The Impact of Stalin’s Domestic Policies on the Soviet People By 1928 Stalin had become the undisputed leader of the CPSU. With his power of appointment as general secretary, the majority of members owed their position to Stalin. Stalin’s agricultural, industrial and social policies between 1928 and 1940 turned Soviet Russia into the second largest economy in the world, but at the expense of living standards. Under Stalin, the working class of Soviet Russia found themselves living under
Animal Farm Research Paper According to dictionary.com, rule - (verb) - to control or direct; exercise dominating power, authority, or influence over; govern. All people have experienced a ruler in their lives. Some rulers are fair, kind, and have the goal of making the area they have control over the best it can be to everybody living in it. Other rulers do not have the same idea. They are deceiving and the actions they take ultimately hurt all of the people in the area they rule. Joseph Stalin
The Effects of Stalin on Russia Much like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin was one of the most ruthless and despised people in the recorded history of the world. Stalin though his policies found it fit to abused his people in any way he saw fit. This man started what history now calls "The Great Purges." Through the late 1920's when the rest of the world was living it up as the roaring 20's came to an end, Joseph Stalin was setting the stage for gaining absolute power by employing secret police
Vivian Nguyen Amicangelo 8Celtics 22 February 2014 JOSEPH STALIN Joseph Stalin was a man who many people had mixed feelings for. Some say he was a dictator and a tyrant, but others say that as a ruler, he shaped Russia and pushed it in the right direction. Both sides are correct, and there are many examples to back them up. Stalin did accomplish benefiting Russia‘s image, but he was a man who killed many. Stalin was born as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (later became Joseph Stalin) on December
the Secret Russian Police, the KGB and the NKVD, were employed by the government to allow Stalin to stay in power. Historical Background Topic Sentence: The KGB, otherwise known as the Committee of State Security, was the world's largest spy and state-security group; the NKVD, or People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, was involved in almost all aspects of life of everyday people in the Soviet Union. The KGB was often involved in numerable
own people by Stalin himself. From 1934 up until 1939 a period of mass fear swept over Russia and at the helm Stalin with his (helpers?) of mass killings, the NKVD which are the internal police. Russia has always had a form ‘state security service’ commonly thought of now as “the secret police”, but in 1929 under the direction of Stalin the NKVD was formed and though it may have a new name it still held the infamous fear and practices of its predecessors, the GPU, The GUGB, and others. Russian author
the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the communist police. Stalin’s ambition saw his determination to eliminate rivals such as followers of Leon Trotsky, a political enemy. The overall concept and practices of the Terror impacted on the communist party, government officials and the peasants. The NKVD, Stalin’s instrument for carrying out the Terror, the show trials and the purges, particularly affected the intelligentsia. The NKVD, transformed by Stalin from the original secret
would’ve helped our family as well. I don’t think I would’ve been as calm as Lina was when she got deported. I would’ve asked so many questins and I would defintily want to know why we were getting deported and why my mother was being so nice to the NKVD. The second reason why is because Lina, her mother, and her brother get seperated from their father for a long period of time which is hard. I don’t think I could’ve been as brave as Lina was. I know it would be espically hard
In total forty million people died in this massacre. The first people rounded up were the Trotskyites. This massacre matters because forty innocent million people died. Just like what Hitler but Stalin didn’t like Hitler but he did the same thing as hitler but the only difference was that Stalin killed his own people. The people that Stalin they could’ve done some good for the world and they could’ve changed how we thought as humans
“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, My brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” When people have their basic rights removed they all react differently, some fight, some do nothing and some find ways around it. My beliefs are that people should have the right to freedom of speech, freedom from unjustified arrest, no interference with privacy, home or family, the right to life liberty, and personal security, and freedom from mistreatment or torture. In the beginning, Lina
