[493] Stalin issued Order No. [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. Vozhd ("leader") Joseph Stalin, dictator of Soviet Union has also been referred to as Father of Nations, "Great Leader . [50] Remaining underground, he helped plan a demonstration for May Day 1901, in which 3,000 marchers clashed with the authorities. [679] According to Montefiore, Stalin's embrace of the Russian nation was pragmatic, as the Russians were the core of the population of the USSR; it was not a rejection of his Georgian origins. [694] According to Sandle, Stalin was "committed to the creation of a society that was industrialised, collectivised, centrally planned and technologically advanced. [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. [83], In November 1905, the Georgian Bolsheviks elected Stalin as one of their delegates to a Bolshevik conference in Saint Petersburg. Joseph Stalin, Russian in full Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, original name (Georgian) Ioseb Dzhugashvili, (born December 18 [December 6, Old Style], 1878, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire [see Researcher's Note] died March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941-53), who for a quarter . [293] Stalin in turn accused Kamenev and Zinoviev of reintroducing factionalism and thus instability into the party. [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. Biblography: Press of the Communist International (Until February 1st, 1921) Appeal to Workers and Sailors, The Group of English Speaking Communists in Russia, 1919. [763], Trotsky and several other Soviet figures promoted the idea that Stalin was a mediocrity. [395] He declared that "socialism, which is the first phase of communism, has basically been achieved in this country". Study now. [638], In his later years, Stalin was in poor health. [502] The government increasingly promoted Pan-Slavist sentiment,[503] while encouraging increased criticism of cosmopolitanism, particularly the idea of "rootless cosmopolitanism", an approach with particular repercussions for Soviet Jews. [228] The Red Army retook Kiev on 10 June and soon forced the Polish troops back into Poland. [616] In Poland, the Soviets merged various socialist parties into the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), and vote rigging was used to ensure that the PZPR secured office. [229] On 16 July, the Central Committee decided to take the war into Polish territory. [900], With a high number of excess deaths occurring under his rule, Stalin has been labelled "one of the most notorious figures in history. Get the answers you need, now! [299], Stalin was now the party's supreme leader,[300] although he was not the head of government, a task he entrusted to his key ally Vyacheslav Molotov. By July of 1922 the state had confiscated vast stores of precious items from the church. [717] He was of the view that if they became fully autonomous, then they would end up being controlled by the most reactionary elements of their community; as an example he cited the largely illiterate Tatars, whom he claimed would end up dominated by their mullahs. [199] Stalin thought it necessary because unlike Lenin he was unconvinced that Europe was on the verge of proletarian revolution. [110] In June, he escaped the village and made it to Kotlas disguised as a woman and from there to Saint Petersburg. [509] This resulted in the protracted Battle of Stalingrad. [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. [461] On 28 September, Germany and the Soviet Union exchanged some of their newly conquered territories; Germany gained the linguistically Polish-dominated areas of Lublin Province and part of Warsaw Province while the Soviets gained Lithuania. [880] He has also been labelled a "red fascist". After the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution and created a one-party state under the new Communist Party in 1917, Stalin joined its governing Politburo. [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. [570] In the war's aftermath, some of Stalin's associates suggested modifications to government policy. [694] Stalin respected Lenin, but not uncritically,[699] and spoke out when he believed that Lenin was wrong. He edited the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets. [530] Discussing the fate of the Balkans, later in 1944 Churchill agreed to Stalin's suggestion that after the war, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia would come under the Soviet sphere of influence while Greece would come under that of the West. [863] One of them, Konstantin Kuzakov, later taught philosophy at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute, but never met Stalin. [609] There, he offered advice on their ideas; for instance he cautioned against the Yugoslav idea for a Balkan federation incorporating Bulgaria and Albania. [356], Stalin desired a "cultural revolution",[357] entailing both creation of a culture for the "masses" and wider dissemination of previously elite culture. [151][152], In Kureika, Stalin lived among the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak peoples,[153] and spent much of his time fishing. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) (Name in Georgian ; Russian: ) was a Georgian-born Soviet politician who was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral . [611] The 1947 Hungarian elections were also rigged by Stalin, with the Hungarian Working People's Party taking control. Stalin is also considered one of the most dangerous totalitarian leaders in history, his violent excesses often compared to those of Adolf Hitler. [410] With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, the Soviet Union and China signed a non-aggression pact the following August. [721] In private he often used coarse language and profanity, although avoided doing so in public. Rosa Luxemburg, 1918-1919. [471], The speed of the German victory over and occupation of France in mid-1940 took Stalin by surprise. 