[598] In September 1949 the Western powers transformed Western Germany into an independent Federal Republic of Germany; in response the Soviets formed East Germany into the German Democratic Republic in October. [493] Stalin issued Order No. [654] Stalin died on 5 March 1953. Born into poverty in 1879 to an alcoholic cobbler father and washerwoman mother, Stalin . Malenkov denounced the Stalin personality cult,[911] which was subsequently criticised in Pravda. He was captured by the German Army and then committed suicide. Stalin and a fellow senior Bolshevik Leon Trotsky both endorsed Lenin's plan of action, but it was initially opposed by Kamenev and other party members. [933] A 2017 Pew Research survey had 57% of Georgians saying he played a positive role in history, compared to 18% of those expressing the same for Mikhail Gorbachev. [108] There he led the imprisoned Bolsheviks, organised discussion groups, and ordered the killing of suspected informants. [521] There remained mutual suspicions between Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who were together known as the "Big Three". [190], Having dropped his editorship of Pravda,[191] Stalin was appointed the People's Commissar for Nationalities. [451] Militarily, the Soviets also faced a threat from the east, with Soviet troops clashing with the expansionist Japanese in the latter part of the 1930s. [743] From mid-1918 until his death he favoured military-style clothing, in particular long black boots, light-coloured collarless tunics, and a gun. [685] Stalin referred to himself as a praktik, meaning that he was more of a practical revolutionary than a theoretician. [424] By late 1937, all remnants of collective leadership were gone from the Politburo, which was controlled entirely by Stalin. [167] During this raid, Stalin smuggled Lenin out of the newspaper's office and took charge of the Bolshevik leader's safety, moving him between Petrograd safe houses before smuggling him to Razliv. [406] In turn, the anti-communist governments of Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936. [327] By 1932, about 62% of households involved in agriculture were part of collectives, and by 1936 this had risen to 90%. [180] Stalin backed Lenin's decision not to form a coalition with the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party, although they did form a coalition government with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. [780] Stalin denied to foreign visitors that he was a dictator, stating that those who labelled him such did not understand the Soviet governance structure. [496] Stalin exploited Nazi anti-Semitism, and in April 1942 he sponsored the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) to garner Jewish and foreign support for the Soviet war effort. Submitted by sgel on June 17, 2011. [741], During his youth, Stalin cultivated a scruffy appearance in rejection of middle-class aesthetic values. [519] When Stalin learned that people in Western countries affectionately called him "Uncle Joe" he was initially offended, regarding it as undignified. [818], Stalin publicly condemned anti-Semitism,[819] although he was repeatedly accused of it. [140] Derived from the Russian word for steel (stal),[141] this has been translated as "Man of Steel";[142] Stalin may have intended it to imitate Lenin's pseudonym. It contains a great deal of text, mostly dense exchanges between the player character and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. [50] Remaining underground, he helped plan a demonstration for May Day 1901, in which 3,000 marchers clashed with the authorities. [174] A Bolshevik-controlled ship, the Aurora, opened fire on the Winter Palace; the Provisional Government's assembled delegates surrendered and were arrested by the Bolsheviks. [59] Held first in Batumi Prison[60] and then Kutaisi Prison,[61] in mid-1903 he was sentenced to three years of exile in eastern Siberia. [922] In recent years, the government and general public of Russia has been accused of rehabilitating Stalin. [3] "Charismatic rule has long been neglected and ridiculed, but apparently it has deep roots and becomes a powerful stimulus once the proper psychological and social doubt that millions believe in it" (Neumann, 1942: p. 75). [215] In September he was returned to the Southern Front. Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 14 (ANI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday took a veiled dig at Governor RN Ravi without mentioning his name during a Youth wing event organised to remember DMK founder Peraringar Anna. [340] The USSR underwent a massive economic transformation. [537] Roosevelt and Churchill conceded to Stalin's demand that Germany pay the Soviet Union 20billion dollars in reparations, and that his country be permitted to annexe Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in exchange for entering the war against Japan. "[870] These deaths occurred as a result of collectivisation, famine, terror campaigns, disease, war and mortality rates in the Gulag. leader Sanjay Raut to join Rahul Gandhi's 'padyatra' in J&K . [506] That year, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an overall victory on the Eastern Front, to the goal of securing the oil fields in the southern Soviet Union crucial to a long-term German war effort. [804] Little of this was fiction,[805] although he could cite passages from Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Walt Whitman by heart. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's ideology. [144], In February 1913, Stalin was arrested while back in Saint Petersburg. [900], With a high number of excess deaths occurring under his rule, Stalin has been labelled "one of the most notorious figures in history. [462] A GermanSoviet Frontier Treaty was signed shortly after, in Stalin's presence. [662] The crowds of people coming to view the body were so large and disorganized that about 100 people were killed in the crush. [719], Ethnically Georgian,[720] Stalin grew up speaking the Georgian language,[721] and did not begin learning Russian until the age of eight or nine. The Kremlin became home to Stalin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, and Lenin. [77] Amid the growing violence throughout Georgia he formed further Battle Squads, with the Mensheviks doing the same. [407], When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, the Soviets sent 648 aircraft and 407 tanks to the left-wing Republican faction; these were accompanied by 3,000 Soviet troops and 42,000 members of the International Brigades set up by the Communist International. [625] The U.S. went to the UN Security Councilwhich the Soviets were boycotting over its refusal to recognise Mao's governmentand secured military support for the South Koreans. [168] In Lenin's absence, Stalin continued editing Pravda and served as acting leader of the Bolsheviks, overseeing the party's Sixth Congress, which was held covertly. His long reign finally ended. [307] Here, he argued for the concept of "Socialism in One Country", which he presented as an orthodox Leninist perspective. [103] In Baku he had reassembled his gang, the Outfit,[104] which continued to attack Black Hundreds and raised finances by running protection rackets, counterfeiting currency, and carrying out robberies. [249] Stalin also agreed to supervise the Department of Agitation and Propaganda in the Central Committee Secretariat. [111] In March 1910, he was arrested again and sent back to Solvychegodsk. Stalin later implanted the use of fear, as well as the use of a secret police force to keep the people in check. [473] After the Tripartite Pact was signed by Axis Powers Germany, Japan, and Italy in October 1940, Stalin proposed that the USSR also join the Axis alliance. [257] Despite this comradeship, Lenin disliked what he referred to as Stalin's "Asiatic" manner and told his sister Maria that Stalin was "not intelligent". Though Hitler and Stalin never met or even spoke on the telephone, their lives and fates were inextricably linked. [527] At Tehran, the trio agreed that to prevent Germany rising to military prowess yet again, the German state should be broken up. For other uses, see. [317] Stalin announced that both kulaks and the "middle peasants" must be coerced into releasing their harvest. [306], In 1926, Stalin published On Questions of Leninism. [557] His armies controlled Central and Eastern Europe up to the River Elbe. [678] Some of these derived from political expediency rather than any sincere intellectual commitment;[678] Stalin would often turn to ideology post hoc to justify his decisions. [96] After the heist, Stalin settled in Baku with his wife and son. [834] While head of the Soviet Union he remained in contact with many of his old friends in Georgia, sending them letters and gifts of money. Best known for: Fighting the Germans in WW2 and starting the Cold War. Stalin is too crude, and this defect which is entirely acceptable in our milieu and in relationships among us as communists, becomes unacceptable in the position of General Secretary. [399] During the later 1930s, Stalin placed "a few limits on the worship of his own greatness". [205] Eager to prove himself as a commander,[206] once there he took control of regional military operations. Though each loathed and feared the other, there was much Hitler and Stalin had in common. [645] He was very interested in the reigns of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. [325] Stalin