Stalin photographed ca. 1942
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in the 1920s
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Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in the 1920s's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов) was the Bolshevik leader of the 1917 October Revolution and the first head of state of the USSR. In the course of his political career, he also was known as Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Nikolai Lenin, death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (help·info), tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The.
Stalin launched a command economy A planned economy or directed economy is an economic system in which the state or workers' councils manage the economy. It is an economic system in which the central government makes all decisions on the production and consumption of goods and services. Its most extensive form is referred to as a command economy, centrally planned economy, or, replacing the New Economic Policy The New Economic Policy (Russian: Новая экономическая политика - Novaya Ekonomicheskaya Politika or НЭП) was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing. Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small businesses or shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. Fulfilling the plan and launching a period of rapid industrialization Industrialisation is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernisation process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale and economic collectivization Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms . The Soviet leadership was confident that the replacement of individual peasant farms by kolkhozy would immediately increase the food supply for urban populations,. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the USSR tended to occur on a fairly regular basis, with famine occurring every 10-13 years and droughts every 5-7 years. Golubev and Dronin distinguish three types of drought according to productive areas vulnerable to droughts: Central , and Central Chernozem Region), Southern (Volga and Volga-Vyatka area ,, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933 The Soviet famine of 1932–1933 affected major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union which included Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, South Urals, West Siberia. The manifestation of this famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is referred to as Holodomor. Unlike a famine in the Russian SFSR in 1921,, known in Ukraine Ukraine /juːˈkreɪn/ (Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, [ukrɑˈjinɑ]) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the as the Holodomor The Holodomor refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death due to Soviet policies. There were no natural causes for starvation and in fact, Ukraine - unlike other Soviet Republics - enjoyed a bumper wheat crop in 1932. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest calamities to.[1]
During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps The Gulag or GULAG was the government agency that administered the penal labour camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD. Eventually, by metonymy, the usage of "Gulag" began generally denoting the entire penal labor system in the USSR, then any or exiled. In the years following, millions of ethnic minorities A minority is a sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society. A sociological minority is not necessarily a numerical minority — it may include any group that is subnormal with respect to a dominant group in terms of social status, education, employment, wealth and were also deported Population transfer in the Soviet Union may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of "anti-Soviet" categories of population, often classified as "enemies of workers", deportations of nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite directions to fill the ethnically cleansed.[2][3]
In 1939, the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, colloquially named after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between the Third German Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and signed in Moscow in the early hours of 24, followed by a Soviet invasion of Poland The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army, Finland The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939, three months after the German invasion of Poland and the start of World War II, and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal, and the Soviet Union was, the Baltics The occupation of the Baltic states is the period in the history of the Baltic States which started with the military occupation [nb 1] and annexation by the Soviet Union in 1939 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and re-establishment of the independent and democratic Baltic states. During this period Baltic states were, Bessarabia Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west. This was the name by which Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia, ceded by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal) to Russia in the aftermath of the and northern Bukovina Bukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains. It is currently split between Romania and Ukraine. After Germany violated the pact Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800 mile) front. Planning for Operation Barbarossa started on 18 December 1940; the secret preparations and the military operation in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Allies to play a large role in the Axis defeat The Eastern Front of World War II (German: die Ostfront 1941–1945 , der Rußlandfeldzug 1941–1945 or der Ostfeldzug 1941-1945 (Eastern Campaign)) was a theatre of war between the European Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Finland (not an Axis member) and the Soviet Union which encompassed central, at the cost of the largest death toll World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million persons were killed. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses for any country in the war. Thereafter, contradicting statements at allied conferences The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin,, Stalin installed communist governments in most of Eastern Europe, forming the Eastern bloc The terms Eastern Bloc, Communist Bloc or Soviet Bloc were used to refer to the former Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, including the countries of the Warsaw Pact, along with Yugoslavia and Albania, which were not aligned with the Soviet Union after 1948 and 1960 respectively, behind what was referred to as an "Iron Curtain The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances:" of Soviet rule. This launched the long period of antagonism known as the Cold War The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939–1945), primarily between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, including the United States. Although the primary participants' military forces never officially clashed.
Stalin made efforts to augment his public image, and a cult of personality A cult of personality arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships and Stalinist governments developed around him. However, after his death, his successor, Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was a leader of the Soviet Union, serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization, denounced his legacy, initiating the period known as de-Stalinization De-Stalinization refers to the process of eliminating the cult of personality and Stalinist political system created by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.[4]
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Q. Joseph Stalin gained complete control of the Communist Party with the help of officials he had appointed in 1927. He was the party s general secretary, which was an important role in the party. His ruling of the Soviet Union indicated the start of an economic, social, and political revolution, which had better results than in 1917. Joseph Stalin modernized the Soviet Union through the Five Year Plan, developed collectivization operated by the government, and achieved his goals by controlling the party bureaucracy and purged any opposition. In 1928, Stalin switched from the Lenin s economic plan to his Five-Year Plan. The plan s goal was to convert the Soviet Union from an agricultural state to an industrial country. The industrial… [cont.]
Asked by Charlie J - Sun Nov 16 21:37:43 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Hi Charlie, You have a good start on your essay, because you have a collection of facts in chronological order. Now comes the hard part. You need to put those in essay form, which means you need to write an expository essay. An expository essay presents information...let's see...how can I best explain it? As if you were giving a speech to a group of knowledgeable historians. They would already know the basic facts, so you have to put it into a form that is interesting to listen to. Here is a link to an essay on Stalin. If you are not accustomed to writing this sort of essay, print it out (or any other you find) and use it as a guide for your own writing. If you paraphrase something you find, BE SURE to give proper credit.
Answered by laholly1 - Sun Nov 16 23:48:23 2008
