Stalin introduced the Five Year Plans. This brought all industry under state control and all industrial development was planned by the state. The state would decide what would be produced, how much would be produced and where it should be produced. An organisation called Gosplan was created to plan all this out. The first five year plan was from 1928 to 1932. The second five year plan was from 1933 to 1937. The third five year plan was from 1938 to 1941 when the war interrupted it. Each plan set
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revolution of led to successful modernisation of Russia? When Stalin came to power he realised he had become the leader of a backwards country which was “50 to 100 years behind the countries of the west” he knew he had to make Russia catch up with the global powers of the west in 10 years or they would crush him, little did he know how right he was as World War Two started within 10 years of Stalin saying his famous line. First of all Stalin had to create enough food to feed his glorious new population
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no problem” - Joseph Stalin. Russia had long been suffered through totalitarianism from one man: Joseph Stalin. He was the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin passed away in 1924. He took after Lenin shortly after that and became the one of the most fearsome dictator in history. Stalin had the ability to make his people comply to every of his demand. A good leader has to put his people’s will before his own will, makes sacrifices and takes care of his people. Stalin did not do any of that
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First Five Year Plan? The essay at hand will the weigh the significance of the economic policies in Russia pursued by the Communist government during the 1920’s. There were various reasons as to why Stalin decided to replace the New Economic Policy with the First Five-Year Plan in 1928 which will be outlined. Moreover, the Russian economy was a major influence for a change in polity but there were also a number of other social and political motives for bringing in the First Five Year Plan. These
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picture. Decades after the end of the final 5-year plan and Stalin’s death, its legacy still continues to spark debate about its goals and its impacts to both the country and the Russian people. Between the years 1928 and 1941, the plans’ social influences on the Russian people coupled with the political aspect of creating a totalitarian dictatorship that would concenter all of these ideas into use resulted in a very complex situation (Stalin). The 5-year plans benefitted some, greatly hindered many others
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important role in the development of their country and on the world. Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler were three leaders that greatly impacted their countries. They all assumed power legally and had both positive and negative aspects to their rule. Although their overall rule was enough for their country at that time. Stalin assumed power legally and had both positive and negative aspects to his rule.Joseph Stalin took over leadership after Lenin. His rise was of terror and brutality
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M any people have agreed as myself that Stalin was able to transform the USSR into a great economical power through collectivisation. He did this because the USSR was struggling with growth of their lands. Stalin began the collectivisation process which enabled large farms to be more productive than small farms. This then lead to the five year plan of industrialisation aimed to expand heavy industry such as sol iron etc then the Magnitogorsk was built despite having inexperienced builders. In
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of the church and the state; two aims to break the hold of clergy and to undermine the religious faith of the peasants. The main terms were that children could not be taught religion nor could religious literature be published. Over the next three years the Bolsheviks built a decree to wage war against the Orthodox Church. NEP brought a decree of Religious Intolerance because Lenin allowed the peasants a certain amount of freedom, this meant they could practise religion without being prosecuted.
