Stalinism

Joseph Stalin, after whom Stalinism is named.

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

Stalinism refers to the political system under Joseph Stalin, including ideology and state administration. A secret history of those days is contained in the Mitrokhin 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 did not like the government. A few hundred thousand people were detained or killed. Stalinism also inspired Maoism in China (under Mao) and Juche North Korea (under Kim Il Sung,Kim Jong-il) including Hoxhaism in Albania (under Enver Hoxha) including Pol Pot’s National Communist Movement in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge as well as Nicolae Ceaușescu In Romania but it also inspired Nazbolism in Equatorial Guinea under Francisco Macías Nguema who called himself a Marxist-Hitlerist .

Related pages

• De-Stalinization
• Gulag

Stalinism Media

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  Propaganda portrait of Joseph Stalin from 1945.

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

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  Soviet Azerbaijan poster featuring an enlarged Stalin with workers

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  Stalin's monument in Prague

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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

References

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