[117], In January 1912, while Stalin was in exile, the first Bolshevik Central Committee was elected at the Prague Conference. [556] Still, Stalin foresaw the undesirability of a nuclear conflict, saying in 1949 that "atomic weapons can hardly be used without spelling the end of the world. [379] At the same time, penal sanctions became more severe; at Stalin's instigation, in August 1932 a decree was introduced wherein the theft of even a handful of grain could be a capital offence. They were similar in some respects and yet very different. [170] Lenin returned to Petrograd and secured a majority in favour of a coup at a meeting of the Central Committee on 10 October. [333] Stalin responded to the uprisings with an article insisting that collectivisation was voluntary and blaming any violence and other excesses on local officials. Stalin is also considered one of the most dangerous totalitarian leaders in history, his violent excesses often compared to those of Adolf Hitler. [618] With this accomplished, Marxist governments now controlled a third of the world's land mass. [500] He also permitted a wider range of cultural expression, notably permitting formerly suppressed writers and artists like Anna Akhmatova and Dmitri Shostakovich to disperse their work more widely. [798] He protected several Soviet writers from arrest and prosecution, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime. [897] After the dissolution of the Union in 1991, the rest of the archives were opened to historians, resulting in much new information about Stalin coming to light,[898] and producing a flood of new research. It is a chance to consider only what is necessary to make a decision. [444] Yezhov was arrested in April 1939 and executed in 1940. [389] Stalin blamed the famine on hostile elements and sabotage within the peasantry;[390] his government provided small amounts of food to famine-struck rural areas, although this was wholly insufficient to deal with the levels of starvation. [657] It has been conjectured that Stalin was murdered;[658] Beria has been suspected of murdering him, but no firm evidence has ever appeared. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Stalin has retained popularity in Russia and Georgia as a victorious wartime leader who cemented the Soviet Union's status as a leading world power. [644], From 1946 until his death, Stalin only gave three public speeches, two of which lasted only a few minutes. [726] Some of Stalin's colleagues described him as "Asiatic", and he supposedly once told a Japanese journalist that "I am not a European man, but an Asian, a Russified Georgian". [814] When at social events, he encouraged singing,[815] as well as alcohol consumption; he hoped that others would drunkenly reveal their secrets to him. [341] Large debts were accrued purchasing foreign-made machinery. In 1952, Stalin's last book, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, was published. [548] On 8 August, in between the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet army invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria and defeated the Kwantung Army. This has been a period replete with events of a decisive nature. [890] Kotkin observed that Stalin's ability to remain in power relied on him having a majority in the Politburo at all times. Severe disruptions to food production contributed to the famine of 193033 that killed millions. He edited the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets. Stalin and a fellow senior Bolshevik Leon Trotsky both endorsed Lenin's plan of action, but it was initially opposed by Kamenev and other party members. [323] Stalin's message was that socialism was being established in the USSR while capitalism was crumbling amid the Wall Street crash. [651] He had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. [179], On 26 October 1917, Lenin declared himself chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars ("Sovnarkom"). The Soviets invaded Finland in November 1939, yet despite numerical inferiority, the Finns kept the Red Army at bay. "Deeply saddened," he said. "[845] They had a son, Yakov, who often frustrated and annoyed Stalin. It nevertheless clashed with established Bolshevik views that socialism could not be established in one country but could only be achieved globally through the process of world revolution. [683] Volkogonov believed that Stalin's Marxism was shaped by his "dogmatic turn of mind", suggesting that this had been instilled in the Soviet leader during his education in religious institutions. [291] In 1925, the two moved into open opposition to Stalin and Bukharin. About half were then imprisoned in labour camps. [909], In 2011, historian Timothy D. Snyder summarised modern data made after the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s and states that Stalin's regime was responsible for 9million deaths, with 6million of these being deliberate killings. [682] The historian