General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Even though The Soviet Union turned from a rural farming country to an industrialized power house in just a matter of years, Stalin’s plans were more harmful than helpful to the Soviet Union because of the famine he caused, and the millions that died because of his actions. Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks or communist party that took control of Russia on October 24, 1917. During the Russian Revolution, he was a general who fought in major battles in the Russian Civil War…

way up the political ranks until he became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (History.com Staff). Under his leadership came a period of terror across Russia. The Great purge, 1934 to 1939, was an unjust era of false persecution, high police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs, show trials, imprisonment, and even executions directly caused by Josef Stalin’s paranoia. Many people in the Soviet Union were affected during this era, and many…

Stalin’s rise to power and ruler of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1954 had a drastic effect on the country. To some extent, his rule was beneficial to Soviet Union, but overall, it was majorly devastating, particularly to the wellbeing of the Russian people. During his time as leader, Stalin implemented many significant changes within the Soviet Union, such as his program of rapid industrialization and modernization, which achieved huge increases in Soviet productivity and economic growth, but…

Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) was born on December 18, 1878, and died March 5, 1953. Stalin was the secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from April 3, 1922, up until October 16, 1953, and premier of the Soviet state from 1941 until the time of his death. (Hingley) Stalin was utterly obsessed with security and power Stalin did numerous things to ensure his safety, such as aligning with the United States during the Second World War, murdering and…

Since he was a part of the new generation of leaders in the Soviet Union, he was a very dedicated reformer and this allowed for vast changes in the Soviet Union. This can be seen when “Gorbachev initiated the twin policies of glasnost(openness) and perestroika (restructuring), with the intentions of liberalizing and reforming communism” (O’Neil, 271). Gorbachev…

Workers Party led by Lenin. He eventually had control over the Russian Government and became dominant political power. The group originally came about at the party’s second congress in 1903 when Lenin’s group made suggestions that the party member be restricted to professional revolutionaries. They won majority of the party’s central committee also was on the editorial board of its newspaper Iska. They thought of the name Bolshevik and dubbed their opponents the Menshevik. Even though both…

priesthood school. Afterwards he then attended the Tiflis Spiritual Seminary after receiving a scholarship their. He was later expelled by missing his final exams. Afterwards Stalin joined the communist party and his start to his rise of power was rather quick starting in 1922 when he was appointed as general…

Joseph Stalin is probably one of the most well - known dictators in world history. He is famous for his strict rule over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). He is responsible for an estimated 20 million deaths and the times he spent as the ruler of Soviet Russia will never be forgotten. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 18, 1879 in Gori, Georgia which was then a part of the Russian Empire. His Father was a cobbler and…

trade with other countries. Russia then went through rapid political liberalization under Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soon after, there was a system collapse and the Soviet Union came to an end. China, on the other hand, began a, “managed transition that involved the step-by-step introduction of elements of capitalism while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) retained a monopoly of political power.” The Chinese political system continues to be…

policies they enact or decisions they make. One such person was the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev who was born on 2nd March 1931 to peasant parents in the Stavropol territory in southwestern Russia (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). In spite of his poor background, he steadily rose through the ranks of the then ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and managed to implement sweeping reforms to the Union’s political systems. As…