[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. [303] According to Montefiore, at this point "Stalin was the leader of the oligarchs but he was far from a dictator". [88] At the conference, the RSDLP then led by its Menshevik majority agreed that it would not raise funds using armed robbery. [567], The NKVD were ordered to catalogue the scale of destruction during the war. [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. [591] In August 1949, the bomb was successfully tested in the deserts outside Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. [557] Aware that these countries had been pushed toward socialism through invasion rather than by proletarian revolution, Stalin referred to them not as "dictatorships of the proletariat" but as "people's democracies", suggesting that in these countries there was a pro-socialist alliance combining the proletariat, peasantry, and lower middle-class. The Soviets invaded Finland in November 1939, yet despite numerical inferiority, the Finns kept the Red Army at bay. [798] Stalin's favourite subject was history, closely followed by Marxist theory and then fiction. Born: December 8, 1878 in Gori, Georgia. Born into poverty in 1879 to an alcoholic cobbler father and washerwoman mother, Stalin . [438], Stalin initiated all key decisions during the Terror, personally directing many of its operations and taking an interest in their implementation. [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). He attracted a group of supporters through his classes in socialist theory[46] and co-organised a secret workers' mass meeting for May Day 1900,[47] at which he successfully encouraged many of the men to take strike action. [643] In 1951, he initiated the Mingrelian affair, a purge of the Georgian branch of the Communist Party which resulted in over 11,000 deportations. [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? [869], Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union. [767] He was a hard worker,[768] and displayed a keen desire to learn;[769] when in power, he scrutinised many details of Soviet life, from film scripts to architectural plans and military hardware. Submitted by sgel on June 17, 2011. [409] Germany and Italy backed the Nationalist faction, which was ultimately victorious in March 1939. [456] Germany began negotiations with the Soviets, proposing that Eastern Europe be divided between the two powers. [758] After 1932, he favoured holidays in Abkhazia, being a friend of its leader, Nestor Lakoba. [356], Stalin desired a "cultural revolution",[357] entailing both creation of a culture for the "masses" and wider dissemination of previously elite culture. By mid-1928 he was unable to rally sufficient support in the party to oppose the reforms. [521] There remained mutual suspicions between Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who were together known as the "Big Three". [462] A GermanSoviet Frontier Treaty was signed shortly after, in Stalin's presence. [327] By 1932, about 62% of households involved in agriculture were part of collectives, and by 1936 this had risen to 90%. [106] In early 1908, he travelled to the Swiss city of Geneva to meet with Lenin and the prominent Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov, although the latter exasperated him. [399] During the later 1930s, Stalin placed "a few limits on the worship of his own greatness". [695] In his book, Foundations of Leninism, he stated that "Leninism is the Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution". Iosif Stalin, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow. [506] That year, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an overall victory on the Eastern Front, to the goal of securing the oil fields in the southern Soviet Union crucial to a long-term German war effort. [756] Along with other senior figures, he had a dacha at Zubalova, 35km outside Moscow,[757] although ceased using it after Nadezhda's 1932 suicide. [917] In 1969 and again in 1979, plans were proposed for a full rehabilitation of Stalin's legacy but on both occasions were defeated by critics within the Soviet and international MarxistLeninist movement. [539] Privately, Stalin sought to ensure that Poland would come fully under Soviet influence. [570] In the war's aftermath, some of Stalin's associates suggested modifications to government policy. [271] During the 13th Party Congress in May 1924, "Lenin's Testament" was read only to the leaders of the provincial delegations. [171], On 24 October, police raided the Bolshevik newspaper offices, smashing machinery and presses; Stalin salvaged some of this equipment to continue his activities. [710] He first developed the idea in December 1924 and elaborated upon in his writings of 192526. [712] This concept synthesised Marxist and Leninist ideas with nationalist ideals,[694] and served to discredit Trotskywho promoted the idea of "permanent revolution"by presenting the latter as a defeatist with little faith in Russian