Revolutions of Joseph Stalin

Introduction

After Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) attained complete mastery across the USSR in the year 1929, he guided it by different and powerful revolutions: economic revolution, social revolution and political revolution. These revolutions came out as transformations that turned Russia into a large industrialized state and a military machine. These revolutions also compounded both appreciation for and concern of communist ideology all around the world. Stalin inaugurated an economic, social, and political revolution that was more sweeping in its results than the revolutions of 1917 (Historicus 175). This paper will provide an overview of Stalin's revolutions and the strategies he took to intensify the communist forces in Russia.

Discussion

Joseph Stalin, who joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, was contented to apply the blunt bureaucrat job as the general secretary of the party when other members of Politburo contained party positions that allowed them to show their superb rhetorical abilities (Schefer 445). Stalin had an adept controlling and organizing power and many of the Politburo members soon discovered that the party perspective was really the most crucial.

Stalin's ambition to turn USSR into an industrial nation was not intended initially to produce consumer goods for a mass market, much less enrich individuals as in Britain and the United States (Moss 280). Instead, Stalin's intentions were to step-up the force of the Communist Party inside Russia and create the power of the Soviet Union more than any country in the world (Ruutu 77). By developing Russia's industriousness, Stalin was settled to preclude a repeat of the demeaning Russian defeat which was suffered in 1917 by the Germans. Stalin encouraged rapid industrialization by a number of sequential Five-Year Plans. These played an important part for Russia in adopting a systematic approach of concentrated control imitated from the World War I German experience. The goal of the first Five-Year plan was to quintuple the output of electricity and double that of heavy industry that produced coal, machinery, iron and steel. Stalin's second Five-Year-Plan covering the period 1933 to 1937 was originally intended to increase the output of consumer goods. But when Nazis took over Germany in 1933, Stalin altered his plan including focus for heavy industries producing armaments (Schefer 445).

Stalin also overthrew much of the lenient societal legislations made in the former years. These include measures such as recommending rights for women and their equality, making divorce and abortion light to obtain and also supporting women to act outdoors and sexually free themselves. As Stalin bore on power, the household was valued as a small collective unit where parents took the task of infusing basic civil values like discipline, hard work, and duty (Moss 283). Forceful abortion was declared unlawful and fathers who were divorced and did not support their children were heavily fined. According to the June 1936 divorce law, fines were enforced for recurrent divorces, and heinous acts such as homosexuality were declared criminal as well. The authorities now valued maternity and pressed women to have expectant families as a loyal duty ...