Among the many dictators the world has seen, Joseph Stalin is one of the very well known. But he is not known for doing good. Which is very common when you think about history and the different dictators. Most of them spread terror by harsh rulings and brutal demands. While dictators may not have been very leaders persay. They were leaders nonetheless. Ones who knew how to make people follow them. Making them good leader. So without further ado, Joseph Stalin.
Joseph Stalin was born on December 18th in the year 1879. His name was originally Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He was born in the town Gori, Georgia. Stalin was a very frail child. During his childhood he had a few accidents, one which left his face scarred from smallpox. As a child he was also bullied a lot, this began his search in life for greatness and respect. Further into his childhood he received a scholarship to a seminary to study for the priesthood in the Georgian Orthodox Church. Here he studied to become a priest, but ended up becoming interested in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. During his time at the seminary he missed too many exams, so he was expelled in 1899. During his time out of the seminary he became more involved in criminal activity. Then in 1906 Stalin married a seamstress and had two sons. Then she died and he remarried to the daughter of a Russian revolutionary, she later committed suicide. Stalin also fathered multiple other children out of wedlock. He took the name Stalin which means steel in Russian. Around this time the Soviet government was going through a violent period. At which point they created the position that gave stalin his power.
Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip on society in ord...
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...o rule the Soviet Union by establishing communist parties all over Eastern Europe. These parties followed him. He prosecuted a reign of terror, continued with pueges and exiles to labor camps. Within anything he had control over he diminished all Western Europe influence or any other foreign dissent. And in 1949 he led Soviet Russia into the nuclear age by exploding an atomic bomb. The following year he gave permission to Communist leader Kim II Sung to invade the united states. This ignited the Korean war.
As Stalin grew older he also became more paranoid, his health from there decreased and he died of stroke at the age of 74. For a while his body was preserved in a museum but then removed and buried near the Kremlin walls as part of the de-Stalinization. It was estimated that he was responsible for the deaths of approximately 20 million people during his rule.
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929-1953. Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party, becoming a Soviet dictator after
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death in 1953. But how is it that Stalin emerged as the new leader of
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Joseph Stalin once said, “Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.” He followed his philosophy throughout his rule. Joseph Stalin was a cruel Russian man who ruled the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) from 1941 to 1953, many have idolized Joseph Stalin, while others have hated him. Joseph stalin grew up extremely poor and by his ultimate determination to transform the USSR, he became a ruler of a very powerful union. His goal was to positively transform the USSR from a peasant society to an industrial superpower. Joseph Stalin ran a government of fascism, killed millions, ruled in terror, took over agriculture by killing millions, and focused on running a government with complete power and turn it into an industrial
Stalin later died on March 5th. It was said that he died peacefully in his bed but in fact that was only a myth. Stalin actually died from a brain hemorrhaged which started from a stroke first on March 1st 1953. There were also times before this where he had a stroke but there was always medication there for him in time to be able to treat him. He one day had a stroke and just collapsed and that was the first sign of it being very serious at this point. When he collapsed there was an alert sent out to all his doctors so they could get there with the medication, but they didn’t get it in time. The doctors were all out on purge missions.(“Death of Stalin”)
For most people that know who Joseph Stalin was, they can agree on one thing: Stalin was one of the most brutal and ruthless leaders that mankind has ever seen. He is known as the instigator and leader of the Reign of Terror, which incorporated extremely horrifying purges. These purges have been estimated to have killed five times as many people as the Holocaust. The purges also helped him establish his power base, which allowed him to build one of the most powerful countries in its day and age. But he was not born evil, in fact, when he was a child, family and friends said he was shy. This does not mean he didn’t have a bad childhood, which happened quite often in rural Georgia. The pain of his childhood built as the years went by. Growing up admiring people like Karl Marx, Machiavelli, and Ivan the Terrible only stoked the fire even more. I believe that Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror can be traced directly back to his brutal childhood and complete belief in Marxist principles.
