 1922 to 1953, would vastly

expand the ideas of communism and collectivism. Collectivism is a term

used to denote a political or economic system in which the means of

production and the distribution of goods and services are controlled

by the government. Communism is a form of collectivism that is a

concept of society in which major resources and means of production

are owned by the government rather than by individuals.

Joseph Stalin stretches these concepts to the extreme and leaves an

impact on society by increasing Russian production, forcing the USSR

into famine and through the executions of many USSR citizens.

Firstly, Stalin imprints society by increasing the USSR's production.

Under Stalin's rule, five hundred new factories are built during the

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... suspicious of government employees he begins to execute them. Later,

he moves on to killing middle-level factory workers, priests, teachers

of foreign language, writers, artists and even those who have

relatives or friends in foreign countries. By the late 1930's Stalin

has murders every high ranking Bolshevik that was involved in the

October Revolution in 1917. As Stalin gets worse, so do his

casualties, an estimated twenty five thousand military officers were

executed under Stalin's demand. "I will kill people as long as it is

necessary, for you cannot make a revolution with silk gloves on" (Dunn

97). Stalin's insanity will not stop until he dies, for he sees his

actions as justified. These actions leave the Russian civilization

feeling powerless and devastated. It will take years before Russia can

heal her wounds.