workers' abilities to construct socialism. Some weeks after the controversy, the Patriarchate of Moscow forced Zhakov to remove the icon of Stalin from his parish. [278] Stalin also developed close relations with the trio at the heart of the secret police (first the Cheka and then its replacement, the State Political Directorate): Felix Dzerzhinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. [368], Stalin faced problems in his family life. As a result of his Five-Year Plans, the country underwent agricultural collectivisation and rapid industrialisation, creating a centralised command economy. [868] According to historian Kevin McDermott, interpretations of Stalin range from "the sycophantic and adulatory to the vitriolic and condemnatory. [798] He protected several Soviet writers from arrest and prosecution, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime. Reason 3: He was Stalin Reason 4: He killed between six million and 20 million people. [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. [509] This resulted in the protracted Battle of Stalingrad. We have fallen behind the advanced countries by fifty to a hundred years. [734] His writing style was similar, being characterised by its simplicity, clarity, and conciseness. Together, the trio laid down the foundation for the Soviet Union. [689] He also believed that this proletarian state would need to introduce repressive measures against foreign and domestic "enemies" to ensure the full crushing of the propertied classes,[690] and thus the class war would intensify with the advance of socialism. He and Hitler were about the same height, approximately five feet, eight. [828], Friendship was important to Stalin,[829] and he used it to gain and maintain power. [70] Although he established a Bolshevik stronghold in the mining town of Chiatura,[71] Bolshevism remained a minority force in the Menshevik-dominated Georgian revolutionary scene. [359] Socialist realism was promoted throughout arts,[360] while Stalin personally wooed prominent writers, namely Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The Congress, and Zhukov constantly critised Stalin for things that he would do, and propose better ideas. [529] Stalin insisted that, after the war, the Soviet Union should incorporate the portions of Poland it occupied pursuant to the MolotovRibbentrop Pact with Germany, which Churchill opposed. [626] Stalin wanted to avoid direct Soviet conflict with the U.S., convincing the Chinese to aid the North. [383] Government policiesincluding the focus on rapid industrialisation, the socialisation of livestock, and the emphasis on sown areas over crop rotationexacerbated the problem;[388] the state had also failed to build reserve grain stocks for such an emergency. [78] Stalin's squads disarmed local police and troops,[79] raided government arsenals,[80] and raised funds through protection rackets on large local businesses and mines. [508] In June 1942, the German Army began a major offensive in Southern Russia, threatening Stalingrad; Stalin ordered the Red Army to hold the city at all costs. [832] Stalin was sociable and enjoyed a joke. [542], In April 1945, the Red Army seized Berlin, Hitler committed suicide, and Germany surrendered in May. [36] Another influential text was Alexander Kazbegi's The Patricide, with Stalin adopting the nickname "Koba" from that of the book's bandit protagonist. [416] State repression intensified after Kirov's death;[417] Stalin instigated this, reflecting his prioritisation of security above other considerations. The real motivation for the terror, according to Harris, was an excessive fear of counterrevolution. [136] The article was published under the pseudonym "K. Stalin",[139] a name he had used since 1912. Stalin is too crude, and this defect which is entirely acceptable in our milieu and in relationships among us as communists, becomes unacceptable in the position of General Secretary. [160] There, Stalin and a fellow Bolshevik Lev Kamenev assumed control of Pravda,[161] and Stalin was appointed the Bolshevik representative to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, an influential council of the city's workers. [349] The first major show trial in the USSR was the Shakhty Trial of 1928, in which several middle-class "industrial specialists" were convicted of sabotage. [795] He was instead an emotionally intelligent and feeling intellectual. [420], Stalin orchestrated the arrest of many former opponents in the Communist Party as well as sitting members of the Central Committee: denounced as Western-backed mercenaries, many were imprisoned or exiled internally. [931] In this literature, Stalin's repressions are regarded either as a necessary measure to defeat "enemies of the people" or the result of lower-level officials acting without Stalin's knowledge. [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. Acknowledge. [391] Stalin would not acknowledge that his policies had contributed to the famine,[380] the existence of