Stalin, Joseph

One major benefit of Stalin's rule was the Soviet Union's survival during WWII. The Soviet Union brought the Nazi blitzkrieg to a halt, even though many of the West's military experts thought the...

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Although he had succeeded in establishing communist governments in all of Eastern Europe, he wanted to increase his control over...

In his distinct and unique style, Stalin makes the argument that each moment that is slow and not responsive to the demands of a fast pace puts the Soviet Union behind in terms of world...

I think that Stalin was successful in his centralization of power because he simply removed those who were seen as impediments to his power. Stalin was fairly direct in his ideas that when Lenin...

Trotsky and Stalin found themselves on very different sides of important debates in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and the death of Lenin. Trotsky argued for a departure of Lenin's New...

Stalin, rather than Trotsky, succeeded Lenin because Stalin was the more adept politician and Stalin was better at doing the little things that allowed him to gather power to himself. Trotsky...

1). Stalin used his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to take control after Lenin's death and cement his power thereafter. Stalin was a very efficient...

The first factor that allowed Stalin to win was his prowess at building a network of supporters beneath him in the party apparatus. Stalin’s most important post for this purpose was the post of...

In his speech on Soviet Industrialization, Stalin made it very clear that the foreign policy that it must pursue sets itself up against the Western capitalist nations that have to be seen as a...