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", "A Tale of "Two Totalitarianisms": The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism", "Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 19311933", "Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data. [371] This preoccupation with opposing rival leftists concerned Bukharin, who regarded the growth of fascism and the far right across Europe as a far greater threat. Churchill was concerned that this was the case and unsuccessfully tried to convince the U.S. that the Western Allies should pursue the same goal. [715] Ultimately he believed that all nations would merge into a single, global human community,[715] and regarded all nations as inherently equal. [320] Large numbers died during the journey. [588] In April 1949, the Western powers established the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), an international military alliance of capitalist countries. [914] In October 1961, Stalin's body was removed from the mausoleum and buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, the location marked by a bust. 6 December]1878[1] 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and political theorist who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. [551], Stalin attended the Potsdam Conference in JulyAugust 1945, alongside his new British and U.S. counterparts, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and President Harry Truman. [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. He was the first fascist leader in Europe, and a model for later leaders such as Hitler and Franco. [604] 1932 (December) Stalin announced that his first Five Year Plan, introduced in 1928, had been such a success that he was ending it a year early. [45] He had a light workload and therefore had plenty of time for revolutionary activity. 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. These criticised Stalin's rude manners and excessive power, suggesting that Stalin should be removed from the position of general secretary. [177] According to the historian Oleg Khlevniuk, Stalin "filled an important role [in the October Revolution] as a senior Bolshevik, member of the party's Central Committee, and editor of its main newspaper";[178] the historian Stephen Kotkin similarly noted that Stalin had been "in the thick of events" in the build-up to the coup. [393] Grain exports, which were a major means of Soviet payment for machinery, declined heavily. [517] Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the east of the front, safe from German invasion and aerial assault. [250] At the 11th Party Congress in 1922, Lenin nominated Stalin as the party's new General Secretary. A 1940 poster by Nikolai Zhukov (Fig. [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. [642] In November, the Slnsk trial took place in Czechoslovakia as 13 senior Communist Party figures, 11 of them Jewish, were accused and convicted of being part of a vast Zionist-American conspiracy to subvert Eastern Bloc governments. The Soviet Union was the world's first Marxist-Communist state . [823] After Stalin's death, Khrushchev claimed that Stalin encouraged him to incite anti-Semitism in Ukraine, allegedly telling him that "the good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews. [67] He called for the Georgian Marxist movement to split from its Russian counterpart, resulting in several RSDLP members accusing him of holding views contrary to the ethos of Marxist internationalism and calling for his expulsion from the party; he soon recanted his opinions. [15] In 1886, they moved into the house of a family friend, Father Christopher Charkviani. His own woman [Alliluyeva] was enough for him, and he paid scant attention to her. [477] Despite intelligence agencies repeatedly warning him of Germany's intentions, Stalin was taken by surprise. [235] Trotsky claimed that Stalin sabotaged the campaign by disobeying troop transfer orders. [799] Stalin's favourite subject was history, closely followed by Marxist theory and then fiction. [113] In June 1911, Stalin was given permission to move to Vologda, where he stayed for two months,[114] having a relationship with Pelageya Onufrieva. [120] In February 1912, Stalin again escaped to Saint Petersburg,[121] tasked with converting the Bolshevik weekly newspaper, Zvezda ("Star") into a daily, Pravda ("Truth"). [924] He remains a revered figure among many Russian nationalists, who feel nostalgic about the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II,[925] and he is regularly invoked approvingly within both Russia's far-left and far-right. [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. [ 1] Lenin had held the party together since 1917 and had been the central person to determine its policies. [346] His speeches and articles reflected his utopian vision of the Soviet Union rising to unparalleled heights of human development, creating a "new Soviet person". [724] He remained proud of his Georgian identity,[725] and throughout his life retained a heavy Georgian accent when speaking Russian. [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. Early Life of Joseph Stalin. [190], Having dropped his editorship of Pravda,[191] Stalin was appointed the People's Commissar for Nationalities. The U.S. also offered financial assistance to countries as part of the Marshall Plan on the condition that they opened their markets to trade, aware that the Soviets would never agree. [588] Although Stalin publicly described the British and U.S. governments as aggressive, he thought it unlikely that a war with them would be imminent, believing that several decades of peace was likely. [682] Stalin believed in the need to adapt Marxism to changing circumstances; in 1917, he declared that "there is dogmatic Marxism and there is creative Marxism. [736] Throughout his life, he used various nicknames and pseudonyms, including "Koba", "Soselo", and "Ivanov",[737] adopting "Stalin" in 1912; it was based on the Russian word for "steel" and has often been translated as "Man of Steel". [315], In early 1928 Stalin travelled to Novosibirsk, where he alleged that kulaks were hoarding their grain and ordered that the kulaks be arrested and their grain confiscated, with Stalin bringing much of the area's grain back to Moscow with him in February. [920] In October 2017, Putin opened the Wall of Grief memorial in Moscow, noting that the "terrible past" would neither be "justified by