History Essay: Why Stalin Not Trotsky Stalin’s race to become the all mighty ruler fully started after Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. With Lenin gone‚ Stalin started to eliminate the other members of the Communist Party: Trotsky‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev‚ Rykov‚ Tomsky and Bukharin. He very cleverly switched between the left wing and the right wing‚ by making alliances with one wing the suddenly breaking with them‚ only to join the other wing‚ going against everything that they had
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did Stalin win to be the leader of Russia? Stalin’s manipulative personality Joseph Stalin was known to have a manipulative personality. He was persuasive‚ educated‚ determined however also arrogant (due to his role as General Sectary). Also Lenin is rude as Lenin said in his testament “Stalin is too rude”. After Lenin died during the struggle for power Stalin was reasonably quiet at the beginning. This makes him sly and sneaky because we get the impression he is up to no good. Stalin also
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Joseph Stalin was a man who brought fear to the eyes of society. He was a ruthless leader who was determined to succeed no matter what the cost may be. However‚ he wasn’t always a man who brought fear to another mans eye‚ but a man most people would poke fun at. Sometimes he wasn’t even acknowledged would not even be acknowledge. Despite all of the abominable things he had done while in power. Stalin was able to transform a country that was behind the world in development and technology into a industrial
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fighting force; though‚ because of the actions and plans laid out by Stalin‚ the USSR was able to overcome and triumph over the technologically advanced nation. Along with the creation of the new state‚ new leaders and statesmen emerged from the great cauldron known as the Communist party‚ some of these included Lenin‚ Trotsky‚ and Stalin. Although there were many great leaders of the nation‚ this paper will consist of Stalin and what his impact on the Soviet Union was‚ as a result of the NEP and
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“ How did Stalin use propaganda to help him gain power?”. This topic will focus on how he used arts and media and how that helped him gain power.I chosen this topic because I’m interested on how he used propaganda to build himself up in the eyes of people. It’s was amazing on how Stalin managed to brainwash the people into thinking he was the defender of the people and even though he was the one that placed them in concentration camps they still came back to him for help. Also how Stalin wanted to
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Josef Stalin was apart of the allied nations during World War II‚ however‚ afterwards he started to threaten the world with nuclear warfare. Even before World War II‚ he did evil things to his people such as assassinations‚ laboring his people to death‚ and making himself dictator of Russia and renaming it the Soviet Union. Josef Stalin did many other horrid things‚ such as killing his wife and not releasing his son from prison‚ and he killed over 60‚000 million Russian people.Josef Stalin is the
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major economic factors regarded by Stalin during his rule‚ as it helped and achieved his belief of “Socialism in One Country”. Understanding the concept of collectivisation by Stalin in 1929 is imperative to understand that these economic factors were regarded as acceptable under Stalin’s tyranny since he provided a negative control to the Russian public. The economic factors of industrialisation and collectivisation
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style change of Stalin in late 1940 lead to a drastic increase of military effectiveness. This eventually led to victory over Germany because officers such as Zhukov were put in charge while Hitler drove his military into the ground. Prior to late 1940‚ Stalin was in complete control of military decisions; however‚ Stalin had no previous military experience. Stalin felt that the opposition party still had the potential to oust Stalin. There was still the possibility‚ so Stalin decided to lay
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To what extent were Hitler and Stalin similar? Hitler and Stalin were both cruel dictators around the time of WW2‚ but to what extent were these two men similar? Firstly they were both dictators throughout WW2; however they were both of different beliefs. Hitler was a fascist and Stalin was a communist‚ however they were both such extreme versions of these beliefs that they were‚ in many ways alike. Starting with childhood‚ Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in a small Austrian town called
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Throughout the reign of Stalin he was able to establish himself as a successful dictator through totalitarian rule. He became the undisputed leader of the USSR and the factors that enabled him to do so were Industrialisation‚ his social policies and his ability to defeat Hitler in World War Two. However‚ through Stalin’s political career he also encountered many failures. These were Collectivism‚ the purges and the terror he caused by the people living in Russia during his reign. Stalin’s
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