Was Joseph Stalin A Threat To The Soviet Union

The mid-20th century was the time of the rise of Communism, in which Soviet Union (or Russia) was the pioneer. Under the leadership of Lenin, the Communist Party gained power in Russia in 1920, ending the bloody Civil War. With the authority of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, Soviet Union was significantly improved economically and societally, especially after suffering the tremendous casualties since the Great War. Nonetheless, after Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalin finally gained power and quickly, he made several significant changes in the Soviet society. Under Stalin’s regime, the Soviet communism system turned out that it did not work as efficiently as Karl Marx predicted and Lenin expected.
After controlling the communist government, Stalin became to extend his influence and quickly possessed absolute …show more content…
As Stalin firmly stressed, Soviet’s economic backwardness was the result of non-modern technology in industry and agriculture that critically decreased the quantities of products and thus affected the national economy overall. Moreover, while other countries gradually transferred from small individual operations to large national business, Soviet Union’s economy still worked as a traditional system, “small commodity producers”, which caused the nation’s economy step behind when comparing to capitalism countries who highly encouraged and supported big business. Furthermore, Stalin considered the external condition more hazardous circumstance since other nations had the much more developed industry and continuously gained great achievements in technology than the Soviet Union, “compared with which our large-scale socialist industry is like an island in the midst of the sea, an island whose base is expanding daily, but which is nevertheless an island in the midst of the