barred kulaks from joining these collectives. [862] One of them, Konstantin Kuzakov, later taught philosophy at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute, but never met Stalin. [202] The governing RSDLP party was soon renamed, becoming the Russian Communist Party. [849] It is unclear if Stalin ever had a mistress during or after his marriage to Alliluyeva. [400], Seeking improved international relations, in 1934 the Soviet Union secured membership of the League of Nations, from which it had previously been excluded. [720] In private he often used coarse language and profanity, although avoided doing so in public. Acknowledge. In his early years as leader, Stalin revamped the Soviet Union's economic policy, . [727] Service also noted that Stalin "would never be Russian", could not credibly pass as one, and never tried to pretend that he was. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, massacres, and detention and interrogation by . [355] Priests, imams, and Buddhist monks faced persecution. [227] On 26 May, Stalin was moved to Ukraine, on the Southwest Front. [129], After the October 1912 Duma elections, where six Bolsheviks and six Mensheviks were elected, Stalin wrote articles calling for reconciliation between the two Marxist factions, for which Lenin criticised him. Stalin has also been described as 5ft 4,5,6.Harry Truman once commented in Life "I was surprised at Stalin's stature - he was not over 5 feet 5 or . Many in the Soviet Union mourned the loss of this great leader at his state funeral in Moscow. Firstly, the divisions within the party, made his task of eliminating people less complicated, he only had individuals, not groups of people against him. [112] There he had affairs with at least two women; his landlady, Maria Kuzakova, later gave birth to his second son, Konstantin. [425] There were mass expulsions from the party,[426] with Stalin commanding foreign communist parties to also purge anti-Stalinist elements. It repels the effects of negativity, prevents abuse of power and of justice, is contagious and promotes self-accountability. [725] According to Montefiore, despite Stalin's affinity for Russia and Russians, he remained profoundly Georgian in his lifestyle and personality. [201] The treaty gave vast areas of land and resources to the Central Powers and angered many in Russia; the Left Socialist Revolutionaries withdrew from the coalition government over the issue. [418] By the latter part of 1937, the purges had moved beyond the party and were affecting the wider population. [932] A number of Georgians resent criticism of Stalin, the most famous figure from their nation's modern history. [466] Embarrassed by their inability to defeat the Finns, the Soviets signed an interim peace treaty, in which they received territorial concessions from Finland. The third and final part shows how, through an overt co-option of Lenin's legacy, Stalin 'manufactured' a charismatic bond with the Soviet people. [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. [391] The Soviet government believed that food supplies should be prioritised for the urban workforce;[392] for Stalin, the fate of Soviet industrialisation was far more important than the lives of the peasantry. A+. [603] [929][930] At the same time, there was a growth in pro-Stalinist literature in Russia, much relying upon the misrepresentation or fabrication of source material. Stalin had called for the Chinese Communists to ally themselves with Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists, viewing a Communist-Kuomintang alliance as the best bulwark against Japanese imperial expansionism. In 1929, his son Yakov unsuccessfully attempted suicide; his failure earned Stalin's contempt. [553] Stalin pushed for reparations from Germany without regard to the base minimum supply for German citizens' survival, which worried Truman and Churchill who thought that Germany would become a financial burden for Western powers. [901] Stalin has also been accused of genocide in the cases of forced population transfer of ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and the famine in Ukraine. [764] According to biographer Montefiore, "it is clear from hostile and friendly witnesses alike that Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood". [105] They also kidnapped the children of several wealthy figures to extract ransom money. At the end of the titanic struggle he paraded himself as Generalissimus and war hero. Iosif Stalin, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow. [260], They also disagreed on the nature of the Soviet state. Joseph Stalin (trade unionist) Joseph Stalin is a Sri Lankan trade unionist, as of 2022 serving as general secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union. [759] In 