Stalinism

Members of the Communist Party of China celebrating Stalin's birthday in 1949

"Wall of sorrow" at the first exhibition of the victims of Stalinism in Moscow, 19 November 1988

Stalinism refers to the political system under Joseph Stalin, including ideology and state administration. A secret history of those days is contained in the Mitrokin Archives. Stalinism involves using strong state leadership and suppression of opposition to quickly develop a country. Lazar Kaganovich, a Soviet politician, coined the term.

Stalinism existed in the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1956. The Soviet Union was an agricultural country in 1924, but by 1956 it was a powerful industrial country with good living standards. This happened because of the 5-year plans of the government. These plans contained all economic development to happen in the 5 years.

The controversial part of Stalinism is that to do all these things, the government detained or killed many people who didn't like the government. A few hundred thousand people were detained or killed.

Related pages

• De-Stalinization
• Gulag

Stalinism Media

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  Joseph Stalin, after whom Stalinism is named.

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  Modified photo intended to show Vladimir Lenin with Stalin in the early 1920s

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  Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv during the Soviet famine of 1932–1933

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  A poster of the Stalinist era with the inscription "The whole world will be ours!"

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  O kulcie jednostki i jego następstwach, Warsaw, March 1956, first edition of the Secret Speech, published for the inner use in the PUWP.

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  British prime minister Winston Churchill, United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin, the Big Three Allied leaders during World War II at the Yalta Conference in February 1945

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  Leon Trotsky was the leader of the Left Opposition which advocated for an alternative set of policies to Stalin.

References

• Sheila Fitzpatrick 2000 Stalinism: New Directions Routledge, 2000 ISBN 041515233X
• The Political economy of Stalinism