[723] He also favoured classical forms in the visual arts, disliking avant-garde styles like cubism and futurism. Wiki User. [587] Tensions among these former Allies grew,[557] resulting in the Cold War. [158] Stalin was in the city when the February Revolution took place; uprisings broke out in Petrograd as Saint Petersburg had been renamed and Tsar Nicholas II abdicated to escape being violently overthrown. [299], Stalin was now the party's supreme leader,[300] although he was not the head of government, a task he entrusted to his key ally Vyacheslav Molotov. [307] In 1927, there was some argument in the party over Soviet policy regarding China. [542] Many Soviet soldiers engaged in looting, pillaging, and rape, both in Germany and parts of Eastern Europe. [265] In the final years of his life, Krupskaya provided governing figures with Lenin's Testament, a series of increasingly disparaging notes about Stalin. [44], In October 1899, Stalin began work as a meteorologist at the Tiflis observatory. In 1922, Stalin was given the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party. [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. [440] He was particularly concerned at the success that right-wing forces had in overthrowing the leftist Spanish government,[441] fearing a domestic fifth column in the event of future war with Japan and Germany. [661] His body was embalmed,[662] and then placed on display in Moscow's House of Unions for three days. [685] According to scholar Robert Service, Stalin's "few innovations in ideology were crude, dubious developments of Marxism". [599] Within Western countries, Stalin was increasingly portrayed as the "most evil dictator alive" and compared to Hitler. "[590] He personally took a keen interest in the development of the weapon. [216] When the Red Third Regiment defected, he ordered the public execution of captured defectors. [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. [893], Leninists remain divided in their views on Stalin; some view him as Lenin's authentic successor, while others believe he betrayed Lenin's ideas by deviating from them. [173] Bolshevik militia seized Petrograd's electric power station, main post office, state bank, telephone exchange, and several bridges. [130] In late 1912, Stalin twice crossed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire to visit Lenin in Cracow,[131] eventually bowing to Lenin's opposition to reunification with the Mensheviks. 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[260], They also disagreed on the nature of the Soviet state. Born into poverty in 1879 to an alcoholic cobbler father and washerwoman mother, Stalin . In 1939, his regime signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, resulting in the Soviet invasion of Poland. [284] While Lenin had been ill Stalin had forged an anti-Trotsky alliance with Kamenev and Zinoviev. [800] He enjoyed listening to classical music,[801] owning around 2,700 records,[802] and frequently attending the Bolshoi Theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. [65] His second attempt, in January 1904, was successful and he made it to Tiflis. [251] For Lenin, it was advantageous to have a key ally in this crucial post.[252]. Bela Kun, in Pravda 1918. "[935][936] In early 2010, a new monument to Stalin was erected in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. [33] The seminary's journal noted that he declared himself an atheist, stalked out of prayers and refused to doff his hat to monks. [356], Stalin desired a "cultural revolution",[357] entailing both creation of a culture for the "masses" and wider dissemination of previously elite culture. [399] By 1938, Stalin's inner circle had gained a degree of stability, containing the personalities who would remain there until Stalin's death. [62], Stalin left Batum in October, arriving at the small Siberian town of Novaya Uda in late November 1903. [751] He often dined with other Politburo members and their families. [12] Besarion became an alcoholic[13] and drunkenly beat his wife and son. [205] Eager to prove himself as a commander,[206] once there he took control of regional military operations. The couple had a son, Iosif, in 1945, but Svetlana did not want to become a housewife: she subsequently had 3 abortions and divorced Morozov 2 years later. [679] Some of these derived from political expediency rather than any sincere intellectual commitment;[679] Stalin would often turn to ideology post hoc to justify his decisions. [143] Stalin retained the name for the rest of his life, possibly because it was used on the article that established his reputation among the Bolsheviks. [861] Montefiore also claimed that Stalin had at least two illegitimate children,[862] although he never recognised them as being his. And what is so awful in his having fun with a woman, after such horrors? [36] Another influential text was Alexander Kazbegi's The Patricide, with Stalin adopting the nickname "Koba" from that of the book's bandit protagonist. [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. [895] Since his death many more biographies have been written,[896] although until the 1980s these relied largely on the same sources of information. [569] The NKVD recorded that between 26 and 27 million Soviet citizens had been killed, with millions more being wounded, malnourished, or orphaned. [430] He also initiated "national operations", the ethnic cleansing of non-Soviet ethnic groupsamong them Poles, Germans, Latvians, Finns, Greeks, Koreans, and Chinesethrough internal or external exile. [507] While Red Army generals saw evidence that Hitler would shift efforts south, Stalin considered this to be a flanking move in a renewed effort to take Moscow. [172] In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup the October Revolution was directed. [217] He was reprimanded by Lenin at the 8th Party Congress for employing tactics which resulted in far too many deaths of Red Army soldiers. [778] He acknowledged that he could be rude and insulting,[779] but