Stalin did more harm than good to Russia

The role of Joseph Stalin in the history of post- revolutionist Russia is remarkable as easy as the history of the USSR itself. Stalin is associated with bulky purges, repressions, victory all over the bloodiest regime in the WWII, mass deportations and the executions. Stalins name is also associated with the huge industrial chew up of the USSR at the pre-WWII period, forcible collectivization of peasants and relocation of hund rosys of thousands of commonwealth. He is also trusty for the bloodiest repression system kn avouch as Gulag and suppression of any manifestations of oppositions.The roots of the red terror in Russia go back to the attempt of assassination of Lenin in 1918. The thesis of class struggle became the dominating peerless and the ideology of the pertly established state was programmed for the violence. This thesis corre recentlyd with the general course of the red inks propaganda of the global revolution and establishing the commie rule glob on the wholey as the final aim. Joseph Stalin, a student of the Orthodox seminary in Georgia was grasped with the topics of Karl Marx and get together the students in their protests against tsar.Stalin joined the radical organizations attempting to protest against authorities, was arrested by police and exiled to Siberia. Stalin get away in Siberia several times, made fri suppresss with Lenin and became growing in the hierarchy of the commie Party. After the revolution of 1917 he took the leading posts in the Communist Party. He took on the roles of political commissar for the Red Army during the civil warfarefare, and was the editor in chief of Pravda translated as truth, In these capacities, Stalin was able to become a powerful account within the party, but he did make enemies.One of them was another key revolutionary figure, a man named Leon Trotsky. By 1922, Stalin was powerful enough to take on the role of General Secretary of the Communist Party. 1 After the end of the Civil War the Bols heviks started to re-evaluate the political course. There were several groups advocating various slipway of the future development. Before his oddment in 1924 Lenin warned his colleagues on the rudeness of Stalin and Stalin opponents try to get the chance to back him from the power.Stalin pre directed an argument that Lenin before his death was disconsolate and all his warnings should not have been taken seriously. Ideologically Stalin in rail line to Trotsky advocated an idea of building the socialism in the particular taken country. It contradicted the idea of the global proletarian revolution supported by Trotsky and his followers. Before his death Lenin introduced NEP, the new economic policy based on the partial easiness of economy, turning it partially to the private sector. This measure was considered to be temporal and brought legitimate results.Before the revolution Russia was one of the principal(prenominal) exporters of grain. After getting power Stalin took defi nite steps to renew the image of Russia as the main grain exporter. The former economic relations had been destroyed and the new ones were not built. The first tramp of repression known as collectivization began. Peasants were forced to enter the collective farms, to a greater extent(prenominal) or less well-to-do peasants were exiled and their property was confiscated. The military units collected the harvest home by force and displace the products to cities.The repression machine started take oning and mass were prosecuted and sent to prison even for to gleaning. One of the most striking phenomena of the 30s Soviet Union was famine which burst out even in the rural regions of Ukraine famous for its fertile soil. The agri religious fadural products were forcibly collected and sent to the cities. Of course, Stalin was responsible for this. Meanwhile the inner ideological struggle between the Communist Party leaders was going on. Stalin tried to eliminate any learn of the ex iled Trotsky.The advocates of the Stalins rule stated that the situation of the USSR was difficult, it was surrounded by the countries with the uncongenial according to Lenin ideologies and the country needed the strong leader to renew the manufacturing and provide the economic growth. Having nothing but the repressive machine Stalin started the great renewal of the industry. The huge repressive machine started its operations in 1936 after(prenominal) the assassination of Kirov in 1934. Huge formation described by black lovage Solzhenitsyn as Archipelago Gulag was established.GULAG is the abbreviation from Russian of Main Department of Prisons. NKVD (secret police) tried to expose imaginary anti-Stalin conspiracies throughout the country. One of the most tragic consequences of the Stalins repression was the voidance of the Soviet military elite before the WWII. Almost all outstanding military leaders were repressed and executed. At the same time all remarkable pre-WWII industr ial achievements were associated with Stalin and mass repressions. Article 58 of the criminal calculate presupposed severe repressions for being the peoples enemy.The interpretation of the polity was very broad. The representatives of intelligentsia, science, and army were imprisoned according to this article. This article could be utilize to anyone and condemned had to work hard building the hydropower stations, plants, roads and channels. The cheap labor of Gulag was the main reason of the industrial achievements of the 30s. At the same time the cult of the Stalins personality was steadily growing. A number of songs, poems and films were devoted to the commence of Peoples.The adoration was reaching absurd forms very often and it was nothing more but fear to be repressed moved the Stalins admirers. This is one of the examples of widely used odes to Stalin O great Stalin, O leader of the peoples, molarity who broughtest man to birth. Thou who fructifies the earth, Thou who rest orest to centuries, Thou who makest bloom the spring, Thou who makest jar the musical chords Thou, splendour of my spring, O thou, Sun reflected by millions of hearts. 2 The USSR was altogether unprepared to the WWII known as the Great Patriotic War in the history of the Soviet Union.It is very complicated issue to discuss the reasons of the war but the role of Stalin was remarkable. By 1941 when German fascists attacked the USSR the personality cult of Stalin was successfully formed and played its certain (though questionable) role in the consolidation of the nation. The political biography of Stalin is a remarkable phenomenon. Millions of people were executed and the bloodiest human hating fascist regime was eliminated. He turned the theory of socialism upside round he replaced the original thesis socialism for people by his own people for socialism.His saying there is no problems if there is no a person reflects his style of leadership. Outstanding scientists were intentional ly imprisoned to work in the secret closed scientific institutes developing the mass destruction weapon. Stalin played his certain positive role in the WWII, but the causes and consequences of the war have not been yet still clearly defined. The victory over Nazism is sometimes presented as the Stalins personal achievement and historians sometimes dont care about the 200 million people and brilliant military leaders who directed Soviet soldiers.The historical evaluation is very difficult thing and the responsibility of Stalin for genocide against the Soviet people is unquestionable. At the same time the dictators are not just villains. This would be a very simplified approach. Soviet people under the advocate of Stalin built one of the worlds most powerful economies though it cost millions of innocent victims. The Soviet leader of the 60s Nikita Khrushev admitted and unmasked the cult of personality of Stalin but system changes took place only in late 80s under the guidance of Go rbachev