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1. Purges/Great Terror -Late 1930’s -Killing or out casting of primarily old Bolsheviks because Stalin felt they could not be trusted. -Demonstrated Stalin’s seriousness and assured other Bolsheviks that if they went against Stalin’s leadership or ideas, he would kill off or outcast them just as easy. 2. Dekulakization - 1929-1932 -The arrests, deportations and executions of Kulaks (better off peasants) -They were considered class enemies. The government wanted to build socialism
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin * Stalin was one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history. He was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for 25 years. His regime caused the death and suffering of millions but has turned the underdeveloped country into a super power. * Joseph Stalin’s Russian name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili and was born on the 18th of December 1879 in Gori, Geogia. * Stalin excelled through school and received a free scholarship to the Tiflis Theological
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How successful were the First Five-Year Plans in achieving their aims 1928-1941? The Five-Year Plans were designed to turn Russia into the socialist state that Stalin so longed for. Their main aims were to increase heavy industry, improve communication across the country, and later, rearmament and to create a war economy. But these plans were not always successful, and created further problems for Stalin's government to deal with. The First Five Year plan was based on one thing and one thing only
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During the 1930s Stalin gained power over the USSR. In his beginning time as a leader, he ruled with two other people. They each had a particular role in the government. Vladimir Lenin was the overall leader where Trotsky ran the military as a General. As for Stalin, he was lower on the power scale and he was in charge of the job system. When he gained power, he tried to revolutionize the Soviet Union. Stalin’s totalitarian rule changed the agriculture, industries, and culture in the Soviet Union
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stand out in particular, Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, and Pol Pot of Cambodia both used fear and violence to rule. Joseph Stalin was a man of great power, terror and was known for using ruthless and relentless techniques of controlling his people. He would starve his people for not listening to his command and abuse his power. According to document 5, “Millions of innocent lives were, to Stalin, a small price to pay for safeguarding his power”, as seen stalin was ruthless when it came to keeping
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Intro Historians have debated the role of Stalin in the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Soviet historians at first highlighted his massive contribution, but as Stalin’s role came under scrutiny during the period of Destalinisation Soviet commentators did cast doubt on his ability as a war leader. Western historians have been more critical of Stalin’s leadership and have placed it in context of the many other factors that contributed to the victory, such as strength
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throughout history. One such dictator was Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union who kept the people under his rule in an iron fisted regime. Under this regime millions of people were negatively affected. Stalin’s dictatorship lasted from 1929 to 1953; during this time he turned the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower. However, he reigned by terror and millions of his own people died (“Joseph Stalin”). In the late 1920’s Joseph Stalin wanted to change the Soviet Union from a peasant
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Great Purge of the 1930’s Joseph Stalin once said “A death solves all problems no man no problem,” this way of thinking led to the Great Purge of the 1930’s. Joseph Stalin executed people that he thought were traitors The Purge of the the 1930’s began with Stalin becoming the leader of Russia, ended in executions of so called traitors, and George Orwell’s Animal Farm symbolizes this with the executions of the animals. Before Stalin became the leader of Russia he was on the first Central Committee
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What is the definition of a leader? A leader is a person who leads or guides a group, organization, or country. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were both leaders, but they both lead their people in a different way. What makes them alike and different are their political beliefs, ways they treat citizens, and their goals as a leader. Adolf Hitler believed many things and he also stuck by what he believed. Hitler believed in creating national socialism. He also believed all Jews were evil and the
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It was Stalin’s’ forced famine in Ukraine. The main reason it stuck out was the fact that it isn’t as well known as others even though it was just as horrible as the rest. Communist Josef Stalin intentionally starved approximately five million people in Ukraine and around two million others in other areas. Stalin also ordered the deaths of anyone who did not give up their livestock to what they called the collective farms. Thousands were killed for hiding grain, slaughtering livestock, and burning
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11/12/14 CONTENT INQUIRY To what extent did Joseph Stalin’s reign affect Russia? After the Death of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin joined forces with the Soviet communist politicians Grigory Zinovyev and Leon Kamenev. Once the three threw out Trotsky from the political arena Stalin completely flipped the table of his posse. Now aligned with Nikolay Buhharin and Aleksey Rykov, Stalin manipulated his former partners and turned all against each other while he succeeded. In 1929 he seen himself as “Lenin’s recognized successor and the sole
