Josef Stalin had many different obstacles and problems to overcome during his reign; this was similar to Adolf Hitler, who also had numerous troubles to get past during his rise to power to create Nazi Germany. There were many similarities between Hitler and Stalin during their conquests to become the leader of the country they were a part of. Stalin took control brutally by defeating his rivals, using totalitarian methods, and being a strong powerful leader. Hitler became in control through convincing Germans to believe that the Jews were to blame for Germany’s problems. Hitler chose to kill a specific group of people to gain control and be obeyed by the people whereas Stalin killed millions of different people, so he would stay in control of the Soviet Union. Out of the two these two leaders; Stalin impacted his country more positively, through advancing it both economically and industrially.
Stalin was ruthless and created a totalitarian state during the 1930s, causing enormous suffering. The result was a form of totalitarianism that was more advanced than that of Hitler's Nazi Germany. Stalin was in control of internal developments and pursued a foreign policy for Russia. These occasionally caused changes in tactics, or a strategy of dividing the Western powers. (Bullock, Allan) Due to these developments, and despite the suffering of Russia's own population, the Soviet Union was able to inflict defeat on Nazi Germany. This followed a disastrous initial response, in which Stalin didn't know what Hitler's intentions were. But Stalin's subsequent recovery interacted with long-term economic and military preparation for the Soviet Union. As a result of eventual victory, Stalin's position was greatly strengthened. He was therefor...
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There were many similarities between both of the very powerful leaders Hitler and Stalin. Hitler’s reign of Germany was similar to Stalin’s in many different ways, including his rise to power, his decisions once in power and his fall. Stalin got to power by his power and he was faster then anyone could notice, whereas Hitler came to power by convincing a country that a certain group, the Jews, were to blame for their countries problems. Once the people believed them, he overthrew the country and invaded parts of Europe. Both Hitler and Stalin’s plans while in power were both about gaining land and resources. I believe that Hitler was the more brutal leader by only killing a certain group of people, but Stalin had better ideas and was more successful than Hitler by he gained more land and had more control.
Many would say that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were both awful men and even worse leaders in their countries. But, if you really sat down to think about how they ran their form of government, they were actually two of the most vainglorious leaders in the world at that time. Hitler was able to go from being a soldier in World War I to being the supreme leader of Germany. Benito was able to go from being a brief schoolteacher, to being a 10-year journalist.
The argument that both of these book have made is that Stalin, for all of his brutality, was a patient political leader that was concerned about the direction of the Soviet Union. The simplicity of “If you were seen as an obstacle you were removed” workered well for Stalin . Whether that future be political, ideological, or technological, Stalin deemed himself worthy of screening many aspects of Soviet society. Although we do get a portrait of Stalin's domestic life, that was of comparably lesser importance than running a nation with trouble developing a thriving heavy industry, defending itself from outside attacks, and spreading communist ideology. Stalin was a monster, but he built the Soviet Union from into an a world super power state.
Hitler and Stalin will probably go down in history as two of the greatest known evil leaders of the 20th Century. What could bring two men to become the menaces they were? What kind of upbringing would cause someone to turnout the way they did? This report will compare the two through their adolescence till the end of their teenage years.
Son of a poverty-stricken shoemaker, raised in a backward province, Joseph Stalin had only a minimum of education. However, he had a burning faith in the destiny of social revolution and an iron determination to play a prominent role in it. His rise to power was bloody and bold, yet under his leadership, in an unexplainable twenty-nine years, Russia because a highly industrialized nation. Stalin was a despotic ruler who more than any other individual molded the features that characterized the Soviet regime and shaped the direction of Europe after World War II ended in 1945. From a young revolutionist to an absolute master of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin cast his shadow over the entire globe through his provocative affair in Domestic and Foreign policy.
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were similar in what they claimed to be, but in actuality they were very different people. Although Stalin claimed that he followed Leninism, the philosophy that Lenin developed from Marxism, he often distorted it to follow what he wanted to do. While Lenin wanted to make a unified society without classes, with production in the hands of the people, while Stalin wanted to make Russia into a modern industrial powerhouse by using the government to control production. Lenin accomplished his goals through violence, because he thought achieving Communist revolution was worth using violence, with a ‘The ends justify the means’ mentality. Stalin also used violence to accomplish his goals, however Stalin used much more violence than was often necessary to accomplish his goals. Stalin continued even once he was successful in accomplishing those goals, as he did not stop hurting people, but if anything it gave him more power to hurt people even more. But, at the end of the day, although Lenin ruled for only a very short time, he did raise the standard of living, though there maintained a large amount of hardship. Stalin, however, transformed the USSR from a peasantry to an industrialized nation in less than a decade, he did it on the backs of his millions of victims, who died because of his harsh policies and many purges.
These two men were very demanding in obtaining what they thought should be the rule of a nation by their own personal control. Stalin and Hitler were very close in the same way that they had an aggressive vigor to force a type of commanding dictatorship into their respective countries. Each had a special army that they put in high regard politically to where they were considered special police agents. These armies were under different orders, but their main objectives were to stop anyone who opposed, or were thought to be in opposition to the head of state. Also, both Stalin and Hitler had ideas to improve the education levels and economic prosperity of their own countries, each trying to put their own at the top of the world in industry and commerce. Although Hitler and Stalin were opposed to each other’s own strategies and political stance on being a world dominator, they were very similar in the way to which they fought for political power.