Stalin was “born in Gori, Georgia” as the third and only surviving child of a “cobbler and ex-serf”(Compton’s 403). His true name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. “In 1912 he took the alias of ‘Stalin’, from the Russian word stal, meaning ‘steel”, hence his nickname “Man of Steel”(Compton’s 402). Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity, where he was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students. In 1899, just about the time of graduation, he gave up his religious education and to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1902 Stalin was hunted down and arrested by the imperial police for organizing a large worker’s demonstration. A year later he was sentenced to “exile in the Russian region of Siberia, but soon managed to escape and was back in Georgia by early 1904”(Archer 58). When the Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin sided with the Bolsheviks, who just happened to be led by Vladimir Lenin. Stalin immediately became a staunch follower of Lenin, studying his every move. He did marry in 1905 but his beloved bride died of tuberculosis two years later. Their son, Yasha, died later in a Nazi Prison camp during World War II. After the Bolshevik’s Civil War victory, Stalin became highly organized and was elected secretary of the Communist Party. “After Lenin’s death, Stalin gradually isolated and shunned his political rivals, especially Leon Trotsky, and by the end of 1929 Joseph Stalin had succeeded in eliminating his opponents and became the supreme leader of the USSR” (Compton’s 404).
From the beginning of time to the darkest days in history, people have managed to see light. Within these dark times, a great deal of violence was cast upon the world, but light and peace always prevailed. If it were not for these two leaders, history would have been completely different. Even though both had very different political views, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin will all forever be known as two of the most feared totalitarian leaders in history.
In the beginning Josef Stalin was a worshiper of his beloved Vladimir Lenin. He followed his every move and did as he said to help establish and lead the Bolshevik party. Much of the early part of his political career was lost due to his exile to Siberia for most of World War I. It wasn’t until 1928, when he assumed complete control of the country were he made most of his success. After Lenin’s death in January 1924, Stalin promoted his own cult followings along with the cult followings of the deceased leader. He took over the majority of the Socialists now, and immediately began to change agriculture and industry. He believed that the Soviet Union was one hundred years behind the West and had to catch up as quickly as possible. First though he had to seal up complete alliance to himself and his cause.
Stalin was able to damage Trotsky’s reputation and political prestige, by tricking Trotsky for not showing up at Lenins funeral. After Lenins death, on the 21st of January 1924, on over three days, about three and a half million people queued to see Lenins body. Although many people felt hatred towards the regime, many felt a bona fide affection towards Lenin, which was comparable with the affection the people had to the Romanov dynasty, before the October Revolution. Throughout Lenins funeral, Stalin hoped that he could strengthen his position in the Party and remove Trotsky from his powerful position, which he was in. Trotsky turned ill just before Lenin’s death, and had settled in the south of Russia, to recover. Stalin contacted Trotsky about Lenins death and meant that Trotsky would not make it to the funeral. For Trotsky not attending the funeral, caused his reputation and political prestige, within the party, to be damaged. During Lenins funeral, Stalin made a speech referring t...
Joseph Stalin is a polarizing figure. Decades after his death his legacy still continues to create debate about his tumultuous years as the leader of the Soviet Union. This is evident throughout the four documents while some praise Stalin as impeccable others criticize his policies and lack of political, economic, and social progress during his regime. Even though Stalin was behind various violations of human rights he was able to maintain the Soviet Union during a time of turmoil both domestically and internationally as a result he has earned notoriety as a great leader and advocate for Marxist ideology.
Joseph Stalin's Leadership Through World War Two Stalin (1927-1953) led the Soviet State through the challenges of World War II. Although the war was a terrible drain on the already impoverished and exhausted society, it resulted, paradoxically in strengthening the Soviet dictatorship. The war distracted the Soviet people from Stalin's excesses in previous years and generated patriotism and national unity. It also greatly strengthened the Soviet military. The Soviet Union emerged from the war as second in power only to the United States.
I think Adolf Hitler is the one. Adolf Hitler was one of the 20th century’s most powerful dictators. He was responsible for World War II and the death of millions. Hitler saw a nation in despair and used this as an opportunity to gain political power. He saw a nation of unemployed and hungry citizens and promised them economic prosperity in return for absolute power. Someone once said “The Nazis rose to power on the empty stomachs of the German people”. Although he did not live a very long life, during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. I am sure that he is a great leader.