anything" nor "erased from the national memory. [354] Nationalist sentiment among ethnic minorities was suppressed. [850] It is unclear if Stalin ever had a mistress during or after his marriage to Alliluyeva. [891] Khlevniuk noted that at various points, particularly when Stalin was old and frail, there were "periodic manifestations" in which the party oligarchy threatened his autocratic control. I therefore propose to comrades that they should devise a means of removing him from this job and should appoint to this job someone else who is distinguished from comrade Stalin in all other respects only by the single superior aspect that he should be more tolerant, more polite and more attentive towards comrades, less capricious, etc. [719] Stalin's push for Soviet westward expansion into eastern Europe resulted in accusations of Russian imperialism. [418] Stalin issued a decree establishing NKVD troikas which could mete out rulings without involving the courts. [154], While Stalin was in exile, Russia entered the First World War, and in October 1916 Stalin and other exiled Bolsheviks were conscripted into the Russian Army, leaving for Monastyrskoe. 1. [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. [495] Responding to the invasion, the Soviets intensified their industrial enterprises in central Russia, focusing almost entirely on production for the military. This concept was intricately linked to factional struggles within the party, particularly against Trotsky. [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. [303] According to Montefiore, at this point "Stalin was the leader of the oligarchs but he was far from a dictator". [432], During the 1930s and 1940s, NKVD groups assassinated defectors and opponents abroad;[433] in August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, eliminating the last of Stalin's opponents among the former Party leadership. The Russian Empire became a de facto republic, headed by a Provisional Government dominated by liberals. It ended with the Nazis' defeat, and the emergence of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. as the world's two "superpowers." For more information, see the History SparkNote on World War II. [85] At the conference Stalin met Lenin for the first time. [232] In Moscow, Lenin and Trotsky blamed him for his behaviour in the PolishSoviet war. [409] Germany and Italy backed the Nationalist faction, which was ultimately victorious in March 1939. [542] Many Soviet soldiers engaged in looting, pillaging, and rape, both in Germany and parts of Eastern Europe. [170] Lenin returned to Petrograd and secured a majority in favour of a coup at a meeting of the Central Committee on 10 October. [734] He rarely spoke before large audiences, and preferred to express himself in written form. "[730], Stalin had a soft voice,[731] and when speaking Russian did so slowly, carefully choosing his phrasing. [501] The Internationale was dropped as the country's national anthem, to be replaced with a more patriotic song. [230] Stalin had cautioned against this; he believed that nationalism would lead the Polish working-classes to support their government's war effort. Stalin was awarded in 1922. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922 . [381] In 1936, Nikolai Yezhov became head of the NKVD. [672] Reforms to the Soviet system were immediately implemented. This was, in effect, a new Russian revolution more devastating in its effects than those of 1917. [244] The Georgian Communist Party opposed the idea, resulting in the Georgian affair. [122] The new newspaper was launched in April 1912,[123] although Stalin's role as editor was kept secret. [772], Stalin could play different roles to different audiences,[773] and was adept at deception, often deceiving others as to his true motives and aims. [391] Stalin would not acknowledge that his policies had contributed to the famine,[380] the existence of which was kept secret from foreign observers. [922] In recent years, the government and general public of Russia has been accused of rehabilitating Stalin. [262] Lenin accused Stalin of "Great Russian chauvinism"; Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism". [740] 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,[741] which was probably the result of being hit, at the age of 12, by a horse-drawn carriage. [728] Service also noted that Stalin "would never be Russian", could not credibly pass as one, and never tried to pretend that he was. [780] He lacked compassion,[786] something Volkogonov suggested might have been accentuated by his many years in prison and exile,[787] although he was capable of acts of kindness to strangers, even amid the Great Terror. [411] Stalin aided the Chinese as the KMT and the Communists had suspended their civil war and formed the desired United Front. [693] Service argued that Stalin's Marxism was imbued with a great deal of Russian nationalism. 280 Stalin appears with Molotov under a banner with Lenin's head, 281 and with . Lenin's Testament, formally Letter to the Congress, Russian Pismo K Syezdu, two-part document dictated by Vladimir I. Lenin on Dec. 23-26, 1922, and Jan. 4, 1923, and addressed to a future Communist Party Congress. 1 Benito Mussolini and Fascism in Italy (1922-1939) 2 The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) 3 The Rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany (1914-1939) 3.1 The Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf (1923-1925) 3.2 The Nazi Regime (1933-1939) 4 Joseph Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union (1924-1934) 4.1 The First Five-Year Plan and Collectivization (1927-1939) [75] Stalin was in Baku in February when ethnic violence broke out between Armenians and Azeris; at least 2,000 were killed. [292] At the 14th Party Congress in December, they launched an attack against Stalin's faction, but it was unsuccessful. Leon Trotsky was a significant figure in Marxist theory and politics and a crucial figure in the Russian Revolution. 719 ] Stalin issued a decree establishing NKVD troikas which could mete out rulings involving. 1947 Hungarian elections were also rigged by Stalin, with the Hungarian People. 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