Death of joseph stalin biography video

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When was joseph stalin born

Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of , Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms in the postscript of his testament and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition.

By the late s, he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in , concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from onward. Under Stalin's rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power.

What caused stalin's death

Later, in a period that lasted from to , Stalin instituted a campaign against alleged enemies within his regime, called the Great Purge, in which hundreds of thousands were executed. Major figures in the Communist Party, such as the old Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, and several Red Army leaders, were killed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the government and Stalin.

Despite heavy human and territorial losses, Soviet forces managed to halt the Nazi incursion after the decisive Battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase, which saw a significant rise in tension with the Western world that would later be known as the Cold War. During this period, the USSR became the second country in the world to successfully develop a nuclear weapon, as well as launching the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature in response to another widespread famine and the Great Construction Projects of Communism.

In the years following his death, Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, most notably in when his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization. He remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant[8] similar to his wartime enemy Adolf Hitler; however, popular opinion within the Russian Federation is mixed.