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A Profile Joseph Stalin

While most of the world viewed Joseph Stalin as a virtual tyrant, for millions of Russian and other repressed workers he remained a hero of the working classes. Stalin would rule Russia after the death of Vladimir Lenin, rising in power by "combining the proletariat and the poor peasantry" (Rieber, & Nelson, 1966, p. 73). Stalin created a new view of the state as the main vehicle for establishing and maintaining socialism in which the Communist Party was "supreme" and charged with leading the masses (Rieber, & Nelson, 1966, p. 75). Ultimately, "Stalinism" would dominate Russian culture and society, what Dmitri Volkogonov (2000, p. xxvii) says in his biography of the leader is "synonymous with alienation of working people from power, the installation of a multi-faceted bureaucracy and the inculcation of dogmatic formulas in the public mind." In this description we see the dualistic nature of Stalin's personality. On the one hand, he championed the working poor through communism, while on the other he controlled every aspect of society. This paper will explore both the heroic and tyrannical aspects of Joseph Stalin's leadership, concluding that all in all he was more tyrant than hero.

There is little denying that Joseph Stalin was a champion to millions of Russians and peasants around the world as a hero of the working-class and a foe of capitalism and its exploitation. He also remained a champion to many who saw him as victorious over Hitler and one of the few leaders who stood against the rise of fascism. Stalin was considered a hero to the masses because he relied on Marxist ideology to refashion Russia as a socialist nation where the coalition of industrial workers and peasants would "Serve as a basis from which world revolution would spread" (Rieber, & Nelson, 1866, p. 74). Communism did spread, mostly through coercion, but also from the inspiration and heroism Joseph Stalin inspired in others. Fidel ...

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