Stalin Aka Joseph Stalin was a leader in the soviet union. He came after Lenin’s death. Stalin was not that good of a guy actually he kinda killed millions of people. But in some ways he actually helped the world. But Ooverall people see him as a bad person. His intentions were noble but how he enforced them is what failed. He was in general a bad person but he had his good parts but he has to be labeled as a villain. Joseph stalin was the 2nd leader of the soviet union. He took over with two other
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Why Did Stalin Become a Dictator? At the beginning of the 20th century‚ Russia was a very poor country. Most of the people were peasants‚ and there was very little industry. After the First World War‚ things only got worse; the army suffered many huge defeats. The poorest of the people were starving‚ due to a shortage of food. During the war‚ in 1917 the Communists came about by two important revolutions; they were led by Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which the state controls the
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Joseph Stalin Biography Introduction Early years Joseph Stalin was born in Gori‚ Georgia on the 21st December 1879. Stalin was born Losif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili‚ but later adopted the name “Stalin” which translates to ‘man of steel’ in Russian. Stalin was born into a poor family‚ his father a cobbler and his mother a washerwoman. he was the only son of Vissarion Dzhugashvili to survive. Stalin’s father passed away in 1891‚ His mother a religious and illiterate peasant woman sent her
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Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship was characterized by Russia’s ideological transformation of Communism under his reign. Widely regarded as a tyrant‚ Stalin was responsible for massive repression of his people. However Russians remember Stalin for his leadership‚ advances in technologies‚ and victory in World War II. His usage of powerful leadership attributes created fear and promoted a tense paranoid feeling during his dictatorship. Under his leadership‚ Russia experienced a return to pre-revolutionary
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Joseph Stalin‚ has been a great leader of the Soviet Union dating back to1929. Born on December 18th‚ 1879 to the Full name Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili he later shortened it to Joseph Stalin meaning “Man of Steel‚” derived form the Russian word “stal.”(Biography‚ 2011) Although Stalin did not begin ruling Russia at an early age his years of dictatorship did‚ starting back in 1912. From then on his leadership began to climb towards the high dominion he’s so well known for today! Stalin came
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Joseph Stalin actually killed more people than Adolf Hitler did. He was one of the most notorious leaders in the world’s history. He was the leader of the Soviet Union in World War II and during the height of the Cold War. He developed the Soviet nuclear program and put the Soviet territories into an economic downturn. I am in the Pentagon. My desk is cluttered with top secret files marked with red “Top Secret” stamps. The phone on my desk rings‚ and I pick it up quickly. It is the president
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Kiana Loustalot Period 3A DBQ Essay Response Stalin: Evaluation of His Leadership Joseph Stalin was a Russian Hitler‚ maybe even a little worse. During the time that Stalin was in control of Russia‚ he turned the Soviet Union into a modern super power. He did this by dramatically improving the Russian economy with his Five Year Plans. Stalin used many methods to break the Russian people. He also changed amount of industrial and agricultural buildup with his policy of collectivization. He organized
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The rise of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union for 31 years between 1922 and his death in 1953. During this time‚ he revolutionised the Russian economy with a combination of rapid industrialisation and centralised economic collectivism‚ reforms that in some instances caused massive devastation in rural parts of the country (including the famine of 1932-1933‚ in which up to 6m people starved to death). A hugely controversial figure on the global political
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1924-1953. Many political‚ social and economic changes occurred during this period. Joseph Stalin was a follower of Communism. He was actually thrown out of school for studying Marxism. Joseph Stalin was a communist. Stalin had rose to power by physically getting rid of his rivals. Joseph Stalin had killed many people. Some people say he killed more people than Hitler. He had killed his own people because they refused collectivization. Joseph Stalin came
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their people. Rulers did many things throughout the course of history to show and acquire dominance across their empire‚ Louis XIV of France & Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union are prime examples who used terror and manipulation to gain sovereignty of their empires. First‚ Louis XIV of France was an absolute ruler also known as the Sun King
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