Joseph Stalin Cruelty

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On 18th December in 1879, in the Russian peasant village of Gori, Georgia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, known as Joseph Stalin was born. The son of Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and Ketevan Geladze, a washerwoman, Joseph was a frail child. At 7, he contracted smallpox, leaving his face scarred. A few years later he was injured in a carriage accident which left his arm slightly deformed (some accounts state his arm trouble was a result of blood poisoning from the injury). The other village children treated him cruelly, instilling in him a sense of inferiority. Because of this, Joseph began a quest for greatness and respect. He also developed a cruel streak for those who crossed him. These aspects may reflect the cruelty of his rudeness. …show more content…

Later he was appointed secretary of the Politburo of the Central Committee; he remained in this position for the rest of his life. At the end of July he presented the central report to the VI Congress of the Soviet Party, in which the insurrection against the provisional government was chosen. According to various sources, Stalin played only a minor role in the October Revolution while it was completed and the Bolsheviks were in …show more content…

As a result, the Union went from being a mostly agrarian society to a large industrial power, which was the basis of its emergence as the second largest economy in the world after World War II. A planned economy consists of the partial or total substitution of the free market, establishing in its place the centralized allocation of resources by the State. In a planned economy, economic variables such as production, exchange, consumption, prices or wages are defined by the government structure, through direct or indirect state intervention on economic factors. And the Five Year Plans consisted in planning the economy every five years to aid in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet

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