Stalin: Did His Rule Benefit Russian Society And The Russian People?

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Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, on the
southern slopes of the Caucasus mountains, in the town of Gori. His mother,
Ekaterina was the daughter of a peasant who married at fifteen and who lost her
first three children at birth. Vissarion, his father, was a self-employed
shoemaker who had a violent temper (Marrin 6-7).
Young Djugashvili was small and wiry and had a deeply pitted face from a
small pox attack that nearly killed him. He also had blood poisoning in his left
arm that was probably caused by Vissarion's beating fists. The arm would stiffen
at the elbow joint and wither, making it lame and useless for the rest of his
life (Lewis 8; Marrin 8).
He was dedicated to only one person, his mother, and her only ambition
was for her son to become a priest and to bless her with his own hands. But,
this dream was crushed when Joseph was expelled from Tiflis Theological Seminary
for reading "forbidden books" such as Marx and Lenin (Lewis 8; Marrin ...

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for the Soviet Union were
the Five Year Plans in industry. Russia had not yet had their industrial
revolution and were far behind the other powers of the world. Even Stalin said,"
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good
this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed." So, that
is what Stalin set out to do (Dmytryshyn 158).
The First Five Year Plan was adopted in April 1929 by the Sixteenth
Party Conference. It's purpose was to increase Russia's industrial production.
On December 31, 1932, the First Five Year Plan was declared officially completed
ahead of schedule. Total industrial output increased two hundred and ...

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