[110] In June, he escaped the village and made it to Kotlas disguised as a woman and from there to Saint Petersburg. [413] This mixed approach began to change in December 1934, after prominent party member Sergey Kirov was murdered. Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. [111] In March 1910, he was arrested again and sent back to Solvychegodsk. [527] At Tehran, the trio agreed that to prevent Germany rising to military prowess yet again, the German state should be broken up. "[884] In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". [316] At his command, grain procurement squads surfaced across Western Siberia and the Urals, with violence breaking out between these squads and the peasantry. [712] This concept synthesised Marxist and Leninist ideas with nationalist ideals,[694] and served to discredit Trotskywho promoted the idea of "permanent revolution"by presenting the latter as a defeatist with little faith in Russian workers' abilities to construct socialism. [551], Stalin attended the Potsdam Conference in JulyAugust 1945, alongside his new British and U.S. counterparts, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and President Harry Truman. [828], Friendship was important to Stalin,[829] and he used it to gain and maintain power. [263] A compromise was reached, in which the federation would be renamed the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (USSR). [266] Some historians have questioned whether Lenin ever produced these, suggesting instead that they may have been written by Krupskaya, who had personal differences with Stalin;[254] Stalin, however, never publicly voiced concerns about their authenticity. [234] At the 9th Bolshevik Conference in late September, Trotsky accused Stalin of "strategic mistakes" in his handling of the war. Initially, Lenin's death was blamed on a series of strokes. [533] In 1944, the German armies were pushed out of the Baltic states (with the exception of the Ostland), which were then re-annexed into the Soviet Union. [665] The Chinese government instituted a period of official mourning for Stalin's death. [519] When Stalin learned that people in Western countries affectionately called him "Uncle Joe" he was initially offended, regarding it as undignified. [626] Stalin wanted to avoid direct Soviet conflict with the U.S., convincing the Chinese to aid the North. [692] Service argued that Stalin's Marxism was imbued with a great deal of Russian nationalism. Stalin later implanted the use of fear, as well as the use of a secret police force to keep the people in check. Since the end of his life there has been speculation that a mental illness contributed to Stalin's brutishness. [572] Academia and the arts were also allowed greater freedom than they had prior to 1941. [472] He increasingly focused on appeasement with the Germans to delay any conflict with them. [487], Going against the advice of Zhukov and other generals, Stalin emphasised attack over defence. [653] He was hand-fed using a spoon, given various medicines and injections, and leeches were applied to him. [134] Lenin, who encouraged Stalin to write an article on the subject,[135] wanted to attract those groups to the Bolshevik cause by offering them the right of secession from the Russian state, but also hoped they would remain part of a future Bolshevik-governed Russia. However, as many of the following . [27] He joined 600 trainee priests who boarded there,[28] and he achieved high grades. [317] Stalin announced that both kulaks and the "middle peasants" must be coerced into releasing their harvest. [530] Discussing the fate of the Balkans, later in 1944 Churchill agreed to Stalin's suggestion that after the war, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia would come under the Soviet sphere of influence while Greece would come under that of the West. Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union's sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. [463] The two states continued trading, undermining the British blockade of Germany. "[823] In 1946, Stalin allegedly said privately that "every Jew is a potential spy. [132] In January 1913, Stalin travelled to Vienna,[133] where he researched the 'national question' of how the Bolsheviks should deal with the Russian Empire's national and ethnic minorities. Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the U.S.S.R. from the mid 1920s till his death in 1953. No, I do not think that Stalin was a good leader. 6 December]1878[4][i] and baptised on 29 December. [229] On 16 July, the Central Committee decided to take the war into Polish territory. [50] Remaining underground, he helped plan a demonstration for May Day 1901, in which 3,000 marchers clashed with the authorities. [577] He demoted Molotov,[578] and increasingly favoured Beria and Malenkov for key positions. As leader of a highly centralised dictatorship Josef Stalin inevitably played a pivotal part in every area of the Soviet war effort during the Great Patriotic War (1941-45). [139] According to Montefiore, this was "Stalin's most famous work". [495] Responding to the invasion, the Soviets intensified their industrial enterprises in central Russia, focusing almost entirely on production for the military. [348] He warned of a "danger from the right", including in the Communist Party itself. [43] Stalin left the seminary in April 1899 and never returned. [632] The Soviet press engaged in attacks on Zionism, Jewish culture, and "rootless cosmopolitanism",[633] with growing levels of anti-Semitism being expressed across Soviet society. [649] In 1952, he also eliminated the Politburo and replaced it with a larger version which he called the Presidium. First, it is necessary to recognize the factors involved in this decision that will affect you. [624] The North Korean Army launched the Korean War by invading the south in June 1950, making swift gains and capturing