[416] State repression intensified after Kirov's death;[417] Stalin instigated this, reflecting his prioritisation of security above other considerations. [872] Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition and medical care[873] as mortality rates also declined. [922] In recent years, the government and general public of Russia has been accused of rehabilitating Stalin. [665] The Chinese government instituted a period of official mourning for Stalin's death. [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. Bolshevik leaders appointed themselves to many high offices and started implementing communist practices based on Marx's ideology. [227] On 26 May, Stalin was moved to Ukraine, on the Southwest Front. About half were then imprisoned in labour camps. [262] Lenin accused Stalin of "Great Russian chauvinism"; Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism". Though Hitler and Stalin never met or even spoke on the telephone, their lives and fates were inextricably linked. [307] Here, he argued for the concept of "Socialism in One Country", which he presented as an orthodox Leninist perspective. He was captured by the German Army and then committed suicide. He had to share power with a collection of other Soviet leaders, including Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. [519] When Stalin learned that people in Western countries affectionately called him "Uncle Joe" he was initially offended, regarding it as undignified. The Truth Stalin suffered a major stroke on March 1, 1953, but treatment was delayed from reaching him as a direct result of his actions over the previous decades. [842], Stalin married his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, in 1906. [343] The last elements of workers' control over industry were removed, with factory managers increasing their authority and receiving privileges and perks;[344] Stalin defended wage disparity by pointing to Marx's argument that it was necessary during the lower stages of socialism. [676] A mass amnesty for certain categories of convicts was issued, halving the country's inmate population, while the state security and Gulag systems were reformed, with torture being banned in April 1953. U.S. led forces pushed the North Koreans back. [41] At night, he attended secret workers' meetings[42] and was introduced to Silibistro "Silva" Jibladze, the Marxist founder of Mesame Dasi ("Third Group"), a Georgian socialist group. [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. 03:28. Instead, the KMT repressed the Communists and a civil war broke out between the two sides.[308]. [804] Little of this was fiction,[805] although he could cite passages from Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Walt Whitman by heart. It sought to provide a guide to leading the country after his death. [648] There, he emphasised what he regarded as leadership qualities necessary in the future and highlighted the weaknesses of various potential successors, particularly Molotov and Mikoyan. [557] His armies controlled Central and Eastern Europe up to the River Elbe. Died: 5 March 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha near Moscow, Russia. [ 2] Without providing a clear successor, he left the party in chaos and the in-fighting and division . Widely considered to be one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Stalin was the subject of a pervasive personality cult within the international MarxistLeninist movement, which revered him as a champion of the working class and socialism. [146] In August, he arrived in the village of Monastyrskoe, although after four weeks was relocated to the hamlet of Kostino. Stalin presided over the Soviet post-war reconstruction and its development of an atomic bomb in 1949. [391] Stalin would not acknowledge that his policies had contributed to the famine,[380] the existence of which was kept secret from foreign observers. [260], They also disagreed on the nature of the Soviet state. [799] He enjoyed listening to classical music,[800] owning around 2,700 records,[801] and frequently attending the Bolshoi Theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. [883] According to Kotkin, Stalin "built a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship. [849] It is unclear if Stalin ever had a mistress during or after his marriage to Alliluyeva. [787] He was capable of self-righteous indignation,[788] and was resentful,[789] and vindictive,[790] holding on to grudges for many years. [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. [91], Stalin married Kato Svanidze in an Orthodox church ceremony at Senaki in July 1906. [853] Conversely, Stalin had an affectionate relationship with Svetlana during her childhood,[854] and was also very fond of Artyom. [847], Stalin's second wife was Nadezhda Alliluyeva; theirs was not an easy relationship, and they often fought. [346] His speeches and articles reflected his utopian vision of the Soviet Union rising to unparalleled heights of human development, creating a "new Soviet person". [395] He declared that "socialism, which is the first phase of communism, has basically been achieved in this country". [542] Many Soviet soldiers engaged in looting, pillaging, and rape, both in Germany and parts of Eastern Europe. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (19221952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (19411953). Eight years have passed since the last elections to the Supreme Soviet. [567], The NKVD were ordered to catalogue the scale of destruction during the war. [219], The Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war by the end of 1919. [612], Stalin suggested that a unified, but demilitarised, German state be established, hoping that it would either come under Soviet influence or remain neutral. In 1961, just eight years later, the Soviet government ordered Stalin's remains removed from the tomb. [258] Lenin and Stalin argued on the issue of foreign trade; Lenin believed that the Soviet state should have a monopoly on foreign trade, but Stalin supported Grigori Sokolnikov's view that doing so was impractical at that stage. [460] On 17 September, the Red Army entered eastern Poland, officially to restore order amid the collapse of the Polish state. [534] The Gulag system of forced labour camps was expanded further. [562] He was quoted in Pravda on a daily basis and pictures of him remained pervasive on the walls of workplaces and homes. He officially ruled the country from 1924-1953. [108] There he led the imprisoned Bolsheviks, organised discussion groups, and ordered the killing of suspected informants. [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. [844] When she died, Stalin allegedly said: "This creature softened my heart of stone. [750] He often dined with other Politburo members and their families. [304] His growing influence was reflected in naming of various locations after him; in June 1924 the Ukrainian mining town of Yuzovka became Stalino,[305] and in April 1925, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad on the order of Mikhail Kalinin and Avel Enukidze. [644], From 1946 until his death, Stalin only gave three public speeches, two of which lasted only a few minutes. [263] A compromise was reached, in which the federation would be renamed the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (USSR). [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. [579] In 1949, he brought Nikita Khrushchev from Ukraine to Moscow, appointing him a Central Committee secretary and the head of the city's party branch. [617] Across Eastern Europe, the Soviet model was enforced, with a termination of political pluralism, agricultural collectivisation, and investment in heavy industry. [611] Stalin ordered several assassination attempts on Tito's life and contemplated invading Yugoslavia. [12] Besarion became an alcoholic[13] and drunkenly beat his wife and son. [246] On this trip, Stalin met with his son Yakov, and brought him back to Moscow;[247] Nadezhda had given birth to another of Stalin's sons, Vasily, in March 1921. [530] Discussing the fate of the Balkans, later in 1944 Churchill agreed to Stalin's suggestion that after the war, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia would come under the Soviet sphere of influence while Greece would come under that of the West. Firstly, the divisions within the party, made his task of eliminating people less complicated, he only had individuals, not groups of people against him. The Russian Empire became a de facto republic, headed by a Provisional Government dominated by liberals. [301] Other important supporters on the Politburo were Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze,[302] with Stalin ensuring his allies ran the various state institutions. [87] In April 1906, Stalin attended the RSDLP Fourth Congress in Stockholm; this was his first trip outside the Russian Empire. [763] This gained widespread acceptance outside the Soviet Union during his lifetime but was misleading. [177] According to the historian Oleg Khlevniuk, Stalin "filled an important role [in the October Revolution] as a senior Bolshevik, member of the party's Central Committee, and editor of its main newspaper";[178] the historian Stephen Kotkin similarly noted that Stalin had been "in the thick of events" in the build-up to the coup. [585] While agricultural production stagnated, Stalin focused on a series of major infrastructure projects, including the construction of hydroelectric plants, canals, and railway lines running to the polar north. [603] [347], In 1928, Stalin declared that class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify as socialism developed. the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. [510] In December 1942, he placed Konstantin Rokossovski in charge of holding the city. Fairness is based on someone's cultural background, religious affiliation, cognitive biases/dissonance and prejudices, promotes healthy workplace culture. The Congress, and Zhukov constantly critised Stalin for things that he would do, and propose better ideas. Stalin, for the most part, was a successful leader. [782], Stalin was ruthless,[783] temperamentally cruel,[784] and had a propensity for violence high even among the Bolsheviks. Though each loathed and feared the other, there was much Hitler and Stalin had in common. [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. [17] In September 1888, Stalin enrolled at the Orthodox Gori Church School,[18] a place secured by Charkviani. 