he rarely raised his voice in anger;[780] as his health deteriorated in later life he became increasingly unpredictable and bad-tempered. Many millions died as the result of Japanese war crimes during World War II under Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito.. [413] In May 1933, he released from prison many convicted of minor offences, ordering the security services not to enact further mass arrests and deportations. [748], As leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin typically awoke around 11am,[749] with lunch being served between 3 and 5pm and dinner no earlier than 9pm;[750] he then worked late into the evening. [236] Lenin joined Trotsky in criticising him, and nobody spoke on his behalf at the conference. [291] In 1925, the two moved into open opposition to Stalin and Bukharin. [477] Despite intelligence agencies repeatedly warning him of Germany's intentions, Stalin was taken by surprise. [94] He attended the Fifth RSDLP Congress, held at the Brotherhood Church in London in MayJune 1907. [799] He protected several Soviet writers from arrest and prosecution, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime. It can, therefore, be expected to have had a major influence on his . [734] He rarely spoke before large audiences, and preferred to express himself in written form. [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. [240] As People's Commissar for Nationalities, Stalin believed that each national and ethnic group should have the right to self-expression,[241] facilitated through "autonomous republics" within the Russian state in which they could oversee various regional affairs. [509] This resulted in the protracted Battle of Stalingrad. [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. [721] In private he often used coarse language and profanity, although avoided doing so in public. 1922. [196] His department allocated funds for establishment of presses and schools in the languages of various ethnic minorities. [368], Stalin faced problems in his family life. [870] Service suggested that the country might have collapsed long before 1991 without Stalin. [204] To secure access to the dwindling food supply, in May 1918 Sovnarkom sent Stalin to Tsaritsyn to take charge of food procurement in southern Russia. [766] According to historian Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin wasn't a psychopath. [293] Stalin in turn accused Kamenev and Zinoviev of reintroducing factionalism and thus instability into the party. [639] In September 1952, several Kremlin doctors were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill senior politicians in what came to be known as the Doctors' Plot; the majority of the accused were Jewish. How many years did Joseph Stalin rule in Russia? [3] He was born on 18 December[O.S. He was captured by the German Army and then committed suicide. [772], Stalin could play different roles to different audiences,[773] and was adept at deception, often deceiving others as to his true motives and aims. He was faced with the problem that there were few Marxists left in Eastern Europe, with most having been killed by the Nazis. [904] In addition, while archival data shows that 1,053,829 perished in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953,[905] the current historical consensus is that of the 18million people who passed through the Gulag system from 1930 to 1953, between 1.5 and 1.7million died as a result of their incarceration. [604] [233] Stalin felt humiliated and under-appreciated; on 17 August, he demanded demission from the military, which was granted on 1 September. Lenin's Testament, 4 January 1923;[253] this was possibly composed by Krupskaya rather than Lenin himself. MZbee. Joseph Stalin Russia- what were conditions before took power. [499] They achieved high levels of industrial productivity, outstripping that of Germany. It is this point that makes the historiography of the USSRa subject worthy of deep study in itselfso . [52] In November 1901, he was elected to the Tiflis Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a Marxist party founded in 1898. [39] Stalin devoted himself to Marx's socio-political theory, Marxism,[40] which was then on the rise in Georgia, one of various forms of socialism opposed to the empire's governing tsarist authorities. [136] The article was published under the pseudonym "K. Stalin",[139] a name he had used since 1912. Around 40 people were killed, but all of his gang escaped alive. [362] The government's anti-religious campaign was re-intensified,[363] with increased funding given to the League of Militant Atheists. [723] It has been argued that his ancestry was Ossetian, because his genetic haplotype (G2a-Z6653) is considered typical of the Ossetians, but he never acknowledged an Ossetian identity. [869], Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union. [389] Stalin blamed the famine on hostile elements and sabotage within the peasantry;[390] his government provided small amounts of food to famine-struck rural areas, although this was wholly insufficient to deal with the levels of starvation. [274] Favouring new Communist Party members from proletarian backgrounds, to the "Old Bolsheviks" who tended to be middle class university graduates,[275] he ensured he had loyalists dispersed across the country's regions. