During the Stalin reign he used his power that he attained from his socialist movement and being a political leader in Italy to promote his ideology. His ideas and policies he enforced during his time in power were known as Stalinism. During his time as a dictator he used his power to turn Italy into an industrially power country. Stalin believed his power came from the soviet; this was made up of the council and the assembly. The council and the assembly made up of about the top 1% of the country. Do to the quick change to the industrial power in the Soviet Union the food production system was compromised and a famine began. During the famine, Stalin realized the Ukraine was a good source to grow food. He forced them to grow food, which was …show more content…
391). With switching, the laws to be what the dictator wanted in that moment would keep the people more focused on trying to stay out of trouble rather than them coming up with their own ideas and values. Towards the end of Stalin's ruling during the purges he would have members of his close circle torture because he would believe they did something wrong, or something to go against the movement. This would happen often and the torture would go on for days before the person would give in and make up a story to give them what they wanted to hear. Even if they did not participate in the event they are being tortured for, they would be held until they said they did it. This was allowed and happened frequently do to no one having the power to stop it. In a fascist society, no one would stand up to the leader because of the fear of becoming executed or tortured him or herself. Stalin believed he had the right to kill during the purges or the starvation during the famine was ok because it was getting rid of the weak from their county. Not having the weak or disabled would allow their party to grow
The camps destroyed many people’s lives and affected different ethnic groups in different ways. The Gulag destroyed the Soviet society rather than improving it, when the goal was to essentially improve the society. “Lenin ordered mass terror against wealthy kulak peasants, White Guards, and members of the clergy who would be sent to remote concentration camps which resulted in the birth of the Gulag”. The Gulag is a system of
Stalin did not tolerate anyone who opposed him, and this is where his cruel methods come into play. He utilized a harsh forced famine in Ukraine, with 4.5 to 7 million victimes. “Stalin used the forced famine as part of a political strategy..” to oppress his people. Another cruel method of his were public trials of his “great purges”, purging anyone opposing him. In these trials, “[defendants] confessed...to a number of crimes.
From 1928, when the plan started, to 1932 to its end, many factories, dams, power stations and even cities were being built. Despite there being harsh penalties implemented to workers for failure to meet their targets, there was still a significant increase in Russia’s industrial growth in a very short period of time. Just like the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, under Tsar Alexander II, in protest of Stalin’s policies, the peasants, in protest, refused to work harder than they needed too, causing them to destroy livestock and crops, which eventually lead to their unnecessary death. Stalin, just like the Tsarist autocratic regime, was not committed to collectivism but preferred capitalism in his ruling of the Soviet Union. This caused a lot of rebellion from the Kulaks who opposed collectivism.
The genocide that Stalin inflicted on the Ukrainians began in 1929 with massive deportations of the most successful farmers of Ukraine. All farmers were forced to give up their land to the government. These farms would then be state owned and factory ran. If farmers and families would refuse to leave their homes, they would be drug out of their houses and forced onto freight trains that would then take them to remote areas. To add on, the Soviet Union sharply increased Ukraine 's’ production quotas, to make it near impossible to fill, which eventually led to the widespread starvation all across Ukraine.
According to Doc. 4, the USSR produced 35.4 million tons of coal, 11.7 million tons of oil, 3.3 million tons of iron, and 4 million tons of steel in 1927. With Stalin in office, these numbers increased greatly in 1932. According to the Background Doc., “Stalin implemented collectivization which combined all of the agricultural farms into large state-owned farms and forced the peasants to work on them,
Anyone who refused to cooperate were either shot or exiled as punishment. Millions of farmers were killed (“Joseph Stalin.”) and this farming method wasn’t able to produce enough food leading to famine which results in millions of other deaths across the Soviet Union (“Joseph Stalin –
This caused a famine to take place and many more people died. Some people even turned to cannibalism in order to survive. (Document Three) Stalin didn’t care about any of this as long as his plans went
Stalin came into power by using Lenin, who was the previous ruler of Russia. Stalin photoshopped an image to make them appear closer to make it seem like he was Lenin's successor. Mao came into power by using the Chinese revolution. The strategies that are the most effective at helping dictators gain and maintain power are propaganda, persecution, and industrialization.
Post WWl, Russia was still not industrialized, suffering economically and politically and in no doubt in need of a leader after Lenin’s death. “His successor, Joseph Stalin, a ruthless dictator, seized power and turned Russia into a totalitarian state where the government controls all aspects of private and public life.” Stalin showed these traits by using methods of enforcement, state control of individuals and state control of society. The journey of Stalin begins now.
1 single political party- Stalin uses forms of terrorism like the purges, show trials and the terror to instil a doctrine of conformity and coercion of some of the members in his party. He executes his past allies that were previously heroes of the bolshevik revolution in Russia like Kamenev, Zinoviev. Additionally, he also takes control of the bureaucracy stemming from being the general secretary and uses this position to create a system of political patronage amongst his members. This all gets formalised in the 1936 constitution as his ideologies become legally binding across Russia, Lenin set precedents for Stalin's controls.
Joseph Stalin established the five-year plans which improved transportation, built heavy industry and increased farm output. Document 6 shows that Cubans had a list of 32 things they weren’t allowed to do. Some of them included sending children to a private or religious school, watching independent or private radio or TV stations, and even selling home-grown food products without government approval. Document 7 tells us about a man who was arrested for resisting the police. The announcement says, “for resisting the police on Monday, January 19, 1942, Dr. Ulrich Georg Israel Schultz was lawfully shot by the police” (Document 7).
He abused the influence that propaganda had, which caused him to gain his position in power and many faithful followers. Mussolini used the fear of a revolution, national glory, suffrage, land for peasants, improvement of workers to his advantage. Despite his various attempts, he failed to win a seat in the election in 1919. Towards the end of 1920 Italy took Mussolini as their leader. A majority of the property class wanted a strong government who could restore power to Italy and fix the economy, which Mussolini promised to do.
Also, the creation of many factories created more towns causing the food shortage to worsen. To solve this problem Stalin introduced collectivisation. He took control of all of the farms and redistributed the food to all of the people. This allowed the population to grow which then increased the workforce.
In order for Stalin to uphold his fierce authoritative role strikers were shot and slow workers
Finally it is evident that Stalin and Hitler had similar techniques in regards to the use of propaganda and indoctrination, as well as the use of terror to maintain power. The only differences were each leader’s goal for their respective