Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Stalin's Leadership

Using your notes from today's class, respond the following question:

How did Stalin's leadership impact Russia? Explain.

Your response should be at least two paragraphs in length.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

stalin's leadership did impact russia. there was many ways he impacted russia. one thing was he made russia a more civilized place. he made new industrys and gave many peole real jobs. but the bad thing was that he increased the uses of many things. but the local people were losing there people who work for them. also the soldiers took all there seed and farming tools so that they can work for the goverment.everyone was equel and stalin was trying to convince the people they can have a better life. but because everyone was equel you could not even trust your family noone. stalin got rid of all the churches so most of the religions were losed in russia. and now stalin made socialism and comunism in russia so russia did get impacted by stain (leader of the revolt)

-Dyana Denishchich-

Anonymous said...

I think Stalin's leadership had a negative impact on Russia. He basically just pushed others down to pull himself,and whoever was willing to follow him,up. For example, the Five Year plan worked really well for the economy. The amount of resources they had went up, but he was forcing some people to work extra hard to get them. He made some peasants farm,and when they were done, just took their crops and left none for their own families.
When you're trying to fix a country, you're supposed to bring the whole country up with you. The rich just kept on eating gracefully. Communists took all the grains from poor farms, knowing that these farmers barely had enough to feed themselves. Numbers ended up going down in the amount of cows,pigs,sheep,etc. were owned. Stalin sent innocent workers to concentration and labour camps where they were treated violently treated and barely had enough to eat. Stalin hated to be corrected. Anyone who disagreed with him was most likely executed. His way was to get rid of anything that was against what he wanted. This caused alot of pain and suffering when he could've just did things the right way and cooperated with everyone to make a better country.


Qiana

Anonymous said...

stalins leadership impacted russia in manu ways. first he lied about many things to make russia seen all good. for example,stalin he protented one thing like one the poster he showes peasents with a better life. the peasants had more money and them being happy but this is not true .also the goverment took amay farming tools like plowers from every farmer .so these farmers could not harvest there crop during the havast season. this caused them to live on the streets with no homes, money, or food.
also stalin got rid of tall the churches so there would not be any religions so everyone can be equel.but this was not right because everyone believes in something differnt. he also increased the production of many items and built many industries. he made his companies became more productive so there was more oil, coal, and other reasoures being used.
svetlana denishchich

Anonymous said...

Stalin's leadership impacted russia both in a good way and in a bad way. in a bad way because his leadership caused alot of people to starve to death. in a good way because he turned russia into the industrial country it is today. i beleive it was document three that showed all of the production rates. before stalins leadership, the production rates for coal, electricity and otehr products were very low. when stalins leadership was over these rates were way higher, which meant many more people had electrical luxuries.
so some people may says stalin was bad while some may say he was good... they would both technically be right.

~Carrie-Ann

Anonymous said...

Stalin both helped and hurt Russia. Under his rule, farming was a disaster. In document one, it said that the communists would come and take away all of their grain and seeds. This prevented them from being able to eat, from making a profit, and from planting any more crops. Stalin took all of the farming and prevented growth in that area. But in other areas, he made them the 2nd best in the world.
Stalin improved Russia's industrial profits greatly. According to document three: coal, oil, pig-iron, electricity, steel and wollen cloth all increased production and sale - giving Russia a huge profit and the ranking of 2nd best in the world, after the United States.

Stalin had a bad impact on Russia during his time, but in the long run, he helped make it what it is today.

~ LisaBeth Steiner ~

Anonymous said...

Stalin was a man with a mission. He had a vision for Russia that he wasn't going to let go of easily. He envisioned it as the greatest country to ever survive with his leadership. It seemed as though there was nothing that could stop him. That was, until the U.S. figured out the atomic bomb.

As leader, he debatably improved the economy of Russia, along with being the first ones to send, something, into space. Because of WWII, there was a decline in workforce, and in turn created jobs for anyone willing and able.

On the other hand, he introduced propaganda into the minds of Russians, along with the fear of being himself. He got angry when people disagreed with him, or did not clap for him when he passed. He forced people to cheer for him, and that basically instilled fear in the citizens.

Anonymous said...

stalin i believe was a bad man. as it said in the notes in class people seemed to be really happy after they became a communist country. i don't know about that because people got all their seeds for farming taken away. even their stock of seeds were found and discarded. also their livestock and tools got taken from them so that no one could farm. this brought them into poverty and it was not good at all. people became sick and a lot even died of starvation.
also he forced them to like him. in the video of stalin and his acts he was holding a little child in his arms and was talking to people of how good he ws. everyone started to clap except for the child. he grabed the childs hands and started to clap them together. and then stalin is a murderer and killed anyone who went against him. he even killed his friend bacause he said" stalin this is not good don't do this." he is a bad man and brought all of his country go into extreme poverty. i strongly believe that stalin was not a good thing for rusia.

Anonymous said...

Stalin undoubtedly gave an enormous boost to the Russian economy. His five-year plans dramatically increased the production of everything from wool to pig-iron. and yet, his people starved, unable to reap the wealth that was created. Stalin was not a man that took suggestions and criticism. He had many killed because they gave him lip. Many were sent to labor camps, and some of those people were innocent. Anybody could be arbitrarily branded a traitor and punished for it. A cruel and paranoid man to say the least, he had most of his own militia executed! From the lowliest Private to the high-ranking General. He ruled Russia with an iron fist, choking his own homeland in his grasp. I would not describe him as a tyrant exactly. That word isn't disturbing enough.

Courtney

Anonymous said...

