The Rule of Stalin
Subjects / History / Russia, 1910-1991
Following the death of Lenin in 1924, two leading members of the Communist Party began bids to replace him. The battle between Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky was a bitter contest. By 1929, Stalin had overcome Trotsky and other rivals. He was strengthening his position by removing those in Soviet society who opposed him, and continuing the development of the Soviet economy. Stalin also introduced controversial agricultural and industrial policies. Although he knew these would bring widespread unhappiness in Russia's towns and villages, Stalin was ruthless - any opposition was met with imprisonment or death. By the late 1930s Stalin had succeeded, through his brutal policies, in becoming the 'Father of the Russian people'. Russians showed their adoration of Stalin by hanging pictures of him throughout the country. However, many historians have questioned: was this done out of love, or fear?
| Author: | Cathal Doyle | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-060-8 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-560-3 |
Chapters
- Stalin's Rise to Power within the Communist Party
- Stalin as Supreme Leader, 1924-1936
- Political Purges and Terror
- Five Year Plans and the Growth of Industry
- Collectivisation and Soviet Agriculture
- Propaganda and the Cult of Leadership
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Struggle for power with Trotsky
- Elimination of other rivals in the 1920s
- Purges in the 1930s
- Propaganda and censorship
- The 1936 Constitution
- Collectivisation of agriculture
- 5 Year Plans and growth of industry
- Death of Lenin: leadership contest, Stalin, Trotsky, reasons for Stalin's victory
- Policies to modernise agriculture: Collectivisation, reasons, measures, effects
- Policies to modernise industry: Five Year Plans, reasons, measures, effects
- Suppression of opposition: NKVD, the purges, the show trials, effects on the Bolshevik Party, army, industry, ordinary people
- Lenin's death and the struggle for power
- Reasons for Stalin's emergence as leader by 1928
- Stalin's dictatorship; use of terror, the Purges, propaganda and official culture
- Stalin's economic policies and their impact; the modernisation of Soviet industry, the Five-Year Plans
- Collectivisation in agriculture
- Life in the Soviet Union; the differing experiences of social groups, ethnic minorities and women
- Lenin's death and the struggle for power
- Reasons for Stalin's emergence as leader by 1928
- Stalin's dictatorship; use of terror, the Purges, propaganda and official culture
- Stalin's economic policies and their impact; the modernisation of Soviet industry, the Five-Year Plans
- Collectivisation in agriculture
- Life in the Soviet Union; the differing experiences of social groups, ethnic minorities and women
- Stalin's rise to power
- collectivization, the kulaks, famine
- the Five Year Plans, industry and urbanisation
- the Terror and Purges
- The peasants: the impact of collectivisation
- kulaks
- the Five Year Plans: industry and urbanisation
- The USSR and Europe 1924 - 1939
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