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 18 December [ O.S. [646] In 1950, Stalin issued the article "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics", which reflected his interest in questions of Russian nationhood. [241], Stalin's native Caucasus posed a particular problem because of its highly multi-ethnic mix. [892], A vast literature devoted to Stalin has been produced. [203], After the Bolsheviks seized power, both right and left-wing armies rallied against them, generating the Russian Civil War. [43] Stalin left the seminary in April 1899 and never returned. [311] Stalin's government feared attack from Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Romania. [436] Party functionaries readily carried out their commands and sought to ingratiate themselves with Stalin to avoid becoming the victim of the purge. [472] He increasingly focused on appeasement with the Germans to delay any conflict with them. Stalin died a few months before the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. [717] Stalin argued that the Jews possessed a "national character" but were not a "nation" and were thus unassimilable. [612] It was aimed at establishing economic autarky within the Eastern Bloc. [425] There were mass expulsions from the party,[426] with Stalin commanding foreign communist parties to also purge anti-Stalinist elements. Repeatedly arrested, he underwent several internal exiles to Siberia. [832] He gave nicknames to his favourites, for instance referring to Yezhov as "my blackberry". Smallpox as a child left him with lasting scars and a deformity. [232] In Moscow, Lenin and Trotsky blamed him for his behaviour in the PolishSoviet war. [650] In 1952, he also eliminated the Politburo and replaced it with a larger version which he called the Presidium. [881] Montefiore argued that while Stalin initially ruled as part of a Communist Party oligarchy, the Soviet government transformed from this oligarchy into a personal dictatorship in 1934,[882] with Stalin only becoming "absolute dictator" between March and June 1937, when senior military and NKVD figures were eliminated. I stand on the ground of the latter". He is also a full member of the Politburo. [732] Described as a poor orator,[733] according to Volkogonov, Stalin's speaking style was "simple and clear, without flights of fancy, catchy phrases or platform histrionics". [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. [78] Stalin's squads disarmed local police and troops,[79] raided government arsenals,[80] and raised funds through protection rackets on large local businesses and mines. [835] 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. [764] This gained widespread acceptance outside the Soviet Union during his lifetime but was misleading. [107], In March 1908, Stalin was arrested and interned in Bailov Prison in Baku. [422] The second Moscow Show Trial took place in January 1937,[423] and the third in March 1938, in which Bukharin and Rykov were accused of involvement in the alleged Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist plot and sentenced to death. Stalin is also considered one of the most dangerous totalitarian leaders in history, his violent excesses often compared to those of Adolf Hitler. [30] According to Stalin's biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, they became "minor Georgian classics"[31] and were included in various anthologies of Georgian poetry over the coming years. [16] Ekaterine worked as a house cleaner and launderer and was determined to send her son to school. [690] He also believed that this proletarian state would need to introduce repressive measures against foreign and domestic "enemies" to ensure the full crushing of the propertied classes,[691] and thus the class war would intensify with the advance of socialism. [475] Although de facto head of government for a decade and a half, Stalin concluded that relations with Germany had deteriorated to such an extent that he needed to deal with the problem as de jure head of government as well: on 6 May, Stalin replaced Molotov as Premier of the Soviet Union. [557] Aware that these countries had been pushed toward socialism through invasion rather than by proletarian revolution, Stalin referred to them not as "dictatorships of the proletariat" but as "people's democracies", suggesting that in these countries there was a pro-socialist alliance combining the proletariat, peasantry, and lower middle-class. [543] Stalin had wanted Hitler captured alive; he had his remains brought to Moscow to prevent them becoming a relic for Nazi sympathisers. Rosa Luxemburg, 1918-1919. Plans were made for the Soviet government to evacuate to Kuibyshev, although Stalin decided to remain in Moscow, believing his flight would damage troop morale. [202] The governing RSDLP party was soon renamed, becoming the Russian Communist Party. [517] Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the east of the front, safe from German invasion and aerial assault. [442] The Great Terror ended when Yezhov was removed as the head of the NKVD, to be replaced by Lavrentiy Beria,[443] a man totally devoted to Stalin. [151][152], In Kureika, Stalin lived among the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak peoples,[153] and spent much of his time fishing. Notes from the 1957 Pravda publication: Below are published notes dictated by V. I. Lenin, December, 1922-January, 1923, including the "Letter to the Congress," known as the "Testament"; the letter "On Conferring Legislative Functions Upon . [438], Stalin initiated all key decisions during the Terror, personally directing many of its operations and taking an interest in their implementation. [645], From 1946 until his death, Stalin only gave three public speeches, two of which lasted only a few minutes. [638], In his later years, Stalin was in poor health. [481] The German tactic of blitzkrieg was initially highly effective; the Soviet air force in the western borderlands was destroyed within two days. [676] The doctors who had been imprisoned were released and the anti-Semitic purges ceased. [557] His armies controlled Central and Eastern Europe up to the River Elbe. [271] During the 13th Party Congress in May 1924, "Lenin's Testament" was read only to the leaders of the provincial delegations. [330] Famine broke out in many areas,[331] with the Politburo frequently ordering distribution of emergency food relief to these regions. [612] Stalin ordered several assassination attempts on Tito's life and contemplated invading Yugoslavia. [76] He publicly lambasted the "pogroms against Jews and Armenians" as being part of Tsar Nicholas II's attempts to "buttress his despicable throne". 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