World leaders are leaders with high governmental power in the world. Every leader, not just world leaders, is either great or corrupt; they are rarely both. Most of Russia’s history is filled with corrupt leaders. Joseph was one of those leaders. Stalin killed millions of people during his rule. But Stalin also led the Soviet Union almost to the top in world power. Stalin had many influences that led him to his Soviet Leadership in which gave him many admirers but even more non-supporters. At the age of 10, Joseph “Stalin” Djugashvili attended Gori’s religious elementary school. His mother, Yekaterina, wanted him to be a priest and would usually beat her son if he son whenever he misbehaved. These beatings were never as bad as those …show more content…
The Russian’s loss in the Russo-Japanese war was the another way that they got the public to turn against the provisional government and strengthen the communist revolt. The revolt got stronger and stronger until the Bolsheviks finally revolted and took down the Russian Provisional Government. Because of this, civil war erupted all over the country. At the end of this war, in 1920, the Bolsheviks set up the USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, under control of Vladimir Lenin. When Lenin died, Stalin aggressively worked his way up until he was the leader of the USSR. In his control, Stalin set up a “5 year plan” to advance the Russian economy from just farming to also having industry. In this plan, he would also advance the military and “cleanse the country of villains” or those he saw as villains. To “cleanse the country”, Stalin would have unfair trials that would have many on trial at once. These were called his “Show Trials”. The majority, if not all, of these people were found guilty and sent for execution. They were executed all at once, and the executions were called the Purges. To advance the Russian economy, Stalin would work the farmers to death… literally. When the farmers revolted, Stalin stopped sending them food and even more died from starvation. On the last of the purges, 16 men were put on trial and accused of acts of terrorism towards Stalin and the Soviet government. Two of them were Stalin’s allies after Lenin’s death, Zinovyev and
Source 1 contrasts liberalism through supporting fascism. The source is contrasting one of the liberals main ideas, Freedom of choice. Liberalism focuses on the freedom of the individual and that choices that regard the individual should be made by the individual or majority. The quotes is suggesting that through a general election, the chances of a good leader being chosen are rare. He suggests a specific individual will be born a leader. In the first sentence of the quote, Hitler talks about the way a general election works. He calls it absurd and in turn is saying how a general election is not a good way to elect a leader. This shows the resistance to liberalism as liberalism believes in a general election as it backs up
On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic later becoming a vagrant. Stalin’s mother, Ketevan Geladze worked as a washerwoman.
Over the past two centuries, a common pattern has arisen among European leaders. Most of them have proven to have followed the reasoning of Niccoló Machiavelli, a renowned literarian. Machiavelli had a deep understanding of what it took to be a leader and maintain control. He put this understanding into The Prince, a book giving advice to leaders on how to gain and maintain power over a state. Joseph Stalin lead the Soviet Union as a Machiavellian leader. He followed many of the steps described by Machiavelli and prospered. Stalin is known as one the most cruel dictators in history and was widely feared by his people. He built his way
Stalin grad 1942 a bloody battle was going on between the Soviet Union and the Nazi’s the tale you are about to hear is what actually happened that event in 1942.
