How Did Joseph Stalin Come To Power
World War II: Josef Stalin
In 1917, Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicolas II until the Bolshevik party overthrew the Russian government by storming the palace in October commanded by Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky. The Tsar family, which had been crueling dictating for centuries, was finally overthrown which lead to the creation of U.S.S.R. or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1992, Stalin was became the general secretary of the Committee, but he isolated the other party members by betraying and manipulating them out of office including his arch-enemy Trotsky, who was eventually exiled in 1929, and became the uncontested leader of Soviet Union. This Union was founded on the protection of the working class and everyone worked together to make the country great. Stalin became very paranoid during his rule. He thought he was surrounded by Trotsky and Lenin …show more content…
The total cost of Soviet lives, both civilian and military, reached over approximately 40,000,000 deaths at the end of world war II. One in four Soviets died during this period and 1,710 towns and 70,000 villages were destroyed during the war campaign. Stalin killed millions and buried them in mass graves, sent soldiers to die without choice, and held POWs after the war. In Berlin, Russian soldiers were ordered perform “scorched Earth” operations and burned everything to dust and soldiers raped 10,000-1,000,000 women in Berlin after it was conquered. Hitler and Germany receive lots of flak from world war II and their atrocities, but Stalin was worse in many ways, he just kept everything secret and no one could oppose him. Stalin changed Russian history forever and changed the balance of world war II with the might of the Red army and went on to have a cold war with America with nuclear weaponry and raced America to moon. Without Stalin, the Americans probably couldnt have stopped Nazi Germany without the “sacrifice” of the russian
In 1917, Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicolas II until the Bolshevik party overthrew the Russian government by storming the palace in October commanded by Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky. The Tsar family, which had been crueling dictating for centuries, was finally overthrown which lead to the creation of U.S.S.R. or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1992, Stalin was became the general secretary of the Committee, but he isolated the other party members by betraying and manipulating them out of office including his arch-enemy Trotsky, who was eventually exiled in 1929, and became the uncontested leader of Soviet Union. This Union was founded on the protection of the working class and everyone worked together to make the country great. Stalin became very paranoid during his rule. He thought he was surrounded by Trotsky and Lenin …show more content…
The total cost of Soviet lives, both civilian and military, reached over approximately 40,000,000 deaths at the end of world war II. One in four Soviets died during this period and 1,710 towns and 70,000 villages were destroyed during the war campaign. Stalin killed millions and buried them in mass graves, sent soldiers to die without choice, and held POWs after the war. In Berlin, Russian soldiers were ordered perform “scorched Earth” operations and burned everything to dust and soldiers raped 10,000-1,000,000 women in Berlin after it was conquered. Hitler and Germany receive lots of flak from world war II and their atrocities, but Stalin was worse in many ways, he just kept everything secret and no one could oppose him. Stalin changed Russian history forever and changed the balance of world war II with the might of the Red army and went on to have a cold war with America with nuclear weaponry and raced America to moon. Without Stalin, the Americans probably couldnt have stopped Nazi Germany without the “sacrifice” of the russian