1934, his new Kuntsevo Dacha was built; 9km from the Kremlin, it became his primary residence. As a result Stalin was left as the ruler of the Ussr. [185] Although not so publicly well known as Lenin or Trotsky,[186] Stalin's importance among the Bolsheviks grew. 1893 class table of Gori Religious School including a photo of Stalin. [196] His department allocated funds for establishment of presses and schools in the languages of various ethnic minorities. [34], Stalin joined a forbidden book club at the school;[35] he was particularly influenced by Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 1863 pro-revolutionary novel What Is To Be Done? On the one hand, you can argue that Stalin was clearly an effective leader. [77] Stalin formed a Bolshevik Battle Squad which he used to try to keep Baku's warring ethnic factions apart; he also used the unrest as a cover for stealing printing equipment. [157] Stalin was required to serve four more months of his exile, and he successfully requested that he serve it in nearby Achinsk. [773] Several historians have seen it as appropriate to follow Lazar Kaganovich's description of there being "several Stalins" as a means of understanding his multi-faceted personality. [314] At this point, Stalin turned against the NEP, which put him on a course to the "left" even of Trotsky or Zinoviev. [148] In the hamlet, Stalin had a relationship with Lidia Pereprygina, who was fourteen at the time but within the legal age of consent in Tsarist Russia. The Constituent Assembly was declared dissolved by the Bolshevik-Left SR Soviet government, rendering the end the term served. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as MarxismLeninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism. [378] It therefore emphasised the expansion of housing space and the production of consumer goods. Born: December 8, 1878 in Gori, Georgia. [94] He attended the Fifth RSDLP Congress, held at the Brotherhood Church in London in MayJune 1907. [171], On 24 October, police raided the Bolshevik newspaper offices, smashing machinery and presses; Stalin salvaged some of this equipment to continue his activities. [591] In August 1949, the bomb was successfully tested in the deserts outside Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. [795] An autodidact,[806] he claimed to read as many as 500 pages a day,[807] with Montefiore regarding him as an intellectual. [832] Stalin was sociable and enjoyed a joke. The details of the assassination still remain a mystery, but much circumstantial evidence indicates that the head of the Soviet secret police planned Kirov's murder on orders from Stalin. [906] Historian and archival researcher Stephen G. Wheatcroft and Michael Ellman attribute roughly 3million deaths to the Stalinist regime, including executions and deaths from criminal negligence. [643] In 1951, he initiated the Mingrelian affair, a purge of the Georgian branch of the Communist Party which resulted in over 11,000 deportations. Because Stalin was not diagnosed during his life, we can never be sure. During a brief period back in Tiflis, Stalin and the Outfit planned the ambush of a mail coach, during which most of the group although not Stalin were apprehended by the authorities. [534] The Gulag system of forced labour camps was expanded further. [378] Like its predecessor, this plan was repeatedly amended to meet changing situations; there was for instance an increasing emphasis placed on armament production after Adolf Hitler became German chancellor in 1933. Video: Vladimir Lenin. [872] Stalin's necessity for Soviet Union's economic development has been questioned, and it has been argued that Stalin's policies from 1928 onwards may have only been a limiting factor. Asatar Bair, a self . [596] Stalin also tried to maximise Soviet influence on the world stage, unsuccessfully pushing for Libyarecently liberated from Italian occupationto become a Soviet protectorate. Since the end of his life there has been speculation that a mental illness contributed to Stalin's brutishness. [369] After Bukharin's departure, Stalin placed the Communist International under the administration of Dmitry Manuilsky and Osip Piatnitsky. [844] When she died, Stalin allegedly said: "This creature softened my heart of stone. [290], In late 1924, Stalin moved against Kamenev and Zinoviev, removing their supporters from key positions. [893] During Stalin's lifetime, his approved biographies were largely hagiographic in content. [261] The USSR's formation was ratified in December 1922; although officially a federal system, all major decisions were taken by the governing Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow. [285] Although Zinoviev was concerned