Joseph Stalin Summary

Stalin, Joseph HEAD OF STATE OF THE SOVIET UNION1879–1953 Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born December 21, 1879, to a peasant family in Georgia. He joined the Russian Social Democratic ... Read more

The Soviet statesman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union and the leader of world communism for almost 30 years.Under Joseph Stalin the Soviet Union greatly enlarged its... Read more

In the following review, Karpovich finds Leninism valuable because of its contemporaneity with Stalin 's early years in power but otherwise finds the theories espoused "monotonous"... Read more

In the following essay, Chamberlin examines the possible motives behind Nikita Khrushchev's decision in the early 1960s to openly denounce Stalin and his tyranny by having Stalin's body ... Read more

In the following essay, Larson examines the differences in retrospective opinion of the leadership of Stalin and his successor, Nikita Khrushchev. Whatever else Communist power brought to Russia, it d... Read more

In the following essay, Parry discusses changes in the policy of terror instituted by Stalin, most notably the policy of arresting and executing loyal followers of Stalinism in addition to those openl... Read more

In the following essay, Layton finds parallels between Leo Tolstoy's portrayal of Czar Nicholas I in Xadzi-Murat (1912) and Aleksandr Solzenicyn's depiction of Stalin in The First Circle... Read more

In the following essay, Freidin examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding the writing and publication of Osip Mandel'shtam's "Ode to Stalin." If manuscripts do not ... Read more

In the following essay, Nickson uses an examination of the adherence of George Bernard Shaw to Soviet-style communism under Stalin as an example of such adherence among many artists and intellectuals ... Read more

In the following essay, Marsh reviews portrayals of Stalin in Soviet literature written and published during his leadership. With the exception of Lenin,1 no historical figure in modern times has been... Read more

In the following essay, Abel rejects Marxism and national socialism as the moral doctrines they were purported to be by their adherents and focuses the blame for crimes and brutality committed for the... Read more

In the following essay, Gray examines Stalin 's position on linguistics in Marxism and Problems of Linguistics. No, no: arrests vary very widely in form. In 1926 Irma Mendel, a Hungarian, obta... Read more

In the following essay, Reeder examines the poetry, little known outside of Russia, written by Anna Akhmatova during Stalin's years in power. For a long time now Anna Akhmatova has been known i... Read more

In the following review, Oudendyk finds The History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. interesting but unfortunately too biased to leave the reader with anything but a distorted picture. A New generatio... Read more

In the following essay, which first appeared in the New Yorker in 1946, Wilson reviews the English translation of Leon Trotsky's biography Stalin, finding it a volume of great historical and po... Read more

In the following essay, Meek examines Stalin's economic theory. Whenever great changes in basic economic and social institutions are brought about, the theoreticians of the new order begin seek... Read more

Stalin's rise to absolute power began to progress steadily after the death of Lenin in 1924. His most significant methods can be classified as those of his administration, his purges of the party, the... Read more

The year was 1924 and the USSR was suffering from great economic and political corruption. Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks and a key revolutionary figure in Russian history, had passed aw... Read more

During the 1930s, the government in the U.S.S.R felt forced to change the country to be less backward, as many rulers had felt compelled to do since the reign of Peter the Great. The U.S.S.R. was a l... Read more

Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from a backward country into a strong modern state. But the price of this was misery for the soviet people. How accurate was this view of Stalin's rule between 1928... Read more

Benito Mussolini of Italy and Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R. cast long shadows across the landscape of the twentieth century. They came to power with the support of their people, but they lost the sup... Read more

Russia's victory in World War Two did prove that there were Russian strengths, such as those of the improvised, command economy and the new adaptive method of leadership that could counter balance th... Read more

The rise of governments within governments is not an uncommon happening throughout the history of the world. However, there must always be a central power behind the uprising of a new government. I... Read more

Two of the most powerful and feared personalities of the twentieth century were Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. These men transformed their nations into great and powerful countries. But during th... Read more

A true man of terror, Joseph Stalin will be remembered in both Russian and world history as a tyrannical puppet master with a gun. Stalin was renowned for making people do what he wanted, while ha... Read more

Stalin held on to power in the Soviet Union from 1928-53 in several different ways. Stalin was a strong and determined man who did not let anything deter him from his path . He was the leader of a mod... Read more

Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev were both very brilliant and strong rulers of the Soviet Union. However the way they ruled were both very alike and very different. Stalin ruled for a period of t... Read more

Joseph Stalin arose from political obscurity to control the USSR by 1939 and become one of history's most notorious leaders. Stalin was able to control the Soviet party, the rural and urban workers, a... Read more

Stalin's reign cannot be considered a success as his policies of collectivisation and industrialization did not increase the standard of living of the Soviet people. When Stalin became leader of the S... Read more

After Lenin's death in 1924, there was a power struggle for the control of the USSR until Stalin emerged as its leader in 1929. Why did Stalin rather than Trotsky, who had led the army during the Russ... Read more

JOSEPH STALIN On December 21, 1879 Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born in Gori, Georgia, the eastern edge of the Black Sea in the Caucasus Mountains. He was called Soso, which is Georgean fo... Read more

An effective leadership is reliant on the relationship one develops with his followers. This relationship often determines the success of a leader's policies. Stalin was a leader who sought to destroy... Read more