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the Red Army and Cabinet Minister for Nationalities Stalin made it his duty to back
Lenin in everything he said and did Rather than push himself forward, Stalin preferred
to remain in the background and thus was quite happy heading up the Orgburo
(Organizational Bureau) whose main concern was friends and political allies as he
could,nearly always choosing men who came from humble backgrounds and who had
little or no education because these men were more easily manipulated. (Source #6)
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Citation: Shelley Klein / PG 45
ASS 1, Q3: How did Stalin solidify power and ultimately become dictator?
1Box 5 EV1: APPROVED
Stalin takes charge of the whole party administration when he is given the newly created
post of general secretary of the Central Committee, a position that gives him control over
party appointments and allows him to develop his power base. He will consolidate his
influence further by spying on his colleagues, a tactic that will become a hallmark of his
dictatorship. (Source #3)
During these years, Stalin had continued to move up the party ladder, and in 1922 he
became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a role that
enabled him to appoint his allies to government jobs and grow a base of political support.
(Source #5)
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Citation: http://www.moreorless.net.au/killers/stalin.html \ 1922
Box 6 EV2: Stalin becoming dictator APPROVED
"Stalin remains as general secretary when Lenin died on 21 January 1924." (Source #3)
By the time Lenin died, Stalin was the undisputed master of the Soviet Union. Stalin
consolidated his power by murdering or secretly discrediting his rivals so that there was
no one who could challenge his authority. Stalin proceeded to dismantle the NEP and
eliminate his opposition. He ordered a series of purges from the late 1920s through the
1930s that resulted in the deaths of as many as a million Soviet citizens (some ten million
were arrested). Opponents of the regime were often sent to labor camps (known as
gulags) in remote areas such as Siberia. The survival chance rates in gulags were very
low. (Source #10)
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Citation: http://www.moreorless.net.au/killers/stalin.html \Background and 1922 & Toms
Lanford PG 31
On September 17, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, revealing that the Soviets and
Germans had agreed to partition the country in their pact. (Source #11)
One advantage of Germany waging war against the Soviet Union had been a new cooperation
between Allied and Soviet forces. However, the relationship became strained. Stalin intended
to keep control of Soviet-occupied Poland and was interested in other German-held territories as
well. The Allies wished to stop the spread of Communism, yet needed the strength of the Soviet
Red Army. On November 1943, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Cairo, Egypt. It was
decided that Eisenhower would take Allied forces into France while The Soviet Red Army would
simultaneously attack the German Eastern Front. (Source #11)
The progress of the Soviet armies on the Eastern Front made it imperative for the Allies to come
to terms with Stalin about the fate of the eastern Europe. (Source #11)
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Citation: ww2history.com/ Stalin and the West
Box 12 EV2: End
Stalin is named 'Time' magazine's person of the year for 1939 for switching the balance of
power in Europe by signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, a decision that is described as
"world-shattering". "Without the Russian pact," the magazine says, "German generals would
certainly have been loath to go into military action. With it, World War II began." (Source #3)
Stalins relationship with his wartime Allies Britain and America was dominated by two issues
which were to cause almost endless conflict. One was the question of the second front by
which Stalin meant the invasion of France via D Day and the next was the thorny subject of
the post-war boundaries of the Soviet Union, and the extent to which the Soviets could influence
or control the border states nearby. (Source #12)
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Citation: http://www.moreorless.net.au/killers/stalin.html \ 1931
ASS 3, Q2: How did the nations involvement in WWII Josef Stalin affect the country as a whole?
Box 13 EV1: community
During the postwar reconstruction period, Stalin tightened domestic controls, justifying the
repression by playing up the threat of war with the West. Many repatriated Soviet citizens who
had lived abroad during the war, whether as prisoners of war, forced laborers, or defectors, were
executed or sent to prison camps. The limited freedoms granted in wartime to the church and to
collective farmers were revoked. The party tightened its admission standards and purged many
who had become party members during the war.
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Citation: http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723 / Death and Legacy
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Soviet2.html / Soviet Union 1945-1985
economic assistance proposed by the United States under the Marshall Plan. Instead, the
Soviet Union compelled Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe to supply machinery and raw
materials. Germany and former Nazi satellites (including Finland) made reparations to the Soviet
Union. The Soviet people bore much of the cost of rebuilding because the reconstruction
program emphasized heavy industry while neglecting agriculture and consumer goods. By the
time of Stalin's death in 1953, steel production was twice its 1940 level, but the production of
many consumer goods and foodstuffs was lower than it had been in the late 1920s.
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