Joseph Stalin
... escape, however, and was back in Georgia by early 1904. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions in 1903, Stalin was drawn to the more militant Bolsheviks, who were led by Vladimir Lenin. In Georgia, where Menshevism predominated, Stalin soon ...
... escape, however, and was back in Georgia by early 1904. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions in 1903, Stalin was drawn to the more militant Bolsheviks, who were led by Vladimir Lenin. In Georgia, where Menshevism predominated, Stalin soon ...
What role did ideology play in Stalin*s rise to power?
... • Many new members of the Communist Party after 1924 were workers and peasants with little or no knowledge of Marxism – therefore they were easily persuaded by Stalin’s arguments. ...
... • Many new members of the Communist Party after 1924 were workers and peasants with little or no knowledge of Marxism – therefore they were easily persuaded by Stalin’s arguments. ...
Animal Farm Power Point
... the government in October 1917. Lenin was the President, Trotsky the Commissar for Foreign Affairs. ...
... the government in October 1917. Lenin was the President, Trotsky the Commissar for Foreign Affairs. ...
Slide 1
... Stalin’s Rise to Power • Lenin appointed Stalin General Secretary of Central Committee in 1922 in a move to isolate Trotsky • He later regretted that fateful decision and wrote his testament intending to have Stalin removed • Another besetting stroke prevented him from carrying out Lenin’s testamen ...
... Stalin’s Rise to Power • Lenin appointed Stalin General Secretary of Central Committee in 1922 in a move to isolate Trotsky • He later regretted that fateful decision and wrote his testament intending to have Stalin removed • Another besetting stroke prevented him from carrying out Lenin’s testamen ...
The Russian Revolution
... government and was portrayed as a failure He was thought of as weak and contradicting ...
... government and was portrayed as a failure He was thought of as weak and contradicting ...
Marcus K
... Student Activity: Stalin group simulation-students break up into groups of 4 and conduct a simulation deciding what they would do if they were the leader of the Kremlin at Yalta. Each student of the group will have a role; one will be Stalin while the other three will act as his General, Foreign Min ...
... Student Activity: Stalin group simulation-students break up into groups of 4 and conduct a simulation deciding what they would do if they were the leader of the Kremlin at Yalta. Each student of the group will have a role; one will be Stalin while the other three will act as his General, Foreign Min ...
The Stalin Years - extra ppt File
... Stalin controlled the cultural life of the Soviet Union by promoting russification, the process of making of a culture more Russian. ...
... Stalin controlled the cultural life of the Soviet Union by promoting russification, the process of making of a culture more Russian. ...
Russian Revolution DBQ - 2014
... Supported by an overwhelming majority of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and basing itself on the victorious insurrection of the workers and the garrison of Petrograd, the Congress hereby resolves to take government power in its own hands. The Provisional Government is deposed and most of its me ...
... Supported by an overwhelming majority of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and basing itself on the victorious insurrection of the workers and the garrison of Petrograd, the Congress hereby resolves to take government power in its own hands. The Provisional Government is deposed and most of its me ...
Unit Outline
... Monday February 7th Lenin video DUE: Term Set # 1 Tuesday February 8th Stalin: A critical look at Stalin’s brutal reign Read pages 395-400 Thursday February 10th Stalin: Video & discussion Friday February 11th Lenin Primary Source: What is to be Done? (1902) ...
... Monday February 7th Lenin video DUE: Term Set # 1 Tuesday February 8th Stalin: A critical look at Stalin’s brutal reign Read pages 395-400 Thursday February 10th Stalin: Video & discussion Friday February 11th Lenin Primary Source: What is to be Done? (1902) ...
Totalitarianism: a government that takes total, centralized state
... in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Jospeh Stalin during the late 1930s, or basically the campaign of terror. It was directed to eliminate anyone who threatened Stalin’s power. It resulted in 400,000 people ...
... in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Jospeh Stalin during the late 1930s, or basically the campaign of terror. It was directed to eliminate anyone who threatened Stalin’s power. It resulted in 400,000 people ...
political repression in the Soviet
... the Russian Empire (today in Georgia) he received a scholarship to attend the Tiflis Spiritual Seminary He anonymously published poetry in Georgian in the local press and engaged in student politics . joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, a Marxist group. His skill, charm, and street-sm ...
... the Russian Empire (today in Georgia) he received a scholarship to attend the Tiflis Spiritual Seminary He anonymously published poetry in Georgian in the local press and engaged in student politics . joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, a Marxist group. His skill, charm, and street-sm ...
Russia Under Stalin - Marblehead High School
... – Josef Stalin: ran day-to-day workings of Bolshevik party under Lenin ...
... – Josef Stalin: ran day-to-day workings of Bolshevik party under Lenin ...
Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
... died in 1924, Stalin fought tooth and nail to replace him as Soviet premier. By 1928, he rose to undisputed leadership. As soon as he came to power, Stalin called for a Soviet industrial revolution. In 1929 he took control of the secret police. Stalin used "total terror" to impose his radical polici ...
... died in 1924, Stalin fought tooth and nail to replace him as Soviet premier. By 1928, he rose to undisputed leadership. As soon as he came to power, Stalin called for a Soviet industrial revolution. In 1929 he took control of the secret police. Stalin used "total terror" to impose his radical polici ...
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin (birth surname: Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state.Stalin was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution, alongside Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Sokolnikov and Bubnov. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms (in the postscript of his testament) and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.Under Stalin's rule, the concept of ""Socialism in One Country"" became a central tenet of Soviet society, contrary to Leon Trotsky's view that socialism must be spread through continuous international revolutions. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power. However, the economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in Gulag labour camps. The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932–33, known as the Holodomor in Ukraine. Between 1934 and 1939 he organized and led a massive purge (known as ""Great Purge"") of the party, government, armed forces and intelligentsia, in which millions of so-called ""enemies of the working class"" were imprisoned, exiled or executed, often without due process. Major figures in the Communist Party and government, and many Red Army high commanders, were killed after being convicted of treason in show trials.In August 1939, after failed attempts to conclude anti-Hitler pacts with other major European powers, Stalin entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence and territory within Eastern Europe, resulting in their invasion of Poland in September of that year, but Germany later violated the agreement and launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Despite heavy human and territorial losses, Soviet forces managed to halt the Nazi incursion after the decisive Battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. After defeating the Axis powers on the Eastern Front, the Red Army captured Berlin in May 1945, effectively ending the war in Europe for the Allies. The Soviet Union subsequently emerged as one of two recognized world superpowers, the other being the United States. Communist governments loyal to the Soviet Union were established in most countries freed from German occupation by the Red Army, which later constituted the Eastern Bloc. Stalin also fostered close relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea.Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase, which saw a significant rise in tension with the Western world that would later be known as the Cold War. During this period, the USSR became the second country in the world to successfully develop a nuclear weapon, as well as launching the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature in response to another widespread famine and the Great Construction Projects of Communism.In the years following his death, Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, most notably in 1956 when his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization. Stalin remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant. However, popular opinion within the Russian Federation is mixed. The exact number of deaths caused by Stalin's regime is still a subject of debate, but it is widely agreed to be in the order of millions.