which was kept secret from foreign observers. These reasons build to why Stalin emerged as leader of the USSR by 1929. [764] Stalin had a complex mind,[765] great self-control,[766] and an excellent memory. [414] In September 1934, he launched a commission to investigate false imprisonments; that same month he called for the execution of workers at the Stalin Metallurgical Factory accused of spying for Japan. [242] In taking this view, some Marxists accused him of bending too much to bourgeois nationalism, while others accused him of remaining too Russocentric by seeking to retain these nations within the Russian state. Stalin in fact respected and liked when this happened. [702] After Lenin's death, Stalin relied heavily on Lenin's writingsfar more so than those of Marx and Engelsto guide him in the affairs of state. [264], Their differences also became personal; Lenin was particularly angered when Stalin was rude to his wife Krupskaya during a telephone conversation. [222] In December 1918, he drew up decrees recognising Marxist-governed Soviet republics in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia;[223] during the civil war these Marxist governments were overthrown and the Baltic countries became fully independent of Russia, an act Stalin regarded as illegitimate. [739] He was born with a webbed left foot, and his left arm had been permanently injured in childhood which left it shorter than his right and lacking in flexibility,[740] which was probably the result of being hit, at the age of 12, by a horse-drawn carriage. [744] He was a lifelong smoker, who smoked both a pipe and cigarettes. [699] After the October Revolution, they continued to have differences. [846] Yakov had a daughter, Galina, before fighting for the Red Army in the Second World War. [562] He was quoted in Pravda on a daily basis and pictures of him remained pervasive on the walls of workplaces and homes. [117], In January 1912, while Stalin was in exile, the first Bolshevik Central Committee was elected at the Prague Conference. [144], In February 1913, Stalin was arrested while back in Saint Petersburg. [103] In Baku he had reassembled his gang, the Outfit,[104] which continued to attack Black Hundreds and raised finances by running protection rackets, counterfeiting currency, and carrying out robberies. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, massacres, and detention and interrogation by . [514], By November 1942, the Soviets had begun to repulse the important German strategic southern campaign and, although there were 2.5million Soviet casualties in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front. [189] He strongly supported Lenin's formation of the Cheka security service and the subsequent Red Terror that it initiated; noting that state violence had proved an effective tool for capitalist powers, he believed that it would prove the same for the Soviet government. [645] The amount of written material that he produced also declined. [168] In Lenin's absence, Stalin continued editing Pravda and served as acting leader of the Bolsheviks, overseeing the party's Sixth Congress, which was held covertly. [3] He was born on 18 December[O.S. [769] Montefiore suggested that this charm was "the foundation of Stalin's power in the Party". [328] Many of the collectivised peasants resented the loss of their private farmland,[329] and productivity slumped. [720] In private he often used coarse language and profanity, although avoided doing so in public. He undermined them by: Establishing a new ideological orthodoxy and branding opponents enemies of Leninism. [199] Stalin thought it necessary because unlike Lenin he was unconvinced that Europe was on the verge of proletarian revolution. [849] In later life, he disapproved of Svetlana's various suitors and husbands, putting a strain on his relationship with her. [560] In 1946, the state published Stalin's Collected Works. In 1961, just eight years later, the Soviet government ordered Stalin's remains removed from the tomb. The first step in Stalin's rise to power was to eliminate his opponent. [333] Stalin responded to the uprisings with an article insisting that collectivisation was voluntary and blaming any violence and other excesses on local officials. [610] The 1947 Hungarian elections were also rigged, with the Hungarian Working People's Party taking control. [875], Stalin's Soviet Union has been characterised as a totalitarian state,[876] with Stalin its authoritarian leader. U.S. led forces pushed the North Koreans back. [407], When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, the Soviets sent 648 aircraft and 407 tanks to the left-wing Republican faction; these were accompanied by 3,000 Soviet troops and 42,000 members of the International Brigades set up by the Communist International. I stand on the ground of the latter". To eradicate accused "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned, largely in the Gulag system of forced labour