Joseph Stalin Dbq

Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili is the real name of one of the most important actors of the 20th century. When he joined the Bolshevik revolution he changed his name in Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, but the world knows him as Joseph Stalin. During Stalin’s regime, no one was allowed to pronounce Stalin’s original name. The action was considered disrespectful to the supreme leader, and a direct provocation to the nation. The October revolution was the baptism of one of the most ruthless leader of contemporary world history. Stalin was a real Bolshevik man, deeply committed to the cause and truly loyal to Lenin. Stalin was a Georgian man with the determination of a soldier; he was able and willing to do everything in order to become the supreme leader of the USSR. He knew that he had to slowly gain the confidence of the party, and then turn the leadership in his

Trotsky was an educated and respected Soviet leader. On the contrary to Stalin, he thought that in order to ensure Communism in the Soviet Union, the country had to support a full-scale communist revolution in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, Trotsky was not a stable and healthy man; he suffered of hysteria and terrible stomach pain that did not allow him to have a stable political life. Stalin was able to use this weakness to exclude Trotsky from the leadership of the party. With Trotsky, Stalin had to send a strong message to all his enemies. First, Trotsky was sent to exile and his philosophy became a crime in Russia. Then, Stalin started to eliminate Trotsky’s supporters and family affections. While Trotsky’s older sun, died during a suspicious surgery in Paris, the younger one was deported in a gulag. Nothing was enough for Stalin; first he had to inflict pain, then he wanted to see his enemies die. On the 20th of August, 1940, Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist Agent in his house in the suburbs of Mexico