“Saviour of Russia” or “Tyrannical Dictator” which term is the better description of Stalin’s perfor - page 2
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to his goals that were set too high, the Russian industry and has brought Russia out of the backward agricultural society into an advanced industrial one, which he set out to do in the first place.
During the war the Nazi’s invade Russia not expecting to find a hugely modernised army waiting for them with a huge industry behind them and so the Nazi’s were beaten and so Stalin had saved Russia form defeat and who knows what will have happened if Russia had lost that war. Stalin improved living standards all around the country as well as modernising all of Russia. Stalin also created a cult of personality around himself.
On the other side of the coin Stain was seen as a Tyrannical dictator, using terror to his advantage in the form as purges. The use of terror, which had played a role in the communist hold on power since 1917, became a major part of the soviet regime during the 1930’s with the great Purges against opposition members. Lots of show trials were held which saw former leaders of the regime accused and them nearly always executed. But the purges were extended beyond the former leaders who had become on the wrong side of Stalin, to any one who was an “enemy of the people” Many people were sent to Gulags which were wok camps in Siberia, basically meant that they would work for a year and then die without anyone seeing them again.
Opposition to Stalin had grown from the first five-year plan was put in action and also the collectivisation was not liked throughout the land, this hate was then fuelled by the famine that was cause by Stalin’s dictatorship, as the collectivisation he relied on so much did not work at all. Collectivisation was when the sate collected all the food produced by the farmers. Stalin especially targeted the Kulaks who were a group of peasant farmers with there own small farm, Stalin took away their goods to feed the army and gave them back the surplus which was nothing basically, these Kulaks began to fight back and violent resistance was in the way of anyone who took away their crops, this meant many of the kulaks died and all their crops got taken anyway. The peasants, not surprisingly, hated collectivisation as it would leave them with little food at all. The peasants went to
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