Stalin - the Soviet's Father

2/25/11

Stalin, The Soviet's Father

1879 a small boy with a deformed arm is born in to a poor Georgia village. Plagued with small pox and the constant humiliation of a deformed arm causes this young boy to develop a cold, ruthless heart, with a lust for respect and power. This terribly troubled young boy's name was Joseph Stalin little did anyone know that this child would grow up to be the ruler of one of history's greatest military powers. September 1894 Stalin's mother sent him away to a seminary in Tiflis, the capital of Georgia, to become a priest. Stalin never completed his education because he was expelled from the school in 1898. For years, Stalin believed intellectuals were to be entrusted because of his childhood teachers and classmates. This distrust would soon play an important role in history.

Stalin was very in to the Russian revolution and was arrested and banished to Siberia several times only to escape and return to protest more. Stalin's bloody road to power started in December 1905 at the Bolshevik conference, in 1903 the Social Democrats split into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. At this meeting Stalin meet a very influential man named Lenin. Unlike Stalin, Linen was very smart and a good speaker. In January 1912, Stalin was appointed to the Bolsheviks Party's Central Committee. One year later Stalin and Lenin finish their book known as "Marxism and the National Question". Both Lenin and Stalin believed in a Marxist society the main difference was how they would obtain a population that would support this new life style. Lenin used decisive speeches and elegant articles about the Russian working class to win over public favor. Believing Stalin had the same plan Lenin helped get Stalin to be elected as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee. Finally, Stalin was in a place of power he was respected and honored but it was not good enough. He consolidated power by moving Party members up the ranks so that anybody who was anybody owed him for their position. Linen realized what Stalin was doing but it was too late Linen died on January 21, 1924 from a stroke. Taking power, Stalin sought to take care of all people in a position with power because he still did not trust intellectuals. Unlike Stalin, Hitler knew the only why for Germany to be great was through science and education although the science he focused on involved living humans he still fought for greater knowledge for German people. The second way Stalin got rid of the intellectual politicians was by reveling them to be "enemies of the people" who supposedly worked for Capitalistic intelligence services so they were shot to end their "traitorous ways". The Purges did not only affect the intellectual politicians but also any person who was supposedly working for Capitalism. The economy slowly dropped