Contrary to Vladimir Lenin, who was quite modest and refused any kind of public praise, Stalin relied on constant worship in what became known as Stalin’s cult of personality. In this sense, Stalin’s personality cult went against traditional Bolshevik practice. This cult allowed Stalin to have a stronger support system for his policies as he lacked the same prestige as Lenin, especially in the 1930s when the famine of 1932-1933 increased opposition and he started to rely on drastic measures such as the Great Purge, in which he eradicated any people he perceived to be a threat to his authority. Thus, Stalin’s cult also grew as his absolute power and dictatorial leadership style also grew in the 1930s. Interestingly, however, Stalin was significantly
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But Stalin found that I was in the wood
And Stalin spied, heard I was in deadly danger
So he sent a tank out for me,
And I rolled off down the forest path” The image with which Stalin presented himself to the children was arguably equally as—or even more so—significant as how he portrayed himself to the rest of the population, as they would be the future of the state and he needed to ensure absolute power over the Soviet Union until his death.
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The Bolshevik primary education system was centered around interdisciplinary concepts, instead of instruction being structured into traditional, separate subjects, with a central theme on human labour in preparation for the labour workforce that the students would partake in upon graduation. Accordingly, history, geography, economics, political economy and sociology where all fused together into social science courses, in which their interdisciplinary nature could be discussed more easily. Stalin, however, was very critical of this multidisciplinary approach, reasoning that “[t]he textbooks and the instruction [of history] itself is done in such a way that sociology is substituted for history…” and that “we must give an impression of this epoch, about the events which took place at that time, who ruled, what sort of government there was, what sort of policies were carried out, and how events transpired. Without this, we won’t have any sort of civil history”. He argued that Bolshevik instruction of history was too fluid and did not focus sufficiently on dates of events or significant historical figures, causing their representation of history to be very muddled, and in Stalin’s extremes, insignificant. Thus, Stalin sought to reform the education system, particularly the history curriculum to make it more rigid and focused on more
But Stalin found that I was in the wood
And Stalin spied, heard I was in deadly danger
So he sent a tank out for me,
And I rolled off down the forest path” The image with which Stalin presented himself to the children was arguably equally as—or even more so—significant as how he portrayed himself to the rest of the population, as they would be the future of the state and he needed to ensure absolute power over the Soviet Union until his death.
Overview of Stalin’s reforms of the History …show more content…
The Bolshevik primary education system was centered around interdisciplinary concepts, instead of instruction being structured into traditional, separate subjects, with a central theme on human labour in preparation for the labour workforce that the students would partake in upon graduation. Accordingly, history, geography, economics, political economy and sociology where all fused together into social science courses, in which their interdisciplinary nature could be discussed more easily. Stalin, however, was very critical of this multidisciplinary approach, reasoning that “[t]he textbooks and the instruction [of history] itself is done in such a way that sociology is substituted for history…” and that “we must give an impression of this epoch, about the events which took place at that time, who ruled, what sort of government there was, what sort of policies were carried out, and how events transpired. Without this, we won’t have any sort of civil history”. He argued that Bolshevik instruction of history was too fluid and did not focus sufficiently on dates of events or significant historical figures, causing their representation of history to be very muddled, and in Stalin’s extremes, insignificant. Thus, Stalin sought to reform the education system, particularly the history curriculum to make it more rigid and focused on more