Seoul. Joseph Stalin used savage tactics to keep his powers. [537] Roosevelt and Churchill conceded to Stalin's demand that Germany pay the Soviet Union 20billion dollars in reparations, and that his country be permitted to annexe Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in exchange for entering the war against Japan. [267], Lenin died in January 1924. "If Stalin was such a bad guy, why do all these people have to resort to attributing to him almost entirely quotes he didn't make, or manipulate his actual quotes just enough to make them seem evil?" Joseph Stalin 19 likes Like "We don't let them have ideas. [197] Socialist revolutionaries accused Stalin's talk of federalism and national self-determination as a front for Sovnarkom's centralising and imperialist policies. [235] Trotsky claimed that Stalin sabotaged the campaign by disobeying troop transfer orders. [605], Churchill observed that an "Iron Curtain" had been drawn across Europe, separating the east from the west. Theories proposed Stalin's involvement with Vladimir's death, in which Stalin later admitted to via letter. [364] Religion retained an influence over much of the population; in the 1937 census, 57% of respondents were willing to admit to being religious. [395] He declared that "socialism, which is the first phase of communism, has basically been achieved in this country". [692] The new state would then be able to ensure that all citizens had access to work, food, shelter, healthcare, and education, with the wastefulness of capitalism eliminated by a new, standardised economic system. [449], As a MarxistLeninist, Stalin considered conflict between competing capitalist powers inevitable; after Nazi Germany annexed Austria and then part of Czechoslovakia in 1938, he recognised a war was looming. "[921] In a 2017 interview, Putin added that while "we should not forget the horrors of Stalinism", the excessive demonization of "Stalin is a means to attack [the] Soviet Union and Russia". [301] Other important supporters on the Politburo were Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze,[302] with Stalin ensuring his allies ran the various state institutions. Conclusion. [938] In a 2016 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll, 38% of respondents had a negative attitude to Stalin, 26% a neutral one and 17% a positive, with 19% refusing to answer. [352] Aware that the ethnic Russian majority may have concerns about being ruled by a Georgian,[353] he promoted ethnic Russians throughout the state hierarchy and made the Russian language compulsory throughout schools and offices, albeit to be used in tandem with local languages in areas with non-Russian majorities. The question that needs to be asked is whether a mental illness can explain Stalin's ability to engage in such behavior. [92] In March 1907 she bore a son, Yakov. [584] Current estimates indicate that between one million and 1.5million people died from malnutrition or disease as a result. [454], As Britain and France seemed unwilling to commit to an alliance with the Soviet Union, Stalin saw a better deal with the Germans. Conversely, his regime has been described as totalitarian, and has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repression, ethnic cleansing, wide-scale deportation, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines that killed millions. This has been a period replete with events of a decisive nature. [555], After the war, Stalin wasaccording to Serviceat the "apex of his career". [501] The Internationale was dropped as the country's national anthem, to be replaced with a more patriotic song. [499] They achieved high levels of industrial productivity, outstripping that of Germany. [617] Across Eastern Europe, the Soviet model was enforced, with a termination of political pluralism, agricultural collectivisation, and investment in heavy industry. [910], Shortly after his death, the Soviet Union went through a period of de-Stalinization. [461] On 28 September, Germany and the Soviet Union exchanged some of their newly conquered territories; Germany gained the linguistically Polish-dominated areas of Lublin Province and part of Warsaw Province while the Soviets gained Lithuania. [467] In June 1940, the Red Army occupied the Baltic states, which were forcibly merged into the Soviet Union in August;[468] they also invaded and annexed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, parts of Romania. This purge left his military in bad shape when war came, stripped of many of its most capable officers, but just another day for "The Man of Steel." [822] After Stalin's death, Khrushchev claimed that Stalin encouraged him to incite anti-Semitism in Ukraine, allegedly telling him that "the good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews. 1. [556] In June 1945, Stalin adopted the title of Generalissimus,[558] and stood atop Lenin's Mausoleum to watch a celebratory parade led by Zhukov through Red Square. Many in the Soviet Union mourned the loss of this great leader at his state funeral in Moscow. "[886] McDermott stated that Stalin had "concentrated unprecedented political authority in his hands. [412], Stalin often gave conflicting signals regarding state repression. Comrades! [464], The Soviets further demanded parts of eastern Finland, but the Finnish government refused. Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941. [804] Little of this was fiction,[805] although he could cite passages from Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Walt Whitman by heart. [290], In late 1924, Stalin moved against Kamenev and Zinoviev, removing their supporters from key positions. Since the 1920s, he'd ruled with an iron fist. [336] In November 1929 Stalin removed him from the Politburo. [795] Like all Bolshevik leaders, Stalin believed that reading could help transform not just people's ideas and consciousness, but human nature itself. Amid the war, the Soviets annexed the Baltic states and Bessarabia and North Bukovina, subsequently establishing Soviet-aligned governments throughout Central and Eastern Europe and in parts of East Asia. [667], Stalin left neither a designated successor nor a framework within which a peaceful transfer of power could take place. [245] In mid-1921, Stalin returned to the southern Caucasus, there calling on Georgian Communists to avoid the chauvinistic Georgian nationalism which marginalised the Abkhazian, Ossetian, and Adjarian minorities in Georgia. [862] One of them, Konstantin Kuzakov, later taught philosophy at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute, but never met Stalin. [699] After the October Revolution, they continued to have differences. [206] At the same time, he disregarded orders and repeatedly threatened to resign when affronted. There was a power struggle among the Soviet Communist Party elite to succeed Stalin after his death in 1953. Widely considered to be one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Stalin was the subject of a pervasive personality cult within the international MarxistLeninist movement, which revered him as a champion of the working class and socialism. "[546], With Germany defeated, Stalin switched focus to the war with Japan, transferring half a million troops to the Far East. [146] In August, he arrived in the village of Monastyrskoe, although after four weeks was relocated to the hamlet of Kostino. [74] Georgia was particularly affected. [737][738] His mustached face was pock-marked from smallpox during childhood; this was airbrushed from published photographs. [347], In 1928, Stalin declared that class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify as socialism developed. [262] Lenin accused Stalin of "Great Russian chauvinism"; Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism". [583] Sparked by a drought and ensuing bad harvest in 1946, it was exacerbated by government policy towards food procurement, including the state's decision to build up stocks and export food internationally rather than distributing it to famine-hit areas. [48] By this point, the empire's secret police, the Okhrana, were aware of Stalin's activities in Tiflis' revolutionary milieu. Stalin promotes an image of himself as a great benevolent leader and hero of the Soviet Union. [611], In October 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong took power in China. Stalin allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to retain the churches it had opened during the war. [67] He called for the Georgian Marxist movement to split from its Russian counterpart, resulting in several RSDLP members accusing him of holding views contrary to the ethos of Marxist internationalism and calling for his expulsion from the party; he soon recanted his opinions. [704] In his words, "the people need a Tsar, whom they can worship and for whom they can live and work". [208] Believing that victory was assured by numerical superiority, he sent large numbers of Red Army troops into battle against the region's anti-Bolshevik White armies, resulting in heavy losses; Lenin was concerned by this costly tactic. In 1952, Stalin's last book, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, was published. [69] Stalin detested many of the Mensheviks in Georgia and aligned himself with the Bolsheviks. [787] He was capable of self-righteous indignation,[788] and was resentful,[789] and vindictive,[790] holding on to grudges for many years. [906] Historian and archival researcher Stephen G. Wheatcroft and Michael Ellman attribute roughly 3million deaths to the Stalinist regime, including executions and deaths from criminal negligence. [287] Stalin built up a retinue of his supporters in the Central Committee,[288] while the Left Opposition were gradually removed from their positions of influence. [106] In early 1908, he travelled to the Swiss city of Geneva to meet with Lenin and the prominent Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov, although the latter exasperated him. [355] Conservative social policies were promoted to enhance social discipline and boost population growth; this included a focus on strong family units and motherhood, re-criminalisation of homosexuality, restrictions placed on abortion and divorce, and abolition of the Zhenotdel women's department. [764] Stalin had a complex mind,[765] great self-control,[766] and an excellent memory. [795] He favoured historical studies, keeping up with debates in the study of Russian, Mesopotamian, ancient Roman, and Byzantine history. IMO, Stalin was a very fair leader. From 1934 to 1940 Stalin had vast numbers of government, party, and army officials murdered to satisfy his paranoid delusions that everyone was out to get him. [849] In later life, he disapproved of Svetlana's various suitors and husbands, putting a strain on his relationship with her. [877] Various biographers have described him as a dictator,[878] an autocrat,[879] or accused him of practising Caesarism. the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. [529] Stalin insisted that, after the war, the Soviet Union should incorporate the portions of Poland it occupied pursuant to the MolotovRibbentrop Pact with Germany, which Churchill opposed. [96] After the heist, Stalin settled in Baku with his wife and son. [151][152], In Kureika, Stalin lived among the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak peoples,[153] and spent much of his time fishing. [368], Stalin faced problems in his family life. [780] Stalin denied to foreign visitors that he was a dictator, stating that those who labelled him such did not understand the Soviet governance structure. [556] Within the Soviet Union he was widely regarded as the embodiment of victory and patriotism. Asatar Bair, a self . [326] Although officially voluntary, many peasants joined the collectives