GROUP LEADER: GRACE MO 31

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F.3 HISTORY MINI-PROJECT

• GROUP LEADER GRACE MO (31)
• GROUP MEMBERS LIANNA KWOK (20)
• KRISTIN YAU (36)
• ANGEL YAU (37)
• SWING YUEN (39)

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Was Stalin a GOOD leader??
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Brief introduction about Stalin

• 1879- Born Joseph Dzhugashvili
• 1922-1953- He was the General Secretary of the
  Central Committee of Communist Party of the
  Soviet Union from.
• 1928 onwards- He increasd the control over the
  Communist Party, making him the leader of
  Communist Party and the dictator of the USSR.

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What had Stalin done??

• Turned USSR into a totalitarianism country and
  became a dictator
• Five-year Plans
• Great Purges

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Five-Year Plan

• Industrialization
• In order to industrialize USSR to improve the
  economic structure, Stalin made use of the unpaid
  labor of both common and political prisoners in
  the labor camps. He also consulted foreign
  experts to instruct their workers and improve
  their manufacturing processes.

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• Collectivization
• In order to increase the agricultural output by
  forming large-scale mechanized farms, he brought
  the farmers under more direct political control,
  and made tax collection more efficient.

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Impact of the Five-Year Plans

• Industrialztion
• Increased the steel and coal output of USSR.
• Helped to modernize the previously backward
  Soviet economy as more new products were made and
  the scale of products made were greatly
  increased.
• Some innovations were based on native technical
  developments, and others were based on imported
  form foreign technology.

• Collectivization
• The agricultural production actually dropped.
  Stalin blamed the failure on the farmers who
  resisted collectivization. But many historians
  assert that the disruption caused by
  collectivization was largely responsible for
  famines.

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The Great Purges

• In order to consolidate absolute power in USSR,
  Stalin ordered his secret police to launch a
  broad purge in USSR to suppress or remove the
  intellectuals or artists those who threatened his
  leadership.

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• In 1937, Red Army commanders were charged with
  conspiracy, convicted, and executed.
• In Second World War in 1939, about 30,000
  officers in the armed forces had been executed.
  It has been estimated that between 1936 and 1941,
  a third of all military officers were arrested.
• From 1936 until 1953,those targeted by the purge
  were often expelled from the party,exile in
  Siberia, sent to the labor camps, other remote
  regions, imprisonment or even to the execution
  held by the Soviet secret police.

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Impact of the totalitarian rule of Stalin

• Stalin's rule had long-lasting effects on the
  features that characterized the Soviet state from
  the era of his rule to its collapse in 1991.
• Some people said Stalin was actually the last
  legitimate Socialist leader in the history of
  USSR.
• Stalin claimed his policies were based on
  Communism. Some Russians are now often represent
  a political and economic system called Stalinism.

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Was Stalin a GOOD leader??

• We think that Stalin was not a good leader.
• The Great Purge was very cruel
• The adoption of the Five-year plans could not be
  accepted by each citizen in the USSR.

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Duty List
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