Stalin did more harm than good to Russia

The role of Joseph Stalin in the muniment of post-revolutionary Russia is remarkable as intumesce as the history of the USSR itself. Stalin is associated with great purges, repressions, victory over the bloodiest regime in the WWII, mass deportations and the executions. Stalins see is alike associated with the huge industrial raise of the USSR at the pre-WWII period, forcible collectivization of peasants and relocation of hundreds of thousands of mint. He is also responsible for the bloodiest repression system known 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 unmatchable and the ideology of the newly established state was programmed for the violence. This thesis correlated with the general course of the Bolsheviks propaganda of the global revolution and establishing the Communist rule globally as the final aim. Jose ph Stalin, a student of the Jewish-Orthodox seminary in Georgia was grasped with the ideas of Karl Marx and joined 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 take flight in Siberia several times, made friends with Lenin and became growing in the hierarchy of the Communist Party. After the revolution of 1917 he took the leading posts in the Communist Party. He took on the roles of policy-making commissar for the Red Army during the courtly war, and was the editor of Pravda translated as truth, In these capacities, Stalin was able to become a powerful figure within the party, nevertheless he did make enemies. wholeness of them was another key revolutionary figure, a man named Leon Trotsky. By 1922, Stalin was powerful comme il faut to take on the role of General Secretary of the Communist Party. 1 After the end of the well-bred War the Bolshev iks started to re-evaluate the political course. There were several groups advocating various ways of the future development. out front his death in 1924 Lenin warned his colleagues on the rudeness of Stalin and Stalin opp adeptnts tried to get the chance to back him from the power.Stalin presented an argument that Lenin before his death was loathsome and all his warnings should not induct been taken seriously. Ideologically Stalin in contrast 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 economical policy based on the partial liberalization of economy, turning it partly to the private sector. This measure was considered to be temporal and brought certain results.Before the revolution Russia was one of the main exporters of grain. After get power Stalin took certain steps to renew the ima ge of Russia as the main grain exporter. The former economic relations had been destroyed and the new ones were not built. The first wave of repression known as collectivization began. Peasants were squeeze to enter the collective farms, more or less well-to-do peasants were exiled and their property was confiscated. The military units collected the product by force and sent the products to cities.The repression machine started working and people were prosecuted and sent to prison thus far 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 madnessural products were forcibly collected and sent to the cities. Of course, Stalin was responsible for this. stave the inner ideological struggle between the Communist Party leadership was going on. Stalin tried to devolve any influence of the exiled Trotsky.The advocates of the Stalins rule stated that the situa tion of the USSR was difficult, it was surrounded by the countries with the hostile check to Lenin ideologies and the country needed the strong leader to renew the industry and provide the economic growth. Having no subject only the repressive machine Stalin started the great renewal of the industry. The huge repressive machine started its operations in 1936 afterward the assassination of Kirov in 1934. Huge formation described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as Archipelago Gulag was established.GULAG is the abbreviation from Russian of Main Department of Prisons. NKVD (secret police) tried to unmask imaginary anti-Stalin conspiracies throughout the country. One of the most tragic consequences of the Stalins repression was the elimination 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 industrial achievements were associated with Stalin and mass repressions. Article 58 of the cri minal code presupposed severe repressions for being the peoples enemy.The interpretation of the code was rattling broad. The representatives of intelligentsia, science, and army were imprisoned according to this article. This article could be applied 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 Father of Peoples.The adoration was reaching cockeyed 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, cubic yard who broughtest man to birth. Thou who fructifies the earth, Thou who restorest to centuries, Thou who makest bloom the spring, Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords Thou, splendour of my spring, O thou, Sun reflected by millions of hearts. 2 The USSR was completely 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 glowering the theory of socialism upside down 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 intentionally imprisoned to work in the secret closed scientific institutes development 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 righteous villains. This would be a very simplified approach. Soviet people under the guidance 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 Gorbachev