Joseph Stalin set the workers high targets. He demanded a 110% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power (Simkin, 2015). This order of rapid industrialization was very effective to quickly modernize Russia to become one of the largest world super powers in technology during and after World War II. Collectivization was also a call by Stalin and was not very successful. He was so focused on growing the economy that he forced peasants to work for an industry of crops and giving it to people above the peasants, creating serfdom. Instead of agriculture production increasing, this process actually dropped it due to death and famine that occurred. Stalin being who he is, does not care about the costs of lives when he is giving out orders. Stalin once said, “No comrades... the pace must not be slackened! On the contrary, we must quicken it as much as is within our powers and possibilities. To slacken the pace would mean to lag behind; and those who lag behind are beaten.... We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in years. Either we do it or
When Joseph Stalin was in control on Russia it meant that the people lost freedom. Everything that was done in the USSR had to be approved by the government. The people of Russia had no access to the media. Stalin believed that capitalist societies were driven by self-interest and oppressed people. In Churchill's "Iron Curtin Speech" he is talking about the necessary actions to maintain peace in Europe. Stalin's response to him seems like he's provoking other European nations to initiate warfare against Russia. Stalin compares Chruchill's words to those of Hitler regarding "racial theory" and says "Churchill only calls to the English-speaking nations of the world" (Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill, 1946). When Stalin made this accusation,
The information detailed in the United Press letter immensely expands my knowledge to help me better understand the Stalin era. For example, this letter is written by the soviet secret police, giving insight into practices used under Stalin through the secret police. The letter is addressed to Stalin, informing him on a citizen who had sent telegrams about Russian events abroad. Stalin’s secret police believed that this citizen was sending telegrams with the intent to spread false information about Russia abroad. First, this piece of information of the letter shows how the lives of individuals were constantly being controlled under Stalin’s reign. All of the telegrams being sent by this citizen were being monitored by Stalin’s secret police,
Josep Stalin was a social dictator during world war 2, who rose to power in 1929 after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. After his rise to power salt in would collectivized farming and would start killing off many of his own citizens. Stalin would launch multiple five year plans in hopes of bringing his lower class society into an industrial superpower. His five year plans consisted of one main idea, complete control of the government and economy. This would include control of the agricultural, which would lead to widespread famine killing millions
Josef Stalin was born on December 18, 1879. He was born in a Russian peasant village in Gori, Georgia. He was born to a cobbler and a washerwoman as parents. At the age of 7 he contracted small pox which left his face scarred. He was injured in a carriage accident which left his arm deformed. Some say this is how he got blood poisoning. Life was not fair to him which may have contributed to his drive for greatness and respect later in adulthood. He was a very negative towards the people who spoke against him and was not fond of well educated people as he did not trust them. His mother, Ketevan Geladze, sent him to a seminary to study becoming a priest. While a student at the seminary he embraced Marxism and became a loyal follower of Vladimir
Joseph Stalin was the man who turned the Soviet Union into a global force at an unimaginable cost. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin) was born on December 18, 1878 in a poor Russian village in Gori, Georgia. His father was Besarion Jughashvili, and his mother was Ketevan Geladze. At seven years old, he came down with smallpox, which left his left arm deformed and his face scarred. As a result, his classmates would tease him. This, in turn, made Stalin feel substandard, which made him feel he needed more respect. He also obtained a sharp streak of cold-heartedness for those who harmed him.
In the fifth grade I had to do a partner project, immediately I looked at my best friend, excited to work with her. But then the teacher said those words that every student hates. “I’ll pick your partners.” Slowly the teacher listed off who was working with who, than she came to my name. The name she called for me to work with was a name than I hated, a girl I never got along with. She was the smartest girl in the class though, I knew that if I wanted a good grade I would work with her, even though I wanted to work with my best friend. When in a time that we need to work together with someone, we don’t always get to work with who we want to work with. But the people we work with are the ones who give us the best outcome. Similarly, Joseph
Born in Birmingham, England Neville Chamberlain born on March 18, 1869 into a family of 5, a very well known politicaly, family.Parents to Neville Chamberlain were Joseph and Florence Chamberlain. Chamberlain had three sisters and two half siblings. Chamberlain went to school at a school called Rugby School & Mason college. His father Joseph Chamberlain, was a prime minister whose place Neville took later on in life. Although Chamberlain never showed interest in politics he went far into them. After going thru his years of school and college Chamberlain went at age of 21 to the Bahamas to start and manage an estate up there for many years. While being one of the major leaders of his country he was a leader in the years that lead up to World War II. As his life was getting better in the year of 1911 he won an election which got him a spot into the Birmingham City Council along with getting married to his wife, Anne Vere Cole in the same year. Along with a marriage Neville brought two children into his life names Dorothy and Francis.
Rising up from an average existence in middle class Russia Vladimir lenin became the most powerful man in all of his nation, and ultimately died starting a downfall of his beloved country.
A single-party state is a form of government where there is one political party that is the absolute government, as well as the absence of other opposing parties. In the 1920s a single party state occurred when Stalin established a communist dictatorship in the USSR. During his leadership Stalin hoped to modernize the Soviet economy, and maintain his position as the sole leader of the single-party state. In order to accomplish his goals, Stalin established policies within the USSR. However some of these policies did not end triumphantly. A successes of Stalin were the Great Purges, however his rule also faced failures such as the Five Year Plan. Additionally, the Collectivisation program, introduced by Stalin, was considered both a success
In 1953, the paranoia related to Josef Stalin's dark list consumes the nerves of common civilians, red army soldiers, and high-ranked politicians in Moscow. There are numerous arrests, tortures, and deaths, which become more and more exaggerated as they kept being ordered