out of fear they would face the fate of the kulaks; others joined amid intimidation and violence from party loyalists. [469] The Soviets sought to forestall dissent in these new East European territories with mass repressions. PM Modi's advice to BJP workers: 'Don't make anti-Muslim remarks' Views: 264. [88] At the conference, the RSDLP then led by its Menshevik majority agreed that it would not raise funds using armed robbery. [611] It was aimed for economic autarky within the Eastern Bloc. Stalin, in his tweet described Yadav as a tall socialist leader. In his governance, Stalin was inspired by the ideologies of both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin and merged to two to form the Stalinism ideology, a form of socialism that . On the one hand, you can argue that Stalin was clearly an effective leader. [545] Stalin refused to punish the offenders. [376], Within the Soviet Union, there was widespread civic disgruntlement against Stalin's government. [795] Other historians linked his brutality not to any personality trait, but to his unwavering commitment to the survival of the Soviet Union and the international MarxistLeninist cause. [286] The Left Opposition believed the NEP conceded too much to capitalism; Stalin was called a "rightist" for his support of the policy. 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", "A Tale of "Two Totalitarianisms": The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism", "Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 19311933", "Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data. [933] A 2017 Pew Research survey had 57% of Georgians saying he played a positive role in history, compared to 18% of those expressing the same for Mikhail Gorbachev. [880] He has also been labelled a "red fascist". [477] Despite intelligence agencies repeatedly warning him of Germany's intentions, Stalin was taken by surprise. After Stalin's death in 1953, he was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who subsequently denounced his rule and initiated the de-Stalinisation of Soviet society. Stalin and a fellow senior Bolshevik Leon Trotsky both endorsed Lenin's plan of action, but it was initially opposed by Kamenev and other party members. [124] In July, he arrived at the Siberian village of Narym,[125] where he shared a room with a fellow Bolshevik Yakov Sverdlov. [645] The amount of written material that he produced also declined. [416] State repression intensified after Kirov's death;[417] Stalin instigated this, reflecting his prioritisation of security above other considerations. [547] Stalin was pressed by his allies to enter the war and wanted to cement the Soviet Union's strategic position in Asia. [405] At the Communist International's 7th Congress, held in JulyAugust 1935, the Soviet government encouraged Marxist-Leninists to unite with other leftists as part of a popular front against fascism. By mid-1928 he was unable to rally sufficient support in the party to oppose the reforms. [504] Comintern was dissolved in 1943,[505] and Stalin encouraged foreign MarxistLeninist parties to emphasise nationalism over internationalism to broaden their domestic appeal. [645] In 1950, Stalin issued the article "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics", which reflected his interest in questions of Russian nationhood. Stalin was a broad fellow, with a very heavily pock-marked face". However these factors aided him to become future leader of Russia. Reuters. . [8] He was their only child to survive past infancy. [613] In accordance with their earlier agreements, the Western powers expected Poland to become an independent state with free democratic elections. [689] He also believed that this proletarian state would need to introduce repressive measures against foreign and domestic "enemies" to ensure the full crushing of the propertied classes,[690] and thus the class war would intensify with the advance of socialism. Some of the photos may be from earlier dates, but it is believed that this photo of Stalin was taken in 1893. [446] As it wound down, Stalin sought to deflect responsibility from himself,[447] blaming its "excesses" and "violations of law" on Yezhov. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's ideology. [779] He lacked compassion,[785] something Volkogonov suggested might have been accentuated by his many years in prison and exile,[786] although he was capable of acts of kindness to strangers, even amid the Great Terror. [693] During the period of his revolutionary activity, Stalin regarded some of Lenin's views and actions as being the self-indulgent activities of a spoiled migr, deeming them counterproductive for those Bolshevik activists based within the Russian Empire itself. Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922 and took over as the effective leader of the nation following Lenin's death in 1924. [243] Stalin opposed the idea of separate Georgian, Armenian, and Azeri autonomous republics, arguing that these would likely oppress ethnic minorities within their respective territories; instead he called for a Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. [942], "Stalin" redirects here. [647] In October 1952, Stalin gave an hour and a half speech at the Central Committee plenum. Stalin contained a lot of bad leadership characteristics but I have cut it down to some of the worst in my opinion. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, massacres, and detention and interrogation by . He further states the estimate is far lower than the estimates of 20million or above which were made before access to the archives. As a result of his Five-Year Plans, the country underwent agricultural collectivisation and rapid industrialisation, creating a centralised command economy. Because Stalin was not diagnosed during his life, we can never be sure. 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