camps, and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939. [644], From 1946 until his death, Stalin only gave three public speeches, two of which lasted only a few minutes. [637], In his later years, Stalin was in poor health. [130] In late 1912, Stalin twice crossed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire to visit Lenin in Cracow,[131] eventually bowing to Lenin's opposition to reunification with the Mensheviks. [731] Described as a poor orator,[732] according to Volkogonov, Stalin's speaking style was "simple and clear, without flights of fancy, catchy phrases or platform histrionics". [30] According to Stalin's biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, they became "minor Georgian classics"[31] and were included in various anthologies of Georgian poetry over the coming years. He also placed a ban on factionalism and branded all opposition as traitorous. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests . [448] According to historian James Harris, contemporary archival research shows that the motivation behind the purges was not Stalin attempting to establish his own personal dictatorship; evidence suggests he was committed to building the socialist state envisioned by Lenin. They were similar in some respects and yet very different. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as global superpowers and entered a period of tension, the Cold War. [714] Ultimately he believed that all nations would merge into a single, global human community,[714] and regarded all nations as inherently equal. [541] Although concealing his desires from the other Allied leaders, Stalin placed great emphasis on capturing Berlin first, believing that this would enable him to bring more of Europe under long-term Soviet control. [621] Stalin was concerned that Mao might follow Tito's example by pursuing a course independent of Soviet influence, and made it known that if displeased he would withdraw assistance from China; the Chinese desperately needed said assistance after decades of civil war. [533] In 1944, the German armies were pushed out of the Baltic states (with the exception of the Ostland), which were then re-annexed into the Soviet Union. PM Modi's advice to BJP workers: 'Don't make anti-Muslim remarks' Views: 264. [230] Stalin lost the argument, after which he accepted Lenin's decision and supported it. [320] Large numbers died during the journey. For this reason, he retained the Leninist view that world revolution was still a necessity to ensure the ultimate victory of socialism. [167] During this raid, Stalin smuggled Lenin out of the newspaper's office and took charge of the Bolshevik leader's safety, moving him between Petrograd safe houses before smuggling him to Razliv. [762], Trotsky and several other Soviet figures promoted the idea that Stalin was a mediocrity. Comrade Stalin constantly warns us that not conceit but modesty distinguishes the Bolshevik, that any leader, in whatever post he may be, is the servant of the people. [93] By that year according to the historian Robert Service Stalin had established himself as "Georgia's leading Bolshevik". Stalin contained a lot of bad leadership characteristics but I have cut it down to some of the worst in my opinion. [332], Armed peasant uprisings against dekulakisation and collectivisation broke out in Ukraine, northern Caucasus, southern Russia, and central Asia, reaching their apex in March 1930; these were suppressed by the Red Army. Stalin, under the rules of the Party, was now the de-facto successor of Lenin. [245] In mid-1921, Stalin returned to the southern Caucasus, there calling on Georgian Communists to avoid the chauvinistic Georgian nationalism which marginalised the Abkhazian, Ossetian, and Adjarian minorities in Georgia. [619] Privately, Stalin revealed that he had underestimated the Chinese Communists and their ability to win the civil war, instead encouraging them to make another peace with the KMT. Comrades! [584] Current estimates indicate that between one million and 1.5million people died from malnutrition or disease as a result. There were two Five Year Plans - first from 1928 to 1933 and the second from 1932 to 1937. [214] He returned to Moscow between January and March 1919,[215] before being assigned to the Western Front at Petrograd. "[322], In 1929, the Politburo announced the mass collectivisation of agriculture,[324] establishing both kolkhozy collective farms and sovkhoz state farms. Unrest soon spread across the Russian Empire in what came to be known as the Revolution of 1905. [334] Although he and Stalin had been close for many years,[335] Bukharin expressed concerns about these policies; he regarded them as a return to Lenin's old "war communism" policy and believed that it would fail. 227 in July 1942, which directed that those retreating unauthorised would be placed in "penal battalions" used as cannon fodder on the front lines. Lenin was seen as the figure head of the Communist Party, Stalin used this to his advantage in winning