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Stalin forged an alliance with fellow Old Bolsheviks to oppose Trotsky in the party apparatus. Defeating Trotsky was difficult as he had a prominent role in the October Revolution. Trotsky developed the Red Army and played an indispensable role during the Russian Civil War. Stalin feuded with Trotsky quietly, to appear as "The Golden Centre Man".
Joseph Stalin Иосиф Сталин იოსებ სტალინი Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952 [a] Preceded by Vyacheslav Molotov (as Responsible Secretary) Succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev (as First Secretary) Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union [b] In ...
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 is the first volume in the three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian and Princeton Professor of History Stephen Kotkin. It was originally published in November 2014 by Penguin Random House and as an audiobook in December 2014 by Recorded Books.
After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin's rise to power brought about rapid industrialization, forced collectivization, and widespread political repression, which solidified the Soviet Union's status as a major world power but at a tremendous human cost.
British historian Orlando Figes argued that "The urge to silence Trotsky, and all criticism of the Politburo, was in itself a crucial factor in Stalin's rise to power". [71] Cinematic productions served to foster the cult of personality around Stalin with adherents to the party line receiving Stalin prizes. [72]
This created friction between Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin even wrote to Lenin asking that Trotsky be relieved of his post. [21] Stalin ordered the executions of any suspected counter-revolutionaries. [23] In the countryside, he burned villages to intimidate the peasantry into submission and discourage bandit raids on food shipments. [21]
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born " Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili " in Gori, Georgia , to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...
Another view of Stalin (1994), a highly favorable view from a Maoist historian; Service, Robert. Stalin: A Biography (2004), along with Tucker the standard biography; Tucker, Robert C. Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879–1929 (1973) Tucker, Robert C (1990), Stalin in Power, New York: WW Norton, archived from the original on 2000-07-07