... In the end Stalin emerged victorious, and he was to rule Russia for the next half century. His impact therefore on Russia and its people is tremendous. ... Russia was already two million tons short of the amount of grain that they needed to feed their workers, and Stalin wanted to raise money for his industrialisation plans by exporting surplus grain. ... Roberts 1986
However, collectivisation was not all failures, it did have some good benefits for Russia. ... He believed that Russia was at least 50-100 years behind the West, and he wanted this gap to be closed rapidly. ...
Stalin had wanted Russia to become recognised as a world super power. ... this rapid growth gave Russia the raw materials that it needed to become a super power. ...
“The 5-Year Plans were a period of genuine enthusiasm, and prodigious achievements were recorded in this time”
Stalin and Stalinism—Martin McCauley
Regardless of all the successes, the 5-year plans did have a number of bad effects on Russia and its people. ... Approximately 25,000 officers were arrested or executed, including the Supreme Commander of the Red Army and Russia’s most famous general, Marshal Tukhachevsky. ...
Regardless of all the fear and terror caused by the purges, there were a number of benefits for Russia and its people. ... Russia was turned from a backward peasant farm into a world super power. This greatly benefited the USSR in World War Two, because even when the Russians were doing very badly against the Germans, no one challenged Stalin’s leadership, and this helped Russia avoid defeat. ... So by providing slave labour, the purges did not benefit the people, but did profit Russia as a whole. ...
However, the purges did create a number of problems for Russia and it people. ... ”
People and Events of the Modern World
Stalin wanted to ban all religion in Russia. ... Many religious believers fell victim to the terror; by 1939 only 12 out of the 163 bishops active in Russia had escaped arrest imprisonment. ... However in 1941 Stalin reversed the policy of persecuting religious believers when the Germans invaded Russia, because he wanted all Russian society to be united. ... ”
Stalin’s Russia—M. ...
“All creative art in Russia portrayed a leader harmoniously working towards a new Russia.”
Stalin’s Russia—M. Whittock
Therefore in conclusion, it can easily be said that Stalin’s impact on Russia and its people was massive. Regardless of the fact that he used much of the same methods as Lenin, Stalin changed Russia totally, for generations to come. The changes not only modernised Russia and helped it to not only get through the second world war, but they also turned it into a super power. ... In comparison to Lenin’s rule, Stalin’s featured a lot more development that was essential if Russia was to survive. The Bolshevik’s were only in power for a few years and for the majority of that time there was a civil war in Russia.
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