According to Siegelbaum, the Cheka was the “sword of the Revolution,” explicitly conceived as an organ of “mass terror against the bourgeoisie and its agents.” Established as a result of opposition to the Bolshevik government, the Cheka accumulated power with each additional uprising to the extent whereby its campaign of political terror derived it the name of the ‘Red Terror.’ In the beginning the Cheka consisted of but 40 officials. They were in charge of a team of soldiers called the Sveaborgesky
Dialogue and characterization are effectively employed by Ruta Sepetys to create a forced atmosphere where choices are limited. Told from the perspective of an adolescent girl, Lina, the excerpt portrays a character who combats between appearance and her own ‘reality’ through her artistic expression. Her drawings are “very realistic” because she draws them based on her view of the world (Sepetys). In the ‘real world’, however, they appear to be rather unflattering and therefore, although she “longs
Have I taken the right decision, have I done the right thing? Questions like this have been on my mind since I decided to join the NKVD (Stalin's secret police.) May 19 1941 Today we are being reassigned to a concentration camp in Siberia.Thousands of Jews were deported to the Gulag camps of Siberia also run by the NKVD(History of the Cheka). But I didn't know, none of us did. Questioning Stalin and even the commander is something we learned to never do. Stalin ruled by terror and eliminated anyone
cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes” (5). Between Shades of Gray is narrated through the eyes of fifteen-year-old artist, Lina Vilkas. Soviet soldiers, known as the NKVD, take Lina and her family from Lithuania to labor in Siberian camps with little supplies and hope. As people around her die at the NKVD’s hands, she is forced to endure
children that Stalin was ‘the wisest man of the age’. History textbooks and photographs were changed to make him the hero of the Revolution, and obliterate the names of purged people. To make certain themselves of an endless supply of "traitors” the NKVD interrogators concentrated on two questions: "Who recruited you?" and "Who did you recruit?" The "confessions" often doomed casual associates, friends, and even family. “Even at a time when the threat of war in Europe was rising, much of the military
personal opponents. The OGPU [later to become the NKVD] were used to purge the political dissidents in the USSR. The Great Purges led to thousands of party members, military officials and civilians being executed or sent to the GULAGS. Whether the purges did remove enemies of Stalin is questionable, due to the fantastical methods of the NKVD. The NKVD were set quotas, and operated using public informers. By 1936 it is estimated 1 in 5 people were NKVD informers. This Red Terror had the effect of
is a fifteen year old girl who is the protagonist of this story. She was taken, by the NKVD, from her house with her mother and brother to exile. Later in the story she meets Andrius and falls in love with him. She marries him after the war while moving from place to place. Andrius uses his misfortune as a fortune to help others. He takes care of Lina and her family as best he can. Nikolai Kretzsky is a young NKVD officer who helps Lina and her mother even after Lina insulted him. Mr Stalas is a Jew
to the hope of one day going back home, and living again. It is that hope that keeps them alive, and pushes them to keep on going when they have nothing left. The characters that help the Lithuanians see beyond black and white are namely Kretzky, an NKVD officer, Elena, the main character Lina’s mother, Mrs. Arvydas, Andrius’ mother, and Lina, herself. The ever-present theme of shades of gray is uncovered in even the most peculiar places in Ruta Sepetys’ heartbreaking narrative. When Lina, her mother
This kind of mission to take out enemies to the CIA, is very similar to the actions of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin in Russia. The purpose of the NKVD was to take out anyone who was a subversive to Stalin. In the movie this also showed that the head agent of this CIA operation Alexander Conklin had complete and unchecked control very similar to Stalin or Hitler and their
Russia in the 1930s By 1928, Stalin had ousted Trotsky and the rest of the Left opposition. In four years, Stalin had single handedly taken major steps away from Lenin’s collective leadership and free inter party debate and replaced them with his autocratic dictatorship. Stalin began to secure predominant power over the communist party and the state by destroying passive opposition from the peasantry and former Lenin supporters. He won growing support from the working class who were impressed