Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин

იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili

“Soso”“Koba”

“Lenin’s Left Leg”

“Pock-marked Joe” “Uncle Joe”

Father of Nations

Gardener of Human Happiness

Brilliant Genius of Humanity

“The Great Helmsman”

“Beloved Stalin, a fortune of the nation”

Thanks to Stalin for a happy,

joyful childhood

Stalin

What attracted Lenin to someone like Stalin?

A non-educated peasant

A man of action over intellectualism

Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva

Son - Yakov Iosifovich son Vasily Dzhugashvili, and daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva

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 removedfrom his position

Eliminating Trotsky

Lev Kamenev

Sergei Zinoviev

Stalin was given the job of running the party secretariat

Was responsible for appointing people to administrative positions

He removed those he didn’t like and appointed those who supported him

Dead Lenin

Trotsky exiled

Purges of the 30’s

Sergei Kirov

Lev Kamenev Sergei Zinoviev 13 party members

Karl Radek 16 party members

1936

1937

1938

Nikolai Bukharin Alexei Rykov Genrikh Yagoda Nikolai Krestinsky Christian Rakovsky15 party members

Red Army Purges1937

7 top army commanders

30,000 members of the armed forces were executed. This included fifty per cent of all army officers

NKVD Purges