What Was Joseph Stalin's Impact On Russia
Throughout history, the role of Joseph Stalin on Russia’s success has always been questioned upon. This role can be show through the many positive and negative aspects of his reign. The positive side included the strengthening of Russia’s military but the negative side, at the expense of his countries people. If we were to look at Stalin’s accomplishment, we could see that there was a majority of positive achievements over negative ones. Of the many accomplishments, the most prominent one is Stalin’s famous five year plans. These five year plans helped strengthen industrial and agricultural aspects of Russia as explained in Document 9. These changes could also be seen visually in Documents 2 3 and6 which show the industrial and agricultural
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We must remember to not brush over the negative aspects. First, Stalin developed his system of collective farming which combined once privately owned forms into large farms operated by the government. This put an end to individual profit and also an end to personal interest since the government had control of everything, As Stalin proclaimed in Document 4, he saids that with his new system, the state must come first, individuals second. Not only were the individuals of Russia undermined, they were tortured, executed or exiled if they dared oppose Stalin’s policies. Continuing with the system of collective farming, kulaks, rich farmers disliked Stalin’s system and openly resisted. Stalin immediately determined that the kulaks were a problem in his reign and that they must be eliminated. The kulaks were deported to forced labor camps or to Siberia. Stalin also used a forced famine in Ukraine to torture and control his people as stated in document 7. In addition, in order to control his population of people and provide positive views of himself, many posters such as the one shown in document 10 were shown to the public for that Stalin could gain liking. in addition, Stalin went as far as to use false trials to create and instill fear in his people. The accounts of the French ambassador as depicted the atrocities of such
We must remember to not brush over the negative aspects. First, Stalin developed his system of collective farming which combined once privately owned forms into large farms operated by the government. This put an end to individual profit and also an end to personal interest since the government had control of everything, As Stalin proclaimed in Document 4, he saids that with his new system, the state must come first, individuals second. Not only were the individuals of Russia undermined, they were tortured, executed or exiled if they dared oppose Stalin’s policies. Continuing with the system of collective farming, kulaks, rich farmers disliked Stalin’s system and openly resisted. Stalin immediately determined that the kulaks were a problem in his reign and that they must be eliminated. The kulaks were deported to forced labor camps or to Siberia. Stalin also used a forced famine in Ukraine to torture and control his people as stated in document 7. In addition, in order to control his population of people and provide positive views of himself, many posters such as the one shown in document 10 were shown to the public for that Stalin could gain liking. in addition, Stalin went as far as to use false trials to create and instill fear in his people. The accounts of the French ambassador as depicted the atrocities of such