General Secretary of the Soviet Union‚ Josef Stalin encountered many social‚ economical and political problems which were left unsolved at the time of Lenin ’s premature death in 1924. Economic problems involving issues such as agriculture and industrialisation. Political problems related to politics‚ both in terms of foreign and domestic policy and also the military. Social problems being related to aspects of life such as education‚ religion and culture. Stalin had problems in all three areas‚ some of
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Life under Stalin became known as a “personality cult”. The state controlled all forms of education. In 1932‚ a program of discipline and education was introduced. Exams‚ banned under Lenin’s rule were reintroduced. The government decided how the subjects were to be taught‚ especially history involving Stalin’s involvement in the 1917 Revolution. The state also strictly censored books and Stalin ordered new books called “A Short History of the USSR‚” these books had to be used in the schools. “The
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part of man’s life and many great achievements are attained by overcoming the difficulties faced in our lifetime. However‚ the test of man’s character comes through the handling of power. A righteous and moral man wills not exploit its power as opposed to corrupt leader who will pursue his self-interests by misusing his power. Such assumptions can be made with the ruthless and mass murderer dictator‚ Joseph Stalin and the cruel tyrant from Shakespeare play Macbeth. Joseph Stalin is known as the
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STALIN. A GROUP OF CORE SUPPORTERS: Huge numbers of people‚ form those at the top right down to interrogators‚ torturers‚ guards and executioners‚ were willing to carry out Stalin’s orders. Local party bosses – little Stalins – often initiated their own terrors from below. Stalin ruled unchallenged with the help of his supporting clique – Molotov‚ Kaganovich‚ Mikoyan‚ Zhdanov‚ Voroshilov‚ Bulganin‚ Beria‚ Malenkov and Khrushchev. POLICE CONTROL BASED UPON TERROR: Five Year Plans for industry
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Between Stalin and Trotsky In 1921‚ Lenin’s health was delicate and fragile; he started suffering a series of strokes that in 1924 finally ended his life. In 1922 he “retired” from any business that had to do with the government. During this time he became more aware of the party’s weaknesses‚ and started to be conscious about the threat that Stalin supposed for not only the Bolsheviks‚ but for Russia’s future. Lenin wrote his “Letter to the Party Congress” in 1922‚ and alerted that Stalin was becoming
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A primary factor that led to the rise of Stalin was due to the weakness of Leon Trotsky‚ who was one of the strongest competitors that Stalin faced in succeeding Lenin as leader of the Communist Party. However‚ there are actions taken by Trotsky that weakened himself as an opposition. For example‚ Trotsky believed in permanent revolution‚ and he sought to promote and incite revolutions all over the world. However‚ he failed to convince his fellow Party members of his idea of world revolution. In
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the result of the popularity of his policies? Even though Stalin’s victory in the power struggle was partly due to his popular policies‚ it was not just this that allowed Stalin also because of the mistakes made by other rivals and factors that played into his hands. For example Trotsky was a former menshevik which helped Stalin accuse him of not been a true Bolshevik. There are many reasons that suggest Stalin’s victory in the power struggle was because his popular policies. For example Stalin’s
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1a) Life Under Suspicion captures the social constructs of young‚ lower class‚ males of color living in New York City within the perspective of the police force as well as individuals who do not live in an urban setting. Evidently‚ this demographic of people is perceived to not have and in reality lacks many privileges as a result of their lower positionality in society relative to Caucasian Americans. This reminds me of the video clip we viewed in class with people of different identities all aligned
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Monumental Changes: Or how the reaction to Stalin by three social groups illustrates the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s. Monumental Propaganda relates a bottom-up history of the Soviet Union from the end of WWII to Post-Socialist Russia of the 1990s. The story is presented from the perspective of an unwavering defender of the cultural mores of post-war Russia‚ Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina. It is through this outlook that the reader glimpses the political transformations
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Lenin also played an integral part in the dictator’s power grab. Stalin participated in the December 1904 oil worker strike in Baku‚ Georgia‚ which ended successfully later that month. It was the first time in Russian history that a collective bargaining agreement was signed between oil company owners and oil workers. With his newfound credibility‚ he wrote several popular articles speaking out against the current regime. Stalin also raised paramilitaries to spread propaganda. They were funded
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