Stalin 1928-1941?

Question

What type of person Stalin was to get people to be on his side? How could the violence around him be avoided and why was all the violence around him.

Answer 1

This is really three questions:

"What type of person Stalin was to get people to be on his side? "

Nasty. Fearsome. Terrifying. He viewed those not with him as against him - so they were soon dead.

"How could the violence around him be avoided ?"

It probably couldn't - only another ruthless violent individual could've solved this problem - and the result probably would not have been hugely different.

"And why was all the violence around him?"

He was personally violent -more than once he shot high-ranking individuals personally - once even during a cabinet meeting.

Answer 2

Stalin was a very charismatic person. After Lenin's death, Stalin was able to manipulate Soviet political factions, first aligning with one to destroy a second, and then co-opting the position of the second to destroy the first. In this way Stalin removed his main political rivals during the later part of the 1920's.

While doing this Stalin was able to portray himself to the masses as a strong father figure and gained great support in the lower ranks of the Party.

In the early 1930's Stalin began the Great Purges. In the Purges, Stalin removed counter revolutionaries, dissenters, and potential rivals. All the while controlling the media so it appeared that Stalin was protecting the Rodina and the people.

The effect of all the violence was that Stalin was in complete control of the USSR. The people both feared and idolized Stalin. This complete control allowed rapid industrialization. It took the USSR about one third of the time it took Western nations to industrialize. When Germany invaded, Stalins complete control allowed the Soviet Army to absorb massive beatings without sparking revolutionary or defeatist surges amongst the army or civilian populations, which eventually led to the Soviet's ability to defeat the German Eastern Front.

The violence associated with Stalin could have been avoided. Had Bukharin not supported Stalin in his initial bid for power after the civil war, Trotsky and his supports might have survived and a multi-faction ruling system could have been created. If this happened, the likely outcome would have been another civil war, either during the early 1930's, or as German troops surged through western Russia in the 40's.

Either way you cut it, Soviet society in the 30's would have been violent.

Answer 3

Stalin was very paranoid and ruled with an iron hand. If he had the slightest doubt about anyone, they simply disappeared.
It's said Stalin sent over twenty (20) million of his own countrymen to the Gulag archipelago in the far North of Russia, never to be seen again.

Get the Books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn : He was a political prisoner and spent over ten years in the far North, he simply disappeared one day after writing some articles for a newspaper. He also wrote several books.
The literary society of the entire world gathered together and fought for his release and that of his wife. The Soviet Government brought him back but kept him under house arrest, then eventually let him go but, exiled him to the West.

His books : The Gulag, describe his imprisonment and the life of the prisoners of the Gulag.

Answer 4

Stalins repressions took lives of ~50.000.000 russians,No man-No problem,1 Death is Tragedy-Millions just Statistic,he was simple guy from georgian mountain village,graduated christian church school,then got brain washing by communist ideology,was very clever and big workholic,he can sit at his "Dacha" and work by nights and days,all time note something,he was genios maniac of communistic authoritarian empire ideology,but had paranoa about jews doctors,which in true fact done those Stalins scare nightmare by hand of Beria(too georgian guy)

Answer 5

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