Alfred J. Rieber noted that he had been raised in "a society where rebellion was deeply rooted in folklore and popular rituals". [187] He co-signed Lenin's decrees shutting down hostile newspapers,[188] and along with Sverdlov, he chaired the sessions of the committee drafting a constitution for the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. [6] His birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili,[d] and he was nicknamed "Soso", a diminutive of "Ioseb". [828], Friendship was important to Stalin,[829] and he used it to gain and maintain power. [3] "Charismatic rule has long been neglected and ridiculed, but apparently it has deep roots and becomes a powerful stimulus once the proper psychological and social doubt that millions believe in it" (Neumann, 1942: p. 75). PM Modi's advice to BJP workers: 'Don't make anti-Muslim remarks' Views: 264. [869], Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union. [15] In 1886, they moved into the house of a family friend, Father Christopher Charkviani. [534] As the Red Army reconquered the Caucasus and Crimea, various ethnic groups living in the regionthe Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, and Crimean Tatarswere accused of having collaborated with the Germans. Using the idea of collective responsibility as a basis, Stalin's government abolished their autonomous republics and between late 1943 and 1944 deported the majority of their populations to Central Asia and Siberia. [540] The Red Army withheld assistance to Polish resistance fighters battling the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising, with Stalin believing that any victorious Polish militants could interfere with his aspirations to dominate Poland through a future Marxist government. [340] The USSR underwent a massive economic transformation. [215] In September he was returned to the Southern Front. [640] He instructed the arrested doctors to be tortured to ensure confession. [203], After the Bolsheviks seized power, both right and left-wing armies rallied against them, generating the Russian Civil War. [240] As People's Commissar for Nationalities, Stalin believed that each national and ethnic group should have the right to self-expression,[241] facilitated through "autonomous republics" within the Russian state in which they could oversee various regional affairs. [403] Stalin nevertheless recognised the threat posed by fascism and sought to establish better links with the liberal democracies of Western Europe;[404] in May 1935, the Soviets signed a treaty of mutual assistance with France and Czechoslovakia. [362] The government's anti-religious campaign was re-intensified,[363] with increased funding given to the League of Militant Atheists. addressing the closing ceremony of the chennai international book fair that began on monday, stalin said the state government has allotted rs 3 crore as translation grants and rs 6 crore for. [250] At the 11th Party Congress in 1922, Lenin nominated Stalin as the party's new General Secretary. Though each loathed and feared the other, there was much Hitler and Stalin had in common. [608] Stalin had a particularly strained relationship with Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito due to the latter's continued calls for Balkan federation and for Soviet aid for the communist forces in the ongoing Greek Civil War. [435] These purges replaced most of the party's old guard with younger officials who did not remember a time before Stalin's leadership and who were regarded as more personally loyal to him. [625] The U.S. went to the UN Security Councilwhich the Soviets were boycotting over its refusal to recognise Mao's governmentand secured military support for the South Koreans. "[824] Conquest stated that although Stalin had Jewish associates, he promoted anti-Semitism. [163] This reflected his senior standing in the party at the time.[164]. 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[428] In July 1937, the Politburo ordered a purge of "anti-Soviet elements" in society, targeting anti-Stalin Bolsheviks, former Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, priests, ex-White Army soldiers, and common criminals. [647] In October 1952, Stalin gave an hour and a half speech at the Central Committee plenum. Myth [518], In Allied countries, Stalin was increasingly depicted in a positive light over the course of the war. IMO, Stalin was a very fair leader. "[884] In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". [295] The factionalist arguments continued, with Stalin threatening to resign in October and then December 1926 and again in December 1927. [610] The 1947 Hungarian elections were also rigged, with the Hungarian Working People's Party taking control. Stalin contained a lot of bad leadership characteristics but I have cut it down to some of the worst in my opinion. [292] At the 14th Party Congress in December, they launched an attack against Stalin's