However, the idea of the benefits to totalitarianism can only be successfully argued had Stalin made the right decisions later and shown the consequences of the purges to be worth the suffering.... ... middle of paper ... ... These effects coupled with the already existent military problems (rudimentary communications without radio and the total lack of appreciation of modern war techniques) must have posed a real threat to the security of the Soviet Union and damaged her ability to defend herself later. Alec Nove is right in suggesting that it was the Great Terror that made Stalin's advisers too afraid to inform him of the German invasion and this had huge human costs as Soviet forces were caught sleeping.
Stalin’s hunger for power and paranoia impacted the Soviet society severely, having devastating effects on the Communist Party, leaving it weak and shattering the framework of the party, the people of Russia, by stunting the growth of technology and progress through the purges of many educated civilians, as well as affecting The Red Army, a powerful military depleted of it’s force. The impact of the purges, ‘show trials’ and the Terror on Soviet society were rigorously negative. By purging all his challengers and opponents, Stalin created a blanket of fear over the whole society, and therefore, was able to stay in power, creating an empire that he could find more dependable.
Firstly, did you that Joseph Stalin was a huge inspiration to Hitler? Moreover, the biggest difference between both genocide is that why they did so. Firstly, Joseph Stalin started the “famine” because he wanted to exterminate the Ukrainians wh0 wanted independence. However, there is still debate over rather or not this is true or not. Reason for this is that there are no direct records of any sort of explanation why. So in Hitler’s case, he felt as though the Jews were a threat or because they were to blame for why the Germans were experiencing what they are going through. Because of this mentality, he wanted to destroy the Jews. How he planned on doing this was putting the Jews in concentration camps, and put strenuous labor on them. Criminals or such were also put into these camps. The people commonly die from disease, illness, or starvation. Compared to the Holodomor the conditions are about equally as horrid. Like the Holocaust, lots of Ukrainians were stuffed in trains and placed in inhabitable places, or confined to their city unable to leave. You either starved or eaten or dies from illness were the most common ways people died. Lastly, let’s talk about how Hitler was able to influence the majority people in Germany. So due to all the economic issues going on in Germany, the country was falling in shambles. The people were losing hope, and there seemed as their time of suffering will never end. This is where Hitler took a stand and flipped everything on its head. Hitler became the people, the countries shining beacon of hope. He helped the country economy rise back to its former glory. Furthermore, people started to follow in his footstep, newspapers, rumors, endless conversations is how Hitler’s name was spread. Now within the following years, he started World War 2, but that's a different story for a later
He would always try to stay one step ahead of other countries and try to begin new projects which seemed to fail. Joseph Stalin had many people suffering and killed when he was
The essay will open up the aspects of life and rulership policy of both leaders showing the answer to the question whether they differ much or there is much more similar in between than it seems from the first glance. To begin with, it must be said that the first common aspect between Hitler and Stalin is their difficult youth. Adolph's childhood years passed in constant crossings, caused by the peculiarities of his father's work. Because of that, young Hitler had to change lot of schools ,where he did not show any special talents and did not have many friends as the result of what he finished a school in Steir and received a certificate of education, which showed good grades only in drawing and physical education. During this period, his mother was dying from cancer, which definitely dealt a serious blow to the psyche of the young man.
Joseph Stalin became leader of the USSR after Lenin’s death in 1924. Lenin had a government of abstemious communist government. When Stalin came into government he moved to a radical communist society. He moved away from the somewhat capitalist/communist economy of Lenin time to “modernize” the USSR. He wanted to industrialize and modernize USSR. He had overworked his workers, his people were dying, and most of them in slave labor camps. In fact by doing this Stalin had hindered the USSR and put them even farther back in time.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact, and Germany broke this pact, which resulted in Hitler invading the Soviet. Stalin had been betrayed by Hitler, but luckily Stalin had switched to the allies before being invaded. This caused a big difference in the outcome of World War Two. As Germany invaded the Soviet city, Stalin stayed and ordered a scorched earth policy, which meant they destroyed any supplies that might benefit the Germans. Stalin was intelligent, and was an amazing leader throughout the war; this impacted the Russians and the course of the war greatly. Everything changed when the Soviets encountered the Germans in the Battle of Stalingrad; the Red Army defeated the Germans and won the war. Stalin led the Red army to victory, and he turned out to be the Hero of Russia and the war. To conclude with, Stalin was the man who made the biggest impact throughout the war because of the accomplishments he achieved with
Joseph Stalin was a realist dictator of the early 20th century in Russia. Before he rose to power and became the leader of Soviet Union, he joined the Bolsheviks and was part of many illegal activities that got him convicted and he was sent to Siberia (Wood, 5, 10). In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to take over the Soviet Union (Wiener & Arnold 199). The main aspects of his worldview was “socialism
From my own knowledge, Stalin was evil because he abused his powers to put fear into the public so they wouldn't rebel against him. dictatorship. He just took away citizen owned farms and made them government property (collectivisation) using power. Also he sent many loyal citizens away from gulags. However, he also improved the country by building rail tracks and better transport.