over the Russia population. [863] The other, Alexander, was the son of Lidia Pereprygina; he was raised as the son of a peasant fisherman and the Soviet authorities made him swear never to reveal that Stalin was his biological father. Joseph Stalin was the leader of Soviet Russia. [847], Stalin's second wife was Nadezhda Alliluyeva; theirs was not an easy relationship, and they often fought. [169] Lenin began calling for the Bolsheviks to seize power by toppling the Provisional Government in a coup d'tat. leader Sanjay Raut to join Rahul Gandhi's 'padyatra' in J&K . [587] Tensions among these former Allies grew,[557] resulting in the Cold War. [942], "Stalin" redirects here. [413] This mixed approach began to change in December 1934, after prominent party member Sergey Kirov was murdered. [172] In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup the October Revolution was directed. He had to share power with a collection of other Soviet leaders, including Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. [624] The North Korean Army launched the Korean War by invading the south in June 1950, making swift gains and capturing Seoul. It sought to provide a guide to leading the country after his death. Their economy grew, markedly unaffected by the Great Depression, and people usually like leaders who bring prosperity. [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. [940] There have also been requests by communist officials to canonize Stalin as an official saint, although these requests were never implemented the author referencing the church's suffering under Stalin's rule. [485] By July, Germany's Luftwaffe was bombing Moscow,[484] and by October the Wehrmacht was amassing for a full assault on the capital. [220] By that time, Sovnarkom had turned its attention to spreading proletarian revolution abroad, to this end forming the Communist International in March 1919; Stalin attended its inaugural ceremony. [221] Although Stalin did not share Lenin's belief that Europe's proletariat were on the verge of revolution, he acknowledged that as long as it stood alone, Soviet Russia remained vulnerable. [610] In Czechoslovakia, where the communists did have a level of popular support, they were elected the largest party in 1946. [735] Throughout his life, he used various nicknames and pseudonyms, including "Koba", "Soselo", and "Ivanov",[736] adopting "Stalin" in 1912; it was based on the Russian word for "steel" and has often been translated as "Man of Steel". [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". Stalin was officially the leader of the Communist party, but to many in the Party, he was only a figurehead. [733] He rarely spoke before large audiences, and preferred to express himself in written form. Stalin's enemies. This article reassesses Stalin's attempts to construct legitimacy through the development of a 'cult of personality', built through an overt co-option of the charismatic authority generated by Lenin's revolutionary leadership. fair elections Views: 47. [256] Lenin twice asked Stalin to procure poison so that he could commit suicide, but Stalin never did so. [616] Monarchy was abolished in Bulgaria and Romania. [656] An autopsy revealed that he had died of a cerebral haemorrhage and also that his cerebral arteries were severely damaged by atherosclerosis. [856] After Stalin's death, Svetlana changed her surname from Stalin to Alliluyeva,[674] and defected to the U.S.[857], After Nadezhda's death, Stalin became increasingly close to his sister-in-law Zhenya Alliluyeva;[858] Montefiore believed that they were lovers. Denise ate pancakes and eggs for breakfast [648] There, he emphasised what he regarded as leadership qualities necessary in the future and highlighted the weaknesses of various potential successors, particularly Molotov and Mikoyan. [813] He also enjoyed practical jokes; for instance, he would place a tomato on the seat of Politburo members and wait for them to sit on it. Ruthless in his conduct, moderate estimates suggest that he was directly responsible for the death of 40 million people. [645] In 1950, Stalin issued the article "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics", which reflected his interest in questions of Russian nationhood. Furthermore, Hitler, in contrast to Stalin, was able to add the authority of "spiritual founder" of national socialism to that of party leader. In 1929, his son Yakov unsuccessfully attempted suicide; his failure earned Stalin's contempt. [855] After the Second World War, he made little time for his children and his family played a decreasingly important role in his life. [597] In contrast to his approach to the Baltic states, he rejected the proposal of merging the new communist states into the Soviet Union, rather recognising them as independent nation-states. [402] Stalin admired Hitler, particularly his manoeuvres to remove rivals within the Nazi Party in the Night of the Long Knives. 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