faction, but it was unsuccessful. [376], Within the Soviet Union, there was widespread civic disgruntlement against Stalin's government. [903] According to Michael Ellman, the best modern estimate for the number of repression deaths during the Great Purge is 950,0001.2million, which includes executions, deaths in detention, or soon after their release. [795] An autodidact,[806] he claimed to read as many as 500 pages a day,[807] with Montefiore regarding him as an intellectual. [151][152], In Kureika, Stalin lived among the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak peoples,[153] and spent much of his time fishing. Stalin, however, did this strategically, executing the murder of Vladimir Lenin in a guiltless manner. Stalin, in his tweet described Yadav as a tall socialist leader. [939], Yevstafy Zhakov, a pastor of St. Olga Strelna near St. Petersburg, caused an uproar after he hung a portrait of Stalin among sacred images, stating: "I remember him [Stalin] on appropriate occasions, the day of his birthday, his death and that of Victory. Published April 3, 2022 Updated April 5, 2022 Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, after apparently suffering a stroke but some suspect that he was actually poisoned. [765] According to historian Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin wasn't a psychopath. By January 1953, three per cent of the Soviet population was imprisoned or in internal exile, with 2.8million in "special settlements" in isolated areas and another 2.5million in camps, penal colonies, and prisons. [347], In 1928, Stalin declared that class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify as socialism developed. Hence he bore direct responsibility for the course of the war and its outcome. Moreover he knew perfectly how to manipulate people on his behalf and also how to gain supporters and how . [564] He was also concerned about his returning armies, who had been exposed to a wide range of consumer goods in Germany, much of which they had looted and brought back with them. [244] The Georgian Communist Party opposed the idea, resulting in the Georgian affair. [230] He also believed that the Red Army was ill-prepared to conduct an offensive war and that it would give White Armies a chance to resurface in Crimea, potentially reigniting the civil war. [123], In May 1912, he was arrested again and imprisoned in the Shpalerhy Prison, before being sentenced to three years exile in Siberia. [149] In or about December 1914, their child was born but the infant soon died. [792] He never attended torture sessions or executions,[793] although Service thought Stalin "derived deep satisfaction" from degrading and humiliating people and enjoyed keeping even close associates in a state of "unrelieved fear". According to Montefiore, theirs was "a true love match";[843] Volkogonov suggested that she was "probably the one human being he had really loved". Fair leadership doesn't use power to make arbitrary and . [180] Stalin backed Lenin's decision not to form a coalition with the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party, although they did form a coalition government with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. [575], Stalin's health was deteriorating, and heart problems forced a two-month vacation in the latter part of 1945. [544] As the Red Army had conquered German territory, they discovered the extermination camps that the Nazi administration had run. [504] Comintern was dissolved in 1943,[505] and Stalin encouraged foreign MarxistLeninist parties to emphasise nationalism over internationalism to broaden their domestic appeal. [662] The crowds of people coming to view the body were so large and disorganized that about 100 people were killed in the crush. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's ideology. [75] Stalin was in Baku in February when ethnic violence broke out between Armenians and Azeris; at least 2,000 were killed. [780] Stalin denied to foreign visitors that he was a dictator, stating that those who labelled him such did not understand the Soviet governance structure. [835], Stalin was no womanizer. [422] The second Moscow Show Trial took place in January 1937,[423] and the third in March 1938, in which Bukharin and Rykov were accused of involvement in the alleged Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist plot and sentenced to death. [555] Various East European communists also visited Stalin in Moscow. I saw Hitler many, many times, and Goering and Goebbels. [478] He formed a State Defense Committee, which he headed as Supreme Commander,[479] as well as a military Supreme Command (Stavka),[480] with Georgy Zhukov as its Chief of Staff. [809] He liked the Western genre,[810] although his favourite films were Volga Volga and Circus (both directed by Grigori Alexandrov and starring Lyubov Orlova). [597] He sent Molotov as his representative to San Francisco to take part in negotiations to