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. Copy. [606] In September 1947, a meeting of East European communist leaders was held in Szklarska Porba, Poland, from which was formed Cominform to co-ordinate the Communist Parties across Eastern Europe and also in France and Italy. Joseph Stalin epitomised the 'New Prince', who Machiavelli described, somehow unifying love and fear whilst simultaneously pursuing his ambitious political plan for Russia. [211] His use of state violence and terror was at a greater scale than most Bolshevik leaders approved of;[212] for instance, he ordered several villages to be torched to ensure compliance with his food procurement program. [44], In October 1899, Stalin began work as a meteorologist at the Tiflis observatory. He edited the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets. [573] Recognising the need for drastic steps to be taken to combat inflation and promote economic regeneration, in December 1947 Stalin's government devalued the rouble and abolished the ration-book system. 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[359] Socialist realism was promoted throughout arts,[360] while Stalin personally wooed prominent writers, namely Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 00447, listing 268,950 people for arrest, of whom 75,950 were executed. [50] Remaining underground, he helped plan a demonstration for May Day 1901, in which 3,000 marchers clashed with the authorities. Around 40 people were killed, but all of his gang escaped alive. [731] Described as a poor orator,[732] according to Volkogonov, Stalin's speaking style was "simple and clear, without flights of fancy, catchy phrases or platform histrionics". [412], Stalin often gave conflicting signals regarding state repression. D. Stalin suppressed Lenin's wishes that Stalin NOT follow him as leader of the Soviet Union, fearing Stalin's approach to power. [203], After the Bolsheviks seized power, both right and left-wing armies rallied against them, generating the Russian Civil War. This article reassesses Stalin's attempts to construct legitimacy through the development of a 'cult of personality', built through an overt co-option of the charismatic authority generated by Lenin's revolutionary leadership. [432], During the 1930s and 1940s, NKVD groups assassinated defectors and opponents abroad;[433] in August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, eliminating the last of Stalin's opponents among the former Party leadership. Conversely, his regime has been described as totalitarian, and has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repression, ethnic cleansing, wide-scale deportation, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines that killed millions. [341] New mines were opened, new cities like Magnitogorsk constructed, and work on the White Sea-Baltic Canal began. "[546], With Germany defeated, Stalin switched focus to the war with Japan, transferring half a million troops to the Far East. "[841] Stalin married twice and had several children. [691] As a propaganda tool, the shaming of "enemies" explained all inadequate economic and political outcomes, the hardships endured by the populace, and military failures. [640] He instructed the arrested doctors to be tortured to ensure confession. [298] Some of those United Opposition members who were repentant were later rehabilitated and returned to government. [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. [190] Unlike senior Bolsheviks like Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin never expressed concern about the rapid growth and expansion of the Cheka and Red Terror. [341] Large debts were accrued purchasing foreign-made machinery. The widely covered 1943 Tehran summit saw Allied leaders Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill assemble for the first time. [516] By the end of 1943, the Soviets occupied half of the territory taken by the Germans from 1941 to 1942. [743] From mid-1918 until his death he favoured military-style clothing, in particular long black boots, light-coloured collarless tunics, and a gun. [436] Party functionaries readily carried out their commands and sought to ingratiate themselves with Stalin to avoid becoming the victim of the purge. [942], "Stalin" redirects here. [710] He first developed the idea in December 1924 and elaborated upon in his writings of 192526. By mid-1928 he was unable to rally sufficient support in the party to oppose the reforms. [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. [941] Nonetheless, some churches have kept religious icons showing Stalin at least since 2008. [187] He co-signed Lenin's decrees shutting down hostile newspapers,[188] and along with Sverdlov, he chaired the sessions of the committee drafting a constitution for the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. [591] In August 1949, the bomb was successfully tested in the deserts outside Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. [818], Stalin publicly condemned anti-Semitism,[819] although he was repeatedly accused of it. [97] There, Mensheviks confronted Stalin about the robbery and voted to expel him from the RSDLP, but he took no notice of them. [808] Lenin was his favourite author but he also read, and sometimes appreciated, a great deal of writing by Leon Trotsky and other arch-enemies. [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. [144], In February 1913, Stalin was arrested while back in Saint Petersburg. [611], In October 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong took power in China. [306], In 1926, Stalin published On Questions of Leninism. [281], In the wake of Lenin's death, various protagonists emerged in the struggle to become his successor: alongside Stalin was Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, and Mikhail Tomsky. [83], In November 1905, the Georgian Bolsheviks elected Stalin as one of their delegates to a Bolshevik conference