about Stalin's growing authority, he rallied behind him at the 13th Congress as a counterweight to Trotsky, who now led a party faction known as the Left Opposition. Written in response to public revelations of the 1939 Soviet alliance with Germany, it focused on blaming Western powers for the war. [931] In this literature, Stalin's repressions are regarded either as a necessary measure to defeat "enemies of the people" or the result of lower-level officials acting without Stalin's knowledge. [939], Yevstafy Zhakov, a pastor of St. Olga Strelna near St. Petersburg, caused an uproar after he hung a portrait of Stalin among sacred images, stating: "I remember him [Stalin] on appropriate occasions, the day of his birthday, his death and that of Victory. Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the U.S.S.R. from the mid 1920s till his death in 1953. Stalin had nearly a million of his own citizens executed, beginning in the 1930s. [181] Stalin became part of an informal foursome leading the government, alongside Lenin, Trotsky, and Sverdlov;[182] of these, Sverdlov was regularly absent and died in March 1919. [386] The 1931 and 1932 harvests had been poor ones because of weather conditions[387] and had followed several years in which lower productivity had resulted in a gradual decline in output. [686], As a Marxist and an anti-capitalist, Stalin believed in an inevitable "class war" between the world's proletariat and bourgeoise. Stalin made a decision to use his power over the country to raise production. [486] The German advance on Moscow was halted after two months of battle in increasingly harsh weather conditions. [64] He made two escape attempts: On the first, he made it to Balagansk before returning due to frostbite. [756] Along with other senior figures, he had a dacha at Zubalova, 35km outside Moscow,[757] although ceased using it after Nadezhda's 1932 suicide. The question that needs to be asked is whether a mental illness can explain Stalin's ability to engage in such behavior. Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941. [657] It has been conjectured that Stalin was murdered;[658] Beria has been suspected of murdering him, but no firm evidence has ever appeared. [265] In the final years of his life, Krupskaya provided governing figures with Lenin's Testament, a series of increasingly disparaging notes about Stalin. [459] A week later, Germany invaded Poland, sparking the UK and France to declare war on Germany. addressing the closing ceremony of the chennai international book fair that began on monday, stalin said the state government has allotted rs 3 crore as translation grants and rs 6 crore for. [268] Stalin took charge of the funeral and was one of its pallbearers; against the wishes of Lenin's widow, the Politburo embalmed his corpse and placed it within a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. [196] That month, he travelled to Helsinki to talk with the Finnish Social-Democrats, granting Finland's request for independence in December. In his governance, Stalin was inspired by the ideologies of both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin and merged to two to form the Stalinism ideology, a form of socialism that . [127] Fair leadership doesn't use power to make arbitrary and . [709] Following Lenin's death, Stalin contributed to the theoretical debates within the Communist Party, namely by developing the idea of "Socialism in One Country". [663] At the funeral on 9 March, Stalins body was laid to rest in Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square; hundreds of thousands attended. [571] Post-war Soviet society was more tolerant than its pre-war phase in various respects. [820] People who knew him, such as Khrushchev, suggested he long harboured negative sentiments toward Jews,[821] and it has been argued that anti-Semitic trends in his policies were further fuelled by Stalin's struggle against Trotsky. [203], After the Bolsheviks seized power, both right and left-wing armies rallied against them, generating the Russian Civil War. [934], Some positive sentiment can also be found elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. [366] He personally met with a range of Western visitors, including George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, both of whom were impressed with him. Here are 10 facts about Joseph Stalin. [62], Stalin left Batum in October, arriving at the small Siberian town of Novaya Uda in late November 1903. [251] For Lenin, it was advantageous to have a key ally in this crucial post.