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Both Stalin and Napoleon were unconcerned about debates and ideas. Stalin used power for his own sake and by 1927 had taken over the Communist Party by brutal means. Napoleon’s dogs reflect Stalin’s KGB, the secret police that he used to execute all people opposing his plans. Napoleon gains control over Animal Farm while pretending to improve Animal’s lives. Stalin used a lot of propaganda (represented by Squealer in the novel) to show
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To what extent were Stalin’s purges driven by a wish to eliminate former political rivals? Late 1934, Stalin introduced political terror which cost millions of lives and left 12 million people in forced-labour camps. There were several reasons for Stalin’s new policy including the events leading up to the feeling that his political partners could no longer be trusted, Stalin’s personal paranoia which had been built up further by the NKVD, the ambitious economic aims and finally the removal of his
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lacking empathy and remorse. A totalitarian leader, Stalin is an example of a psychopath furthermore in the article the five year plans- builders the White Sea canal said" these prisoners were supposed to receive more food and new clothing every year since their work was deemed so important, but this didn't happen. Their living conditions were substandard" this reveals how Stalin use prisoners to do a job and didn't receive any profit. Stalin didn't show any remorse or empathy but use them to accomplish
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ultimate goals. Snowball's plans for the windmill and programs reflect Trotsky's Marxist character and ideas about the best ways to transform Marx's theories into their way of life. Trotsky was also the leader of Lenin's Red Army, as Snowball directs the army of animals that repel Jones and the other farmers. Eventually, Trotsky was killed by the agents of Joseph Stalin, as Snowball is chased off of the farm by Napoleon , Orwell's model for Stalin. Like Napoleon, Stalin was unconcerned with equality
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people died in what was known the as the Holodomor. Josef Stalin and his gang decided the culture and spirit of Ukraine had to be destroyed and that the farmers and peasants needed to be disciplined. Through the horrors of starvation and destruction the Holodomor brought, Stalin’s aggression left Ukraine seemingly without hope and freedom. The Holodomor (translated to “murder by hunger”) was a disaster created by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Taking place in Ukraine between 1932-1933, many believe
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Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler Both Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler have similar characteristics as to their use of fear, propaganda, and economic control in the 20th century. They also had different views and aspects on their form of government, how they came to power, who they chose to eliminate, and their own form of secret police. To start, Stalin isn’t really his last name it actually refers to the meaning the man of steel because he wanted to be known as the most powerful dictator
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Joseph Stalin was the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. The Soviet Union played a major role in the defeat of Hitler’s Germany during World War II. This was due to Stalin’s leadership skills. Stalin rose to power in the 1920’s., and Hhe is known as one of history’s most prolific killers. His complete number of bloodshed will never likely be known. Joseph would eliminate anyone he thought was a threat to his power. He saw absolutely no value in human life. In fact, millions
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Preface This essay will be comparing and contrasting India and Russia on their history, culture, economics, and politics. Russia and India are two of the biggest countries and have two of the biggest economies in the world but they have vastly different economic and political structures and this difference has led to their very different roles and futures in the world. Russia is located in Eastern Europe and North Asia and is adjacent to fourteen countries and three oceans. Though it is the biggest
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thought to be the cleverest animals in the farm, however Napoleon was “the only Berkshire on the farm”, so he was treated as an elite. Orwell makes a clever, but not so obvious, connection with the Russian Revolution and Napoleon. Napoleon represents Stalin in the Russian Revolution. Napoleon's removal of Snowball is like Stalin’s removal of Leon Trotsky from power in 1927 and his subsequent
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How for where economic problems responsible for Stalin’s decision to replace the NEP in 1928 with the Five-Year Plan? I believe that to great extent that their was alot of changes In 1928 the New Economic Policy was replaced with a Five Year Plan. As Soviet industry lagged well behind the Western European states in terms of productivity and quality. The Five Year Plans created targets for all sectors of Industry. These were set and monitored by central government with a view to improving the industrial
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an army in the Russian Civil War and had Stalin oppose him and Snowball lead the Battle of Cowshed and had Napoleon oppose him as well. They were both great speakers and had a way with words when it came to persuading their audience. They both also had a plan for their people “Trotsky proposed the five years plan and Snowball proposed the plan to build a windmill” (Leon Trotsky vs. Snowball). Their plans never became reality because they tried to fight Stalin and Napoleon for the USSR. Unfortunately
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