in Saint Petersburg. He was in bed. [249] Stalin also agreed to supervise the Department of Agitation and Propaganda in the Central Committee Secretariat. [542], In April 1945, the Red Army seized Berlin, Hitler committed suicide, and Germany surrendered in May. "[838] Montefiore described Stalin's favoured types as "young, malleable teenagers or buxom peasant women,"[839] who would be supportive and unchallenging toward him. Updated on September 12, 2019 After his death in 1953, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's remains were embalmed and put on display next to those of Vladimir Lenin. [522] Churchill flew to Moscow to visit Stalin in August 1942 and again in October 1944. [376], Within the Soviet Union, there was widespread civic disgruntlement against Stalin's government. [273], As General Secretary, Stalin had a free hand in making appointments to his own staff, implanting his loyalists throughout the party and administration. [311] Stalin's government feared attack from Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Romania. [533] In 1944, the German armies were pushed out of the Baltic states (with the exception of the Ostland), which were then re-annexed into the Soviet Union. The first four years were years of intense labor on the part of Soviet people in carrying out the Third Five-Year Plan. [893] During Stalin's lifetime, his approved biographies were largely hagiographic in content. [795] Like all Bolshevik leaders, Stalin believed that reading could help transform not just people's ideas and consciousness, but human nature itself. Check out our stalin leader selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. [418] By the latter part of 1937, the purges had moved beyond the party and were affecting the wider population. [341] Millions of peasants moved to the cities, although urban house building could not keep up with the demand. [466] Embarrassed by their inability to defeat the Finns, the Soviets signed an interim peace treaty, in which they received territorial concessions from Finland. In this he recalled the 1825 Decembrist Revolt by Russian soldiers returning from having defeated France in the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the photos may be from earlier dates, but it is believed that this photo of Stalin was taken in 1893. [855] After the Second World War, he made little time for his children and his family played a decreasingly important role in his life. [609] In March 1948, Stalin launched an anti-Tito campaign, accusing the Yugoslav communists of adventurism and deviating from MarxistLeninist doctrine. [525], In November 1943, Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt in Tehran, a location of Stalin's choosing. [238], The Soviet government sought to bring neighbouring states under its domination; in February 1921 it invaded the Menshevik-governed Georgia,[239] while in April 1921, Stalin ordered the Red Army into Turkestan to reassert Russian state control. [487], Going against the advice of Zhukov and other generals, Stalin emphasised attack over defence. [850] In any event, she suspected that he was unfaithful with other women,[851] and committed suicide in 1932. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and. [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. [592] Stalin also initiated a new military build-up; the Soviet army was expanded from 2.9million soldiers, as it stood in 1949, to 5.8million by 1953. [431] During these years, approximately 1.6million people were arrested,[432] 700,000 were shot, and an unknown number died under NKVD torture. [326] Although officially voluntary, many peasants joined the collectives out of fear they would face the fate of the kulaks; others joined amid intimidation and violence from party loyalists. [639] Stalin nevertheless mistrusted his doctors; in January 1952 he had one imprisoned after they suggested that he should retire to improve his health. [764] According to biographer Montefiore, "it is clear from hostile and friendly witnesses alike that Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood". [43] Stalin left the seminary in April 1899 and never returned. [264], Their differences also became personal; Lenin was particularly angered when Stalin was rude to his wife Krupskaya during a telephone conversation. [655] According to Svetlana, it had been "a difficult and terrible death". [84] On arrival, he met Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, who informed him that the venue had been moved to Tampere in the Grand Duchy of Finland. [572] Academia and the arts were also allowed greater freedom than they had prior to 1941. [626] Stalin wanted to avoid direct Soviet conflict with the U.S., convincing the Chinese to aid the North. [608] Stalin had a particularly strained relationship with Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito due to the latter's continued calls for Balkan federation and for Soviet aid for the communist forces in the ongoing Greek Civil War. [394], In 193536, Stalin oversaw a new constitution; its dramatic liberal features were designed as propaganda weapons, for all power rested in the hands of Stalin and his Politburo. [770] According to Volkogonov, "Stalin's private life and working life were one and the same"; he did not take days off from political activities. [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. He did. Since the 1920s, he'd ruled with an iron fist. 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