How Did Joseph Stalin Rise To Power
Stalin Constitutes an Abuse of Power
Throughout history, power has been divided between multiple people, and with that a nation was usually led peacefully. However, the times that power was presented in a dictatorship, it was abused and created an oppressive nature within a nation. After rising to power in the Soviet Union, Stalin instilled fear amongst his people by promoting anti-semitism and by creating new policies in order for the people to blindly support him.
Around the 1920’s, Judaism was barely considered a religion in the Soviet Union, and anti semitism was a common practice. Stalin’s “purges of top Party leaders, however, severely and permanently limited Jewish participation in high levels of government,” (Salisbury) which ultimately showed the Soviet population that Stalin would go to any lengths to purify the population, starting with the people helping to govern it. If Jews could not participate in the government of the nation they lived in, then it contributed to lesser rights for the common population because they were not being represented to full potential. Jews were hardly given any of the basic …show more content…
This policy was known as collectivization and it changed agriculture completely by requiring farmers to use new machinery and to sell a portion of their outcome to the state at significantly low prices. The fact that farmers were not producing on their own individual farms and instead on collective farms where part of them went to the state showed a sense of ownership of the people. Stalin wanted to demonstrate his full extent of power by limiting the freedom of other, which contributes to an abuse of power, considering that people were being stripped of their basic
Throughout history, power has been divided between multiple people, and with that a nation was usually led peacefully. However, the times that power was presented in a dictatorship, it was abused and created an oppressive nature within a nation. After rising to power in the Soviet Union, Stalin instilled fear amongst his people by promoting anti-semitism and by creating new policies in order for the people to blindly support him.
Around the 1920’s, Judaism was barely considered a religion in the Soviet Union, and anti semitism was a common practice. Stalin’s “purges of top Party leaders, however, severely and permanently limited Jewish participation in high levels of government,” (Salisbury) which ultimately showed the Soviet population that Stalin would go to any lengths to purify the population, starting with the people helping to govern it. If Jews could not participate in the government of the nation they lived in, then it contributed to lesser rights for the common population because they were not being represented to full potential. Jews were hardly given any of the basic …show more content…
This policy was known as collectivization and it changed agriculture completely by requiring farmers to use new machinery and to sell a portion of their outcome to the state at significantly low prices. The fact that farmers were not producing on their own individual farms and instead on collective farms where part of them went to the state showed a sense of ownership of the people. Stalin wanted to demonstrate his full extent of power by limiting the freedom of other, which contributes to an abuse of power, considering that people were being stripped of their basic