what year did Stalin take control of russia? ( become ruler)?

Question

I'm also writing an essay on Stalin's purges. Can anyone help me start off on the intro. My thesis is - Stalin's purges of the 1930s had a massive impact on the Russian population, changing not only the numbers, but the structure and heart of the society as well.

Answer 1

In 1912 Stalin was co-opted to the Bolshevik Central Committee at the Prague Party Conference. In 1917 Stalin was editor of Pravda, the official Communist newspaper, while Lenin and much of the Bolshevik leadership were in exile.

Following the February Revolution, Stalin and the editorial board took a position in favor of supporting Kerensky's provisional government and, it is alleged, went to the extent of declining to publish Lenin's articles arguing for the provisional government to be overthrown.

In April 1917, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee with the third highest vote total in the party and was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (May 1917); he held this position for the remainder of his life.

According to many accounts, Stalin only played a minor role in the revolution of November 7. Other writers, such as Adam Ulam, have argued that each man in the Central Committee had a specific job to which he was assigned.

The following summary of Trotsky's Role in 1917 was given by Stalin in Pravda, November 6 1918:
“ All practical work in connection with the organisation of the uprising was done under the immediate direction of Comrade Trotsky, the President of the Petrograd Soviet. It can be stated with certainty that the Party is indebted primarily and principally to Comrade Trotsky for the rapid going over of the garrison to the side of the Soviet and the efficient manner in which the work of the Military Revolutionary Committee was organised. ”

Note: Although this passage was quoted in Stalin's book The October Revolution issued in 1934, it was expunged in Stalin's Works released in 1949.

Later, in 1924, Stalin himself created a myth around a so-called "Party Centre" which "directed" all practical work pertaining to the uprising, consisting of himself, Sverdlov, Dzerzhinsky, Uritsky, and Bubnov. However, no evidence was ever shown for the activity of this "centre", which would, in any case, have been subordinate to the Military Revolutionary Council, headed by Trotsky.

During the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War, Stalin was a political commissar in the Red Army at various fronts. Stalin's first government position was as People's Commissar of Nationalities Affairs (1917–1923).

He was also People's Commissar of the Workers and Peasants Inspection (1919–1922), a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the republic (1920–23) and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (from 1917).

Answer 2

Stalin took control of Russia in 1928 and it ended on March 5, 1953

Answer 3

Your thesis is a valid one, and you will have an enjoyable time proving it. You must work backward, because Stalin worked slowly and subtly forward. In 1934, Stalin had Sergei Kirov assassinated. At the end of his career, Kirov, one of the "old Bolsheviks," was party boss in Leningrad. Stalin used this murder to accuse all the remaining old Bolsheviks of a counterrevolutionary plot at the instigation of Trotsky, who had already been hounded out of the country. Earlier, Stalin had bypassed such offices as president of the Soviet Union (Sverdlov), prime minister (Lenin), or president of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Rather, he took on the post of general secretary of the party. Earlier than that, in Lenin's government, he was commissar of minority peoples. The prosecutor of the purge cases was Andrei Vishinsky. Joseph E. Davies, who was U.S. ambassador to the USSR after 1933, wrote, "Mission to Moscow," in which he said that the prosecutors had certainly made their case.A man named Orlov told in great detail in Life magazine about the Stalin purges when he wrote in the 1950's.

Answer 4

1928