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TEACHER COMMENTS
Packet #1:STALIN
in 1922 Lenin appointed him General Secretary of the party...this gave Stalin the opportunity
he always craved and with Lenin incapacitated he swiftly took charge of the party With
ruthless efficiency, he obtained an order from the Central Committee giving him the authority
to keep Lenin in total isolation from both news of the party and of the outside world...over the
next five years a protracted battle commenced for the party leadership...between times he
instigated the removal of practically everyone who stood in his path...By 1929 Stalin had
achieved ultimate power. (46)
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Citation: Shelley Klein, PG 46
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Assertion 2 Idea: Joseph Stalins maintenance of power
Question 1: How did Joseph Stalin improve/take steps to improve the economy?
EV: Starting
in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched a series of fiveyear plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant
society into an industrial superpower.
His development plan was centered on government control of the
economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in
which the government took control of farms.
Stalin reversed the Bolshevik agrarian policy by seizing land given
earlier to the peasants and organizing collective farms (biography.com)
Source #: 2
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 2: How did Joseph Stalin use his military to maintain control/expand his reign?
(if you dont know what reign means, google it)
EV: In
1939, on the eve of World War II, Joseph Stalin and German
dictator Adolf Hitler(1889-1945) signed a nonaggression pact. Stalin
then proceeded to annex parts of Poland and Romania, as well as the
Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He also launched an
invasion of Finland.
Source #: 2
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 3: How did Joseph Stalin maintain control over the people?
EV: Stalin
EV: After
heroic efforts on the part of the Soviet Army and the Russian
people, the Germans were turned back at Stalingrad in 1943. By the next
year, the Soviet Army was liberating countries in Eastern Europe
the purges of the 1930s had depleted the Soviet Army and government
leadership to the point where both were nearly dysfunctional.
Source #: INSERT SOURCE # biogrpahy
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 3: How did the nations involvement in WWII Joseph Stalin affect the country as a
whole?