[252]. [536], In February 1945, the three leaders met at the Yalta Conference. [814] When at social events, he encouraged singing,[815] as well as alcohol consumption; he hoped that others would drunkenly reveal their secrets to him. [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. [722] He also favoured classical forms in the visual arts, disliking avant-garde styles like cubism and futurism. [215] During the war, he proved his worth to the Central Committee, displaying decisiveness, determination, and willingness to take on responsibility in conflict situations. [163] This reflected his senior standing in the party at the time.[164]. [942], "Stalin" redirects here. [683] Volkogonov believed that Stalin's Marxism was shaped by his "dogmatic turn of mind", suggesting that this had been instilled in the Soviet leader during his education in religious institutions. "[590] He personally took a keen interest in the development of the weapon. [307] In 1927, there was some argument in the party over Soviet policy regarding China. [354] Nationalist sentiment among ethnic minorities was suppressed. [693] According to Sandle, Stalin was "committed to the creation of a society that was industrialised, collectivised, centrally planned and technologically advanced. [463] The two states continued trading, undermining the British blockade of Germany. In 1956, after Stalin's death, came a watershed moment: Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the Stalin personality cult and dictatorship, in a secret speech to the 20th Party Congress. [241], Stalin's native Caucasus posed a particular problem because of its highly multi-ethnic mix. [512] The Soviet victory there marked a major turning point in the war;[513] in commemoration, Stalin declared himself Marshal of the Soviet Union. [312] Many Communists, including in Komsomol, OGPU, and the Red Army, were eager to be rid of the NEP and its market-oriented approach;[313] they had concerns about those who profited from the policy: affluent peasants known as "kulaks" and small business owners or "Nepmen". 227 in July 1942, which directed that those retreating unauthorised would be placed in "penal battalions" used as cannon fodder on the front lines. [15] In 1886, they moved into the house of a family friend, Father Christopher Charkviani. C. Lenin believed that Stalin would be a fair and honest leader, so he ensured Stalin's position before he died. [224] In February 1920, he was appointed to head the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate;[225] that same month he was also transferred to the Caucasian Front. [409] Germany and Italy backed the Nationalist faction, which was ultimately victorious in March 1939. [735] Throughout his life, he used various nicknames and pseudonyms, including "Koba", "Soselo", and "Ivanov",[736] adopting "Stalin" in 1912; it was based on the Russian word for "steel" and has often been translated as "Man of Steel". [668] The Central Committee met on the day of his death, after which Malenkov, Beria, and Khrushchev emerged as the party's dominant figures. Stalin's chief ideological hatchet man, Andrey Zhdanov, a secretary of the Central Committee, began a reign of terror in the Soviet artistic and intellectual world; foreign achievements were derided, and the primacy of Russians as inventors and pioneers in practically every field was asserted. [412], Stalin often gave conflicting signals regarding state repression. By mid-1928 he was unable to rally sufficient support in the party to oppose the reforms. [531], In 1944, the Soviet Union made significant advances across Eastern Europe toward Germany,[532] including Operation Bagration, a massive offensive in the Byelorussian SSR against the German Army Group Centre. [608] There, he offered advice on their ideas; for instance he cautioned against the Yugoslav idea for a Balkan federation incorporating Bulgaria and Albania. [457] Stalin saw this as an opportunity both for territorial expansion and temporary peace with Germany. [245] In mid-1921, Stalin returned to the southern Caucasus, there calling on Georgian Communists to avoid the chauvinistic Georgian nationalism which marginalised the Abkhazian, Ossetian, and Adjarian minorities in Georgia. [754] His choice of favoured holiday house changed over the years,[755] although he holidayed in southern parts of the USSR every year from 1925 to 1936 and again from 1945 to 1951. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. [7] His parents were Besarion Jughashvili and Ekaterine Geladze. [374] [897] After the dissolution of the Union in 1991, the rest of the archives were opened to historians, resulting in much new information about Stalin coming to light,[898] and producing a flood of new research. [664] That month featured a surge in arrests for "anti-Soviet agitation," as those celebrating Stalin's death came to police attention. 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