Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин
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Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин. იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი. Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili. “Koba”. “Soso”. “Lenin’s Left Leg”. “Pock-marked Joe”. “Uncle Joe”. Father of Nations. Gardener of Human Happiness. Brilliant Genius of Humanity. “The Great Helmsman”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин
იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი
Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili
“Soso”“Koba”
“Lenin’s Left Leg”
“Pock-marked Joe” “Uncle Joe”
Father of Nations
Gardener of Human Happiness
Brilliant Genius of Humanity
“The Great Helmsman”
“Beloved Stalin, a fortune of the nation”
Thanks to Stalin for a happy,
joyful childhood
Stalin
What attracted Lenin to someone like Stalin?
A non-educated peasant
A man of action over intellectualism
Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva
Son - Yakov Iosifovich son Vasily Dzhugashvili, and daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva
Trotsky vs Stalin
Leon Trotsky – Lenin makes him War Commissar
Stalin – Commissar of Nationalities
Civil War – Lenin turns away from Stalin
1918 – Trotsky sent Stalin a detachment of army specialists
Stalin distrusted the trained military, had them all killed
“Death solves all problems… no man, no problems”
This ruthlessness convinced Lenin to have Stalin removedfrom his position
Eliminating Trotsky
Lev Kamenev
Sergei Zinoviev
Stalin was given the job of running the party secretariat
Was responsible for appointing people to administrative positions
He removed those he didn’t like and appointed those who supported him
Dead Lenin
Trotsky exiled
Purges of the 30’s
Sergei Kirov
Lev Kamenev Sergei Zinoviev 13 party members
Karl Radek 16 party members
1936
1937
1938
Nikolai Bukharin Alexei Rykov Genrikh Yagoda Nikolai Krestinsky Christian Rakovsky15 party members
Red Army Purges1937
7 top army commanders
30,000 members of the armed forces were executed. This included fifty per cent of all army officers
NKVD Purges