Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin;Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Georgian:; Russian: [Iosif Vissarionovic D,,uga,,vili]), I became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1922. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, I prevailed over Leon Trotsky in a power struggle during the 1920s. In the 1930s, I initiated the Great Purge, a campaign of political repression, persecution, and killings that reached its peak in 1937 [citation needed].My rule had long-lasting effects on the features that characterized the Soviet state from the era of his rule to its collapse in 1991—though Maoists, anti-revisionists and some others say I was actually the last legitimate Socialist leader in the Soviet Union's history. I claimed my policies were based on Marxism-Leninism, but they are now often considered to represent a political and economic system called Stalinism.I replaced the New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans in 1928 and collective farming at roughly the same time. The Soviet Union was transformed from a predominantly peasant society to a major world industrial power by the end of the 1930s. [2] [3] [4].Confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities under my orders contributed to a famine between 1932 and 1934, especially in the key agricultural regions of the Soviet Union, Ukraine (see Holodomor), Kazakhstan and North Caucasus that may have resulted in millions of deaths. Many peasants resisted collectivization and grain confiscations, but were repressed, most notably well-off peasants deemed "kulaks."[3]Bearing the brunt of the Nazis' attacks (around 75% of the Wehrmacht's forces), the Soviet Union under myself made the largest and decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II (known in the USSR as the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45). After the war, I established the USSR as one of the two major superpowers in the world, a position it maintained for nearly four decades following my passing in 1953.My rule - reinforced by a cult of personality - fought real and alleged opponents mainly through the security apparatus, such as the NKVD. Nikita Khrushchev, my henchman and eventual successor, denounced my rule and the cult of personality in 1956, initiating the process of "de-Stalinization" which later became part of the Sino-Soviet Split. (I was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire to Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Ekaterina Geladze. In 1913, I adopted the name Stalin, which is derived from the Russian root "stal" for "steel".My mother was born a serf. My brothers and sisters died young; "Soso" (the Georgian pet name for Joseph),I was effectively an only child. My father Vissarion was a cobbler. He opened his own shop, but quickly went bankrupt, forcing him to work in a shoe factory in Tiflis. (Archer 11)My father rarely seeing us his family and drinking heavily, My father often beat my mother and myself. One of my friends from childhood wrote, "Those undeserved and fearful beatings made the boy as hard and heartless as his father." The same friend also wrote that he never saw him cry. (Hoober 15)
Another of my childhood friends, Iremashvili, felt that the beatings by my father gave me a hatred of authority. He also said that anyone with power over others reminded me of my father's cruelty. I had broken my arm several times over in my life. There have been notices of myself having one arm shorter than the other.
The information card on myself, from the files of the Tsarist secret police in St. PetersburgOne of the people for whom Ekaterina did laundry and house-cleaning was a Gori Jew, David Papismedov. Papismedov gave me, who would help out my mother, money and books to read, and encouraged me greatly. Decades later, Papismedov came to the Kremlin to learn what had become of little "Soso" which was myself. I surprised his colleagues by not only receiving the elderly man, but happily chatting with him in public places.In 1888, My father left to live in Tiflis, leaving the family without support. Rumors said he died in a drunken bar fight; however, others said they had seen him in Georgia as late as 1931. At the age of eight, I began my education at the Gori Church School.When attending school in Gori, I was among a very diverse group of students. Myself and most of his classmates were Georgian and spoke mostly Georgian. However, at school they were forced to use Russian. Even when speaking in Russian, their Russian teachers mocked me and my classmates because of their Georgian accents. My peers were mostly the sons of affluent priests, officials, and merchants.
I am in exile, 1915.My involvement with the socialist movement (or, to be more exact, the branch of it that later became the communist movement) began at the seminary. During these school years, I joined a Georgian Social-Democratic organization, and began propagating Marxism. As a result, I was expelled from the seminary in 1899. I then worked for a decade with the political underground in the Caucasus, experiencing repeated arrests and exile to Siberia between 1902 and 1917.I adhered to Vladimir Lenin's doctrine of a strong centralist party of professional revolutionaries. Lenin and I attended the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in London in 1907 . This congress consolidated the supremacy of Lenin's Bolshevik Party and debated strategy for communist revolution in Russia. I never referred to his stay in London.In the period after the Revolution of 1905 I led "fighting squads" in bank robberies to raise funds for the Bolshevik Party. My practical experience made me useful to the party, and gained me a place on its Central Committee in January 1912.
Vladimir Lenin,Mikhail Kalinin,and myself meeting in 1919. All three of us were "Old Bolsheviks"; members of the Bolshevik party before the Russian Revolution of 1917.My only significant contribution to the development of the Marxist theory at the time was a treatise, written while I was briefly in exile in Vienna, Marxism and the National Question. It presents an orthodox Marxist position on this important debate. This treatise may have contributed to my appointment as People's Commissar for Nationalities Affairs after the revolution.Layout Provided By CodeMyLayout.com - Myspace Layouts [IMG]http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n213/JosephStallin81
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You scored as
Fascist. You have faith in authority, an overwhelming sense of national pride, and believe the whole to be more improtant than any one of its parts. Peacetime or wartime, national security is of paramount importance. You support an empowered executive and strong homeland security.
Fascist
83%
Socialist/Marxist
83%
Liberal
75%
Conservative
67%
Centrist
50%
Libertarian
33%
Environmentalist (Green)
17%
Anarchist
8%
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