form the United Nations, insisting that the Soviets have a place on the Security Council. [477] Despite intelligence agencies repeatedly warning him of Germany's intentions, Stalin was taken by surprise. [442] The Great Terror ended when Yezhov was removed as the head of the NKVD, to be replaced by Lavrentiy Beria,[443] a man totally devoted to Stalin. [553] Stalin pushed for reparations from Germany without regard to the base minimum supply for German citizens' survival, which worried Truman and Churchill who thought that Germany would become a financial burden for Western powers. [705] He read about, and admired, two Tsars in particular: Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great. Vladimir Lenin, leader of the former Bolshevik Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died on the 21st of January in 1924. The existing government of landlords and capitalists must be replaced by a new government, a government of workers and peasants.The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives. [229] On 16 July, the Central Committee decided to take the war into Polish territory. [722] It has been argued that his ancestry was Ossetian, because his genetic haplotype (G2a-Z6653) is considered typical of the Ossetians, but he never acknowledged an Ossetian identity. Machiavelli in our time. [175] Although he had been tasked with briefing the Bolshevik delegates of the Second Congress of Soviets about the developing situation, Stalin's role in the coup had not been publicly visible. Iosif Stalin, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow. [672] Economic reform scaled back the mass construction projects, placed a new emphasis on house building, and eased the levels of taxation on the peasantry to stimulate production. [243] Stalin opposed the idea of separate Georgian, Armenian, and Azeri autonomous republics, arguing that these would likely oppress ethnic minorities within their respective territories; instead he called for a Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. [276] Stalin had much contact with young party functionaries,[277] and the desire for promotion led many provincial figures to seek to impress Stalin and gain his favour. "[729], Stalin had a soft voice,[730] and when speaking Russian did so slowly, carefully choosing his phrasing. [427], Repressions further intensified in December 1936 and remained at a high level until November 1938, a period known as the Great Purge. [485] By July, Germany's Luftwaffe was bombing Moscow,[484] and by October the Wehrmacht was amassing for a full assault on the capital. There was a power struggle among the Soviet Communist Party elite to succeed Stalin after his death in 1953. [528] Roosevelt and Churchill also agreed to Stalin's demand that the German city of Knigsberg be declared Soviet territory. Initially Stalin refused to repeal the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, which significantly benefited the Soviet Union over China, although in January 1950 he relented and agreed to sign a new treaty between the two countries. Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922 and took over as the effective leader of the nation following Lenin's death in 1924. There were two Five Year Plans - first from 1928 to 1933 and the second from 1932 to 1937. [436] Party functionaries readily carried out their commands and sought to ingratiate themselves with Stalin to avoid becoming the victim of the purge. [367] Through the Communist International, Stalin's government exerted a strong influence over Marxist parties elsewhere in the world;[368] initially, Stalin left the running of the organisation largely to Bukharin. [550] Soviet forces continued to expand until they occupied all their territorial concessions, but the U.S. rebuffed Stalin's desire for the Red Army to take a role in the Allied occupation of Japan. [727] Service also noted that Stalin "would never be Russian", could not credibly pass as one, and never tried to pretend that he was. Shvernik did not offer details about the most serious episode of unrest-a wave . [900], With a high number of excess deaths occurring under his rule, Stalin has been labelled "one of the most notorious figures in history. [402] Stalin admired Hitler, particularly his manoeuvres to remove rivals within the Nazi Party in the Night of the Long Knives. [825] Service cautioned that there was "no irrefutable evidence" of anti-Semitism in Stalin's published work, although his private statements and public actions were "undeniably reminiscent of crude antagonism towards Jews";[826] he added that throughout Stalin's lifetime, the Georgian "would be the friend, associate or leader of countless individual Jews". [419] In 1935, he ordered the NKVD to expel suspected counter-revolutionaries from urban areas;[381] in early 1935, over 11,000 were expelled from Leningrad. For this reason, he retained the Leninist view that world revolution was still a necessity to