josef stalin Essays - Old Bolsheviks, Anti-fascists,

Terror, a word you may think u know, but you what you don?t know is that unless you truly witness it you may never know what it truly means. Josef Stalin was a man of terror, he along with other dictators from history reminded the people about the horror of terror. He has background information just as everyone does, he was truly a man of terror because he was in charge, he was a killer just like Hitler, and he killed his own people because he was scared of losing his power, he sent his people to work camps, and he was stopped by the Bolsheviks.Joseph Vissarionvich Djvugashvili was the full name of Russia?s former dictator. He later changes his name to Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Stalin means ?man of steel.? He was born on December 18, 1878 in Gori Georia and he lived until March 5, 1953 in Moscow where he died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 74. His mother was Ekaterina Georgievna and his father was Vissarini Ivanovich Djugashvili. He had two wives during his life. His first w ife was Catherine Svanidzl, she died of tuberculosis in 1907. He remarried to a woman named Nadezhada Alliluyeva, she died of natural causes in 1932. He also had three children by his two wives. The first, Yakov, died in a German prison during World War II. The second, Vasily, died in a car accident in 1962. And the third, Svetlana, changed her name to Alliluyeva and moved to the United States ?(Cape 1).?Stalin came to power after the death of Dictator Vladimir Lenin in 1924. There were two main candidates up for Lenin?s spot. There was Stalin and his opponent Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, or also known as Leon Trotsky. Some background information on is that he was Fischer 2 born in Yanovka, Russia on November 7, 1879. His parents were Jewish and owned a farm in the Ukraine. After he turned eight years old his father sent him to Odessa to be educated. Six years later he was transferred to Nikolayev where he was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx. In 1897 he became involved in the organization of the underground South Russian Workers' Union. Eventually he was sent to Siberia because he was arrested for revolutionary activity. Then after four long years in captivity he had escaped and made it to London. There he joined the Social Democratic Party and also while he was in England he got to meet and also work with a group of Marxists that were making the journal Iskra. George Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Vera Zasulich, Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov were all a part of this group. That was just some background of him and some things he did in his past. And obviously Stalin would become the dictator ?(Spartacus 1, TIMES 1).?Stalin was definitely a man o f terror. Would he have oppressed Russia if he didn?t have the power he had? Probably not, but since he had the power and the entire Russian army on his side the people had to obey his orders. An example could be that if he wanted a palace to live in he would have his army force people into manual labor to build it for him. Without Stalin the people of Russia could have never the terror that Stalin portrayed to them. What Stalin did to the people of Russia was horrific it could be considered a good thing. Stalin showed the people what could happen to them. Without him they could?ve never been prepared for what could happen in the future. So not everything about Stalin?s oppression was a bad thing, he Fischer 3 unknowingly showed them that the people need to take power so a tragedy like this will never happen again in Russia, or even the rest of the world ?(Richardson 303).?Stalin tortured his people like Hitler did. They both had labor camps they sent people to but Stalin was worse than Hitler. Hitler only killed twelve million people, which sound like a lot and it is. Take those twelve million casualties and compare them to Stalin who was responsible for the deaths of seventeen million Russians, not just people like Hitler, but