Joseph Stalin

comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”- Michael Ende. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, both very manipulative people, may have seemed great to many people of Germany and Russia at first, but in the end they were known as very evil. After World War I, Hitler entered politics and realized his ability of giving great speeches.…

Joseph Stalin, a prominent member of the Bolshevik party, and later one of the most important men in the twentieth century, took control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin. From the beginning Stalin, had a clear vision of the direction the Soviet Union had to take. To Stalin, the answer to strengthen Russia was rapid industrialization. After all, Marxist theory ordained that a socialist society must be highly industrialized with an overwhelming preponderance of workers.…

Mao and Stalin were both horrific, but strategic communist leaders. During their time as leaders, they showed other countries who was in control and showed their people the power of communism. China was not ready for anything when Mao came to power. The USSR had their share of suffering, especially after the World Wars. Although Mao and Stalin lived during different times and in different countries, they share similarities in their leadership and policies, they had their differences in how they…

wore uniforms. Generally we can say that most of them were dictatores, but not all of them. In some places uniform serves as an expression of power and importance. The first dictator, who was known as the biggest dictatore of all times, is Joseph Stalin. Stalin was the head of the soviet unionbetween.. He always wore his military uniform and even forced the population to wear uniforms. Probably as an expression of power of the soviet union superpower. Researchers attempted to count the number of…

Joseph Stalin watched the fall of the Romanovs, the rise of communism, helped win a world war, and killed millions of his own people. All of this started December 18, 1879, the day he was born. Originally he was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Born to a poor family with an abusive father his mother encouraged him to become a priest. She enrolled him do so he enrolled in a school. However in 1899 he dropped out and left his hometown of Gori, Georgia. He then joined the Social Democratic…

excerpt expresses traditionalist views in which he believes that Russia is to blame for the origins of the Cold War. He overall states that the desire of Stalin to make himself and the Soviet Union be the most powerful causes the tension between powers and makes the war inevitable. The author is trying to answer the question: What actions did Stalin take or not take in order to make the Soviet Union a more dominant power. He asserts that the contrast between the peaceful United States and the…

It was Josef Stalin, the unflappable leader of the USSR through the beginning of the Cold War that said, “everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.” Stalin, in these words, distilled the central conflict of the Cold War: the maintenance of spheres of influence and the purveyance of certain ideologies. For the Soviets, this ideology was Communism, and, more specifically, the new Stalinist strain of Marxism-Leninism, focused on state terror and industrial growth. However,…

Joseph Stalin once said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” This quote kind of symbolized what Stalin did when he would keep throwing his own people at the German snot carrying about how many millions of his people would die. Joseph Stalin help his country win World War II, but at a cost of millions of his people dead and his people’s rights were ignored. Joseph Stalin, originally named Joseph Djuskashvili, was born in 1879 in Georgia, Russia (Mathews, 37).…

1942, December 18, Moscow, Russia. The Soviet Union is at a critical point in the war, creating stress on its political leaders, to relieve the pressure Stalin issued a custom where citizens could invite them for an evening dinner. Numerous citizens fear the leaders of Russia, my parents too fear their leaders, and thanks to me they get to meet Stalin himself. That’s right even I; an eleven-year-old boy could invite a leader to dinner. Political pioneers hardly ever got invited, the fear of…

The leadership of Joseph Stalin can be summed up in these words: “The triumph of one man turned into the tragedy of an entire nation” - Dmitri Volkogonov (“Joseph Stalin”). Joseph Stalin, one of Russia’s worst and most tragic dictators, along with the help of Leon Trotsky certainly changed Russia during the time of the Russian Revolution. They were responsible for many major events, such as the Revolution From Above and taking leadership of the Red Army, that occurred during this time because of…