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.
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.
Throughout the roughly 50 years of the Cold War, United States Presidents attempted to exert their power and authority over American foreign policy with vastly different results. Presidents during the war faced an increasingly disaffected general American population. Securing their support was a cornerstone in determining the effectiveness of any President’s foreign Policy. The Cold War challenged the security of the US as a unified hegemon, forcing Presidents into making tough decisions on behalf of the American People. As the world grew ever more interconnected, defining and defending US global interests against Communism became less black and white. In my own personal view Jimmy Carter was the least effective Cold War President, while Ronald
The Cold War was a time of fear for the American people in the aftermath of the second World War, but also was a key period in which different presidents began and led various programs to fight Communism, both at home and abroad. President Eisenhower was elected in 1952, and various actions he took throughout his two term administration both assuaged and increased American fears related to Cold War problems. Eisenhower’s policies and programs of the Cold War included MAD and McCarthyism, which caused domestic fears, Brinksmanship and the creation of highways to carry military equipment through the Federal Highway of 1956 in case of foreign war, and his creation of NASA and the National Defense Education Act of 1958 for a technology race with the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini were all famous leaders of their time. When the word famous is mentioned for their description, it is not necessarily good. In fact none of them were known for anything good. You could say they were in”famous”. They all lead during the same time period; during the early to mid 1900s. Stalin was part of the Russians, Mussolini was with the Italians, and Hitler was with the Germans.
In the darkest hours of World War II, people looked for encouragement, guidance, and even acceptance to keep carrying on. Many people discovered whom they could trust and whom they could follow. Through those rough times came grave actions and harsh decisions. In those dark days, two leaders stood out among all men. These two leaders were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Because of their actions, Stalin and Hitler became two of the most feared totalitarian dictators of all time.
Winston Churchill had many accomplishments during his life. He was a remarkable politician but also a great solider, speech writer, and artist. He was considered one of the best politicians and speech writers of both his time and ours. He was born into the upper class but was able to sympathize with the poor and working class too. Churchill was loved and respected by all. Of all his great accomplishments, Churchill was best known for his two terms as prime minister.
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.
“The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost (Joseph Stalin).” “Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor village in Georgia (Joseph Stalin).” Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm, Stalin always felt unfairly treated by life, and thus developed a strong, romanticized desire for greatness and respect, combined with a shrewd streak of calculating cold-heartedness towards those who had maligned him. “He always felt a sense of inferiority before educated intellectuals, and particularly distrusted them (Joseph Stalin).”
Among the ashes and ruins caused by the devastation of World War Two, two superpowers rose and a new war erupted, the Cold War. The United States and its NATO allies as the capitalists versus the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact as the communists. It was named the Cold War due to the fact the neither countries would attack each other, so they fought proxy wars around the globe. Many small countries started taking sides and one of the most important country in the world sided with the communists, China. During Mao's reign they established the People's Republic of China, changed the tide in the Korean War and aided the Viet Minh; making him the most influential person during the cold war.
A leader is defined as a guiding or directing head. Stalin was the leader of the party that was in charge of the Soviet Union. He created a totalitarian regime which brought great suffering to the Russian people. The individual Russian played two distinct roles under Stalin. One role would be that of a person who under Stalin’s system was no different than the person who is standing next to them. Everyone was treated equal in all facets. The other role the individual Russian played was that of a victim. We are able to see by many different accounts that an individual had different roles to play and under Stalin, each role came with a price that sometimes lead to death. The role of the individual Russian played a huge role in Stalin’s aim at creating a stronghold on a nation that ended up imprisoning and killing millions of its own people
Joseph Stalin is a polarizing figure. Decades after his death his legacy still continues to create debate about his tumultuous years as the leader of the Soviet Union. This is evident throughout the four documents while some praise Stalin as impeccable others criticize his policies and lack of political, economic, and social progress during his regime. Even though Stalin was behind various violations of human rights he was able to maintain the Soviet Union during a time of turmoil both domestically and internationally as a result he has earned notoriety as a great leader and advocate for Marxist ideology.
Life is the most precious thing on Earth, but what if it was taken just at the snap of a finger? Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union took millions of lives under his totalitarian rule. He was the most fierce and vicious leader in comparison to all the other rulers that enforced totalitarian rule. Due to governing and how many people were killed under Stalin’s rule is what makes the Soviet union during the 1920s to the 1950s the worst totalitarian state ever in existence.
Joseph Stalin's Leadership Through World War Two Stalin (1927-1953) led the Soviet State through the challenges of World War II. Although the war was a terrible drain on the already impoverished and exhausted society, it resulted, paradoxically in strengthening the Soviet dictatorship. The war distracted the Soviet people from Stalin's excesses in previous years and generated patriotism and national unity. It also greatly strengthened the Soviet military. The Soviet Union emerged from the war as second in power only to the United States.
More murderous than Hitler, more powerful than Stalin, in the battle of the Communist leaders Mao Zedong trumps all. Born into a comfortable peasant family, Mao would rise up to become China’s great leader. After leading the communists away from Kuomintang rule, he set out to modernize China, but the results of this audacious move were horrific. He rebounded from his failures time and again, and used his influence to eliminate his enemies and to purge China of its old ways. Mao saw a brighter future for China, but it was not within his grasp; his Cultural Revolution was not as successful as he had wanted it to be. Liberator, oppressor, revolutionary, Mao Zedong was the greatest emancipator in China’s history, as his reforms and actions changed the history of China and of the wider world.
Stalin's Leadership by 1928. Stalin became leader of the USSR by 1928 through his strength. He also played on the weaknesses of his opponents; he manipulated important events, and had some luck in securing his place as leader. Stalin used his strengths to his advantage, which helped to become leader.