A Very Detailed Timeline of Stalin's Russia 1924 – 1953

The USSR Under Stalin ;

Opposition Groups Under Stalinism | Basebenzi

The tradition of tight centralization, with decision-making concentrated at the highest party levels, reached new dimensions under Joseph Stalin. There was little input from below. The party elite determined the goals of the state and the means of achieving them in almost complete isolation from the people. They believed that the interests of the individual were to be sacrificed to those of the state, which was advancing a sacred social task. Stalin's "revolution from above" sought to build socialism by means of forced collectivization and industrialization, programs that entailed tremendous human suffering and loss of life.

Towards a command economy, 1917-28 | A Level Notes

In Russia life was hard for everyone, but still Russia became a successful country As document 1 shows, Stalin, when he came to power and became a dictator, told the Russia people that "…We do not want to be beaten....

Bezbozhnik - безбожник | On anti-religious …

Stalin's ideas benefited some, greatly disadvantaged others and completely changed the way the USSR was run and how all sectors of public life were organised....

Marxist Theory and Capitalist Cl - Earlham Sociology …

Far from withering away the USSR state quickly came to be a One Party state dominated by the Bolshevik Party and subsequently by its leader Stalin [who replaced Lenin as leader of the Bolsheviks in 1924] who soon came to believe that it would be necessary to purge thousands of his opponents from the Bolshevik Party via imprisonment or execution .The USSR economy was at this time extremely underdeveloped and Stalin embarked upon the collectivisation of agriculture and rapid industrialisation programmes in an attempt to modernise the economy all of which resulted in severe hardship for the Russian people as collectivisation led to reduced food output and industrialisation resulted in the allocation of resources to the construction of factories and machinery rather than consumer goods.