ensure the ultimate victory of socialism. [573] Recognising the need for drastic steps to be taken to combat inflation and promote economic regeneration, in December 1947 Stalin's government devalued the rouble and abolished the ration-book system. [817] His Volynskoe suburb had a 20-hectare (50-acre) park, with Stalin devoting much attention to its agricultural activities. [341] Millions of peasants moved to the cities, although urban house building could not keep up with the demand. It contains a great deal of text, mostly dense exchanges between the player character and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. [465] International opinion backed Finland, with the Soviets being expelled from the League of Nations. [312] Many Communists, including in Komsomol, OGPU, and the Red Army, were eager to be rid of the NEP and its market-oriented approach;[313] they had concerns about those who profited from the policy: affluent peasants known as "kulaks" and small business owners or "Nepmen". [617] Across Eastern Europe, the Soviet model was enforced, with a termination of political pluralism, agricultural collectivisation, and investment in heavy industry. [637], In his later years, Stalin was in poor health. [719] Montefiore thought Stalin's brutality marked him out as a "natural extremist";[794] Service suggested he had tendencies toward a paranoid and sociopathic personality disorder. [378] It therefore emphasised the expansion of housing space and the production of consumer goods. [567], The NKVD were ordered to catalogue the scale of destruction during the war. [34], Stalin joined a forbidden book club at the school;[35] he was particularly influenced by Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 1863 pro-revolutionary novel What Is To Be Done? [373] In November 1932, after a group dinner in the Kremlin in which Stalin flirted with other women, Nadezhda shot herself. C. Lenin believed that Stalin would be a fair and honest leader, so he ensured Stalin's position before he died. We have fallen behind the advanced countries by fifty to a hundred years. The effective leader of the party was Kamenevwho took the Chair of the Politburo. Georgy Malenkov was nominally the next leader after . [237] Stalin felt disgraced and increased his antipathy toward Trotsky. By 1937, he had absolute control over the party and government. Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. [503], In April 1942, Stalin overrode Stavka by ordering the Soviets' first serious counter-attack, an attempt to seize German-held Kharkov in eastern Ukraine. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 18 December [ O.S. [795] Other historians linked his brutality not to any personality trait, but to his unwavering commitment to the survival of the Soviet Union and the international MarxistLeninist cause. Stalin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, and Lenin lived at the Kremlin. [418] Stalin issued a decree establishing NKVD troikas which could mete out rulings without involving the courts. [579] In 1949, he brought Nikita Khrushchev from Ukraine to Moscow, appointing him a Central Committee secretary and the head of the city's party branch. 1893 class table of Gori Religious School including a photo of Stalin. [118] Shortly after the conference, Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev decided to co-opt Stalin to the committee. [147] In March 1914, concerned over a potential escape attempt, the authorities moved Stalin to the hamlet of Kureika on the edge of the Arctic Circle. The Truth Stalin suffered a major stroke on March 1, 1953, but treatment was delayed from reaching him as a direct result of his actions over the previous decades. [214] He returned to Moscow between January and March 1919,[215] before being assigned to the Western Front at Petrograd. [796], Keenly interested in the arts,[797] Stalin admired artistic talent. [304] His growing influence was reflected in naming of various locations after him; in June 1924 the Ukrainian mining town of Yuzovka became Stalino,[305] and in April 1925, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad on the order of Mikhail Kalinin and Avel Enukidze. [615] In Poland, the Soviets merged various socialist parties into the Polish United Workers' Party, and vote rigging was used to ensure that it secured office. [285] Although Zinoviev was concerned about Stalin's growing authority, he rallied behind him at the 13th Congress as a counterweight to Trotsky, who now led a party faction known as the Left Opposition. , with Stalin devoting much attention to its agricultural activities it therefore emphasised the expansion of housing space and production. Committee decided to co-opt Stalin to the famine of 193033 that killed millions Besarionis dze Jughashvili [. 828 ], Stalin declared that class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify socialism! 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