I think that Stalin had some good impacts on Russia but also some bad effects. Some good effects that he had was that the supply of goods. The supply actually increased during his reign. Also people were viewed as a happy family. That is what many of Stalin’s advertisements displayed.
Some of the negative effects that Stalin had were that people were always living out of fear. People said that they were afraid of all kinds of people, even the ones in their own rank. Also people who were in a specific military group were killed. In the end only very few were left.

Anonymous said...

Stalins leadership had greatly impacted Russia for the worse. For example, the communist came and took all of the grain from the peasents and even when the peasents tried to hide the grain the communist still found it. Because the communist had taken all of the seeds to grow the crops, there was famine and a shortage of livestock.

Stalin demanded submission to his power, and anyone who opposed him was killed. An example of this would be in 1937-1938 the original number of members in the supreme military soviet was 80 and 75 of them were executed.

Anonymous said...

One vey large effect that Stalin had, that changed the country for his time, and even now, was th support to find nuclear weapons. He was very keen on that, and posted propaganda that said it was to protect them, but really it was for later use.
Another effect he had was on the economy. Many things like the production of wheat increased a lot. But even though he got all these things for Russia, he was still getting some of it by taking it away from their farms and their houses in the first place. He, in effect, caused the Ukranian starvation that killed millions of people. He worked the workers to death in harsh conditions and taking them from their families, all the while posting propagandda that made things seem like everything was ok.

Josh D.

Anonymous said...

Stalin helped America as a whole when he became leader of Russia because they were less organized before he was in charge.He made the peasants actually feel like they belonged in Russia.Before the Russian soldiers who always mess with the peasants and made them want to leave the country.Stalin was able to bring more advance technology to Russia trying to level themselves with countries like America. This is one of the reasons why the country really started to respect Stalin even more as a leader. Everybody seemed to agree with his ideas except the farmers. Stalin was taking grain from the farmers which meant they would sell less money off their crops which pissed them off. Stalin also would take the grain from the poor people even though he knew those people were weak and hungry.These people had to stash away their food just so the Communist wouldn't take it and they would have something to eat. Another positive for Stalin was that he was able to increase the amount of resources in the country like coal went from 35.4 million to 128 million.

-Brandon L.

Anonymous said...

Stalin's leadership has impacted Russia in a lot of ways. Some are good, and others were bad. Some good ways that he impacted Russia with his leadership was that he increased the industries and economy in the long run. But these were his only ways he impacted Russia in a good way.
Stalin has done many bad things when ruling Russia. He has executed many members of his own army and hadn't make the people feel good. The people of Russia don't make that much of their opinions but don't like Stalin and many of his choices.

Khaled Gulaid

Anonymous said...

Stalin's leadership impacted Russia in a good way. He helped increase the supplies such as coal, oil, pig iron, steel, etc.-(Document 3) Now that Russia achieved socialism people are happier and rejoicing because its better than capitalism. Now their is a classless society.-(Document 2)
The way he impacted them in a bad way is that their started to be a shortage of seed, their famine, and extreme emanciation of livestock.-(Document 4) Now people feared the country they lived in. They would never dare do anything to upset Stalin in fair of gettin executed. Also a fear of being too successful.-(Doucument 6) People were in poor healthe because of lack of food.-(Document 8) Stalin abused his power by imposing his concepts and demanding people to follw his ideas.-(Document 9)

Anonymous said...

Stalin's leadership affected Russia in many ways. Some people say that he was a good leader. But some say he wasn't all that good. Economically and industrially, i, along with many other people believe that he was a good leader. For example in the notes we had in class, it said that when he was in control of Russia, there was an economic growth in Russia. Many resources and their amounts increased rapidly over the years Slain ruled. Not only economically and industrially Stalin succeeded, but, he introduced SOCIALISM, which brought many people together.

However, on Stalin's bad side, he hurt many people's lives. For example, he had absolute power over the country and he used to harm others. He killed so many people in the armies, that to me, when i read it, i thought the whole Russian army was wiped out. Also, he took away many of the needed things that the farmers needed. Like for example, he took away the seeds and utilities needed for farming. He also pushed his people into working in horrible conditions. Like for example, he made people build his empire in harsh winters and heavy rainfalls. It was brutal acts. In those working conditions, many people got ill and the plague was introduced in Russia.

This is how Stalin's leadership impacted Russia.

Rishi B.

Ethan said...

Stalin provided both good and bad impats on the life on thr Russians he ruled. He did get them to be a more productive and wealthier state. There were great imporevements to the economy and factories. However he was a ruthless man that ofte killed his advisors. He did this because he did not want to be overthrown by anyone who he trusted. The worst part of this was that he covered the slaying up by editing photos and denying the truth. Stalin basically forced his will on the people of Russia. You could really see this when he made a little girl clap for him by forcing her hands together. Ithink the worst suffers were the everyday peasants. they had all their grain, liveshock and food taken by the government. this led to a ton of people starving and dying because it was so cold but they had no food so their strengh just failed. If he wanted to kill people he could have done it in a beter way than this. it would be horrible to starve. Basically Stalin made the country a hardworking, wealthy place but there were mass murders and distrust among people.

Anonymous said...

Stalin's leadership impacted Russia, because once he was in power, many farmers went hungry and became poor. Also, the people in Russia were constantly in fear because he had strict dictatorship-like policies, and would kill anyone who opposed him. Stalin had these 5 year plans that helped Russia become a strong industrialized country. His goal was to get Russia out of imperialism, and turn it into a socialist state.
Jasira