We are the Realization of the Plan 1933
Stalin in the Kremlin cares about each one of us! 1940
"Long live the great Stalin!" 1938
We are the Realization of the Plan 1933
Stalin's Life
Stalin: Born on 18 December 1879.
Grew up in poverty.
1906-1907: Marriage
Joseph married his first wife Ketevan Svanidze in 1906. She comes from a poor family of minor nobility. After the bank robbery, him and his family escape Tsarist forces by travelling to Baku in Azerbaijan. When his wife dies of Typhus in 1907, he leaves his son to be cared for by his wife's parents and devotes his time into his revolutionary work.
He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910.
Lenin organizes the Russian revolution and promises "peace, land and bread"
When Lenin takes power, he appoints Stalin to be general secretary of the communist party.
After Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin becomes the new leader.
Stalin develops his own nationalistic brand of Marxism “socialism in one country” concentrating on strengthening the Soviet Union rather than world revolution.
By late 1920, Stalin is the sole leader of the Soviet Union.
Stalin instigated a series of five year plans to turn the Soviet Union into a modern industrialized country.
First five year plan: 1927- 1932
During this period, Stalin pursued the policy of "collectivization" in agriculture to facilitate the process of rapid industrialization
Second five year plan: 1933-1938
Because of the successes made by the first plan, Stalin did not hesitate with going ahead with the second five-year plan in 1932, although the official start-date for the plan was 1933
The second five-year plan gave heavy industry top priority
Third fine year plan: 1938-1941
The third five-year plan ran for only 3 years, up to 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during the Second World War. As war approached, more resources were put into developing armaments, tanks and weapons, as well as constructing additional military factories east of the Ural mountains
He is afraid that if the Soviet Union is not modernized then communism will fail and the country will be destroyed by its capitalist enemies.
Increase in coal, oil, steel productivity and the country sees massive economic growth.
In 1919 he marries his second wife and have 2 children- wife kills herself in 1932
Stalin signs a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler and agree to divide eastern Europe between them.
Changes Stalin made to the USSR
Increased power of the state’s secret police and intelligence agencies.
They were able to set up intelligence networks in most of the major nations of the world (germany)
Stalin made use of the communist international movement in order to infiltrate agents to ensure that foreign communist parties remained pro-soviet.
Reasons why Stalin wanted to carry out the economic policies
1.Turn the soviet union into a modern world power (self-sufficient and militarily strong socialist state)
2.Demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism by providing a modern USSR could out produce the leading capitalist nations.
3. Improve the living standards of all soviet citizens. In order to feed the population,he needed the agriculture to be more efficient.
4. by 1928, the USSR was 20 million tons of grain short to feed the towns.
Social services:
- Girls were given equal education and women had equal rights in employment
- Advancements in health care, increased lifespan and quality of life
- first generation free from typhus, cholera and malaria.
- First generation of women to give birth in hospitals with access to prenatal care.
- Education-increases standard of living, economic development.
- Literacy
- Engineers were sent out to lear industrial technology
- Transport- new railways
- They could afford to buy the goods that were mass produced by the economy
- The increase in demand due to industrialization and the decrease in the workforce due to world war 2 and repressions generated a major expansion in job opportunities for the survivors, women.
