Essay on Was Stalin a Success - 1295 Words

Was Stalin a Success? Whether Stalin was a success can only be measured in two ways, his own terms, in the terms of Russia or in the terms of Communism - meaning whether what he did with Communist Russia would have been seen as Communist by Karl Marx. How much of a success was Stalin? - If at all and from whose point of view was he a success or not. Stalin being a success in his own terms that is what he would of felt he achieved and what he believed made him a success. He was very successful politically as he won the Struggle for power in 1917, this he would have seen as a success, and he would have seen his life as a resounding success in his own terms. The First Five Year plan, he would†¦show more content†¦This is only from the opinion of Stalin, whereas these successes may have been felt differently from the terms of the Russian people, yet in Stalins terms he was a success as nearly everything he attempted worked for him, one way or another. Russia may have been a military superpower under Stalin and Communism it was still a third-world economy, which meant the people suffered greatly. The Five Year Plans that Stalin saw as a success from his point of view left the workers disillusioned, because the concentration of the Five Year Plans was on Capital goods, this left no room for commercial goods, like clothes and shoes. This meant during the Five Year Plan shoes usually ran out. The results of this was that the workers felt alienated from the system and they subsequently their productivity was low and unproductive. If the Five Year Plans had included basic consumer goods then the productivity of the workers may have not dropped their productivity, but this from the point of view of Russia the Five Year Plans had been a failure in that their standard of living went down. 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