Joseph Stalin

Following the decline of Russian leader Vladimir Lenin’s health, Joseph Stalin stepped into the position of the general secretary of the Russian communist party in 1922 (Stock). This was the very beginning stage of Joseph Stalin’s enormous impact on the communist party, as well as the rest of the world. Although Stalin’s rule is sometimes considered extreme, Stalin had an enormous impression on Russian history as well as the collective history of the world. One of the most important things Joseph Stalin did was develop and enforce the Five-Year Plan. This was a plan creating boundaries and a clear plan that Russian business owners and economists had to follow. Joseph Stalin’s creation and involvement in the Five-Year Plan impacted the world
They found that collective farming was a great way of producing many crops. (Tucker 91) Collective farming is a communist-like way of farming where the communist state (in this case the USSR) provides land for farmers to use their own resources on and grow crops. Rather than working as enterprises, the government can let people farm by themselves, while obtaining the resources, the government needs to gain wealth. (Gardner and Lerman) Stalin advocated for an expansion of these collectivized farming operations, as organizers found that would lead them to become a major global superpower in those industries. (Tucker 92) Thus, Stalin created a plan called the Five-Year Plan. Stalin quickly collectivized farming and put the Five-Year Plan into play. “The plan focused primarily on heavy industry, seeking to increase coal and iron production and electric power. Stalin set seemingly unattainable production goals for the industrialization of the Soviet Union.” (Stock) At the beginning of the plan, Stalin set goals for all producers to achieve, attempting to expand the Soviet Union’s resources. This was the first step in many of Stalin’s to create economic plans for producers to
Apart from other people not sharing the communist beliefs, many thought Stalin’s rule was harsh and unfair. Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the communist party, gave a speech during a Soviet congress meeting following Stalin’s death. During this speech, Khrushchev quotes a letter from Lenin and says, “Comrade Stalin accumulated in his hands immeasurable power and I am not certain whether he will be able to use this power with the required care.… Stalin is excessively rude, and this defect, which can be freely tolerated in our midst and in contacts among us Communists, becomes a defect which cannot be tolerated in one holding the position of the Secretary General. Because of this, I propose that the comrades consider the method by which Stalin would be removed from this position and by which another man would be selected for it, a man who, above all, would differ from Stalin in only one direction, namely, greater tolerance, greater loyalty, greater kindness and a more considerate attitude toward the comrades, a less capricious temper, etc.” Even the previous leader of the Communist party thought Stalin was a harsh leader. Lenin attributed Stalin to being temperamental and because of this, declares he’s unfit in every way to become the Secretary General. Developing the Five-Year Plan, while