those he considered should be purged. Stalin would make additions or detractions from the list and intimately micromanage punishments. On a few occasions‚ Stalin was even reported to have interrogated a few prisoners himself. Although‚ Lenin used purges occasionally to protect his power‚ never were such programs engaged on this scale. One prominent political scientist defined Stalinism as being‚ “excess‚ extraordinary extremism”. Through his policies‚ Stalin cultivated a culture of paranoia and distrust
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portrayed elements of conservatism. Stalin’s social‚ economic‚ and political policies and actions that conserved parts of Lenin’s regime including the NKVD secret police that executed and exiled opposition to Stalin‚ slave labor in Gulag camps‚ the Great Purge which removed many members of the Communist Party and Red Army‚ and the continuation of Lenin’s New Economic Policy were more important than his progressive changes because they influenced his government the most. Stalin’s most significant progressive
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system‚ which were “Concentration camps were created in the Soviet Union shortly after the 1917 revolution”. (Gulag History.com). Another event instituted by Joseph Stalin that showed his totalitarian grip on his people was the institution of the Great Purge‚ which was a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist party from anyone that Stalin saw as a threat. His willingness to execute and get rid of those who rivaled him is an example of his method of fear instillation as a way to maintain power
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the struggle for power and was now dealing death blows to the opposition by organising uncontrolled terror at every level of society. The purges carried out within the party‚ the army‚ among members of the scientific community‚ artists and prominent cultural figures came to be known as the Great Terror. The term is actually bizarre; terror is hardly a rank great or small but absolute: once it has taken root in a social system it spreads and acquires a life of its own. The Terror did not stop until
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Collectivization”). This came at the cost of the agricultural industry‚ which suffered immense shortages‚ however this was the intent of Stalinist policy. After all‚ it was through collectivization that Stalin justified the removal‚ essentially a pre-purge‚ of the entire “kulak” (rich peasant) class‚ who Stalin claimed held the revolution back (Skocpol 230). While this was not an entirely new belief‚ Engels would write in response to Tchakov’s pamphlet on Russian wealthy peasants as being bloodsuckers
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How did Lenin and Stalin transform the society and economy of the USSR? After the devastation of World War I‚ the Revolution‚ and Civil War‚ Russia was a total wreck. Factories were in ruins and half the working class gone‚ either dead or returned to the farms. Millions had died‚ mainly from the famine and disease accompanying war. Two million more‚ mostly nobles‚ middle class‚ and intellectuals‚ had emigrated to other countries. Lenin returned to Russia from exile in 1917 and it was up to him
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and guile in order to gain his place at the top. Then‚ when he found his way to being the ruler of Russia‚ Stalin remained distant and separated from his people because of his unkempt‚ disheveled appearance and poor speaking skills – something most great leaders in history cannot do without. Stalin led his country as a terribly paranoid man whose decisions ended up killing millions of people and costing him the war. The only reason his people did not revolt was because Stalin cleverly devised a cult
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characterized as rapid industrialization‚ collectivized agriculture‚ great purges‚ and the extermination of opposition. Stalin’s rule could be proven both positively and negatively towards Russia. He powered the Russians military force but his methods negatively affected Russians. Stalin launched his first Five-Year Plan in 1928 by setting up a command economy. The purpose of the Five-Year plan was to create a road map for Stalin’s great goals of industrialization and the development of the Soviet Unions
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Josef Stalin was one of the most important members of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union succeed the Russian empire in 1922 and lasted until 1991. Stalin shaped the country in the 1930s and continued to help it thrive to victory helping to win the Second World War against Nazi Germany. I am going to concentrate on the myths surrounding Stalin during the Stalin era (1928-1941) and after his death in 1953. After Stalin’s death in 1953 there was no clear successor for his role in the Soviet Union
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he was fascinated by Russia being a schoolboy. Compared to their Western rivals Denis Healey admits that the great Soviet people seemed much superior‚ calling them film-makers of those days. The author says he was introduced with some examples of Russian Literature and Culture by his friend. But‚ he says‚ after the war his friend had disappeared‚ in all probability during the great purges. In the face of Mr. Healey it increased the bitter hostility for Soviet policies and made him feel animosity
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