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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”.
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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
What attracted Lenin to someone like Stalin? A non-educated peasant A man of action over intellectualism
Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze son Vasily Dzhugashvili, and daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva Son - Yakov Iosifovich
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 removed from his position
Eliminating Trotsky Stalin was given the job of running the party secretariat Was responsible for appointing people to administrative positions Lev Kamenev He removed those he didn’t like and appointed those who supported him Sergei Zinoviev
Purges of the 30’s 1936 Sergei Kirov Lev Kamenev Sergei Zinoviev 13 party members 1937 Karl Radek 16 party members 1938 15 party members Alexei Rykov Christian Rakovsky Nikolai Bukharin Genrikh Yagoda Nikolai Krestinsky
Red Army Purges 1937 7 top army commanders 30,000 members of the armed forces were executed. This included fifty per cent of all army officers