He was a bad leader according to peasants. He was also a bad leader among Marxist Leninists. Stalin took care of the Marxists and anyone who threatened his power by executing them. By the end of the 1930's he killed over 30,000 Marxists and/or people he feared within the Soviet Union. They feared of him taking over Europe. Joseph Stalin was the one (along with government) that decided to put up the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was a border line separating East and West Germany. Peasants were not aloud to cross it because Government didn't want Eastern Germany to see the many rights that other countries had.
Stalin was a dictator of Soviet Union and he ran the it with an iron fist. He built a canal connecting Moscow with St. Peterburg and in the process 25,000 of his people died. If he decided he needed a certain skill he would arrest the person, put them in a camp, and work them to death. Millions died under his rule. Not even were his friends safe from him.
Lenin believed in a policy of a democratic Dictatorship. Joseph Stalin followed him to power and instituted a system of communism.
Lenin and Stalin gave the Soviet Union an autocratic (Totalitarian) Communist Government. Stalin kills more people than Lenin did. (Because Stalin is even more cruel than Lenin, who is somewhat more humane and Stalin took place as leader of USSR for nearly 30 years while Lenin died within 5 years after assumed as leader of USSR.)
Stalin did more for the USSR. He repelled German invasion and ultimately defeated them.
Lenin (1917-1924), but poor health prevented him from doing much after mid 1922. He was succeeded by three men ruling jointly - Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev. By 1927 Stalin had sidelined the other two and from 1928 he was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Lenin warned the Central Committee of the Communist Party that Stalin was using the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party to consolidate too much power in himself and his position. Lenin also warned that Stalin was too rude and too coarse for the job of head of the USSR. Lenin always liked Stalin's aggressiveness and willingness to do anything to support the Bolshevik cause, but he did not believe that Stalin was the right person to lead the USSR. Lenin recommended to the Central Committee that it find a way to remove Stalin from his position of power before he becomes so strong, he may set himself up as a dictator, which is exactly what happened. Lenin wrote these warnings in several documents which came to be known collectively as "Lenin's Testament." Stalin had Lenin's secretaries secretly reporting to him everything Lenin did. Stalin learned of the Testament and had it suppressed so that no one beyond certain high Party representatives ever found out about it.
No, Lenin died in 1924. The USSR did not create the Warsaw Pact until after World War II. Joseph Stalin was in power at that time.
Stalin.
Lenin and Stalin gave the Soviet Union an autocratic (Totalitarian) Communist Government. Stalin kills more people than Lenin did. (Because Stalin is even more cruel than Lenin, who is somewhat more humane and Stalin took place as leader of USSR for nearly 30 years while Lenin died within 5 years after assumed as leader of USSR.)
Joseph Stalin
Stalin had a greater impact in the history of the USSR than anyone.
Stalin came to power in stages after the death of Lenin (1924). By 1928 Stalin was the sole dictator of the USSR.
Stalin did more for the USSR. He repelled German invasion and ultimately defeated them.
Lenin (1917-1924), but poor health prevented him from doing much after mid 1922. He was succeeded by three men ruling jointly - Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev. By 1927 Stalin had sidelined the other two and from 1928 he was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Lenin warned the Central Committee of the Communist Party that Stalin was using the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party to consolidate too much power in himself and his position. Lenin also warned that Stalin was too rude and too coarse for the job of head of the USSR. Lenin always liked Stalin's aggressiveness and willingness to do anything to support the Bolshevik cause, but he did not believe that Stalin was the right person to lead the USSR. Lenin recommended to the Central Committee that it find a way to remove Stalin from his position of power before he becomes so strong, he may set himself up as a dictator, which is exactly what happened. Lenin wrote these warnings in several documents which came to be known collectively as "Lenin's Testament." Stalin had Lenin's secretaries secretly reporting to him everything Lenin did. Stalin learned of the Testament and had it suppressed so that no one beyond certain high Party representatives ever found out about it.
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were two communist leaders of the USSR in the 20th century. Lenin ruled from 1917 to 1924. Stalin ruled from 1924 to 1953.
I think Lenin was succeeded by Stalin.
Stalin is the successor to Lenin, therefore, Lenin had no job under Stalin. The answer above is false...Stalin was actually commissar of foreign trade.
When it became clear to Lenin that there would be no Western democracy help to the USSR by staging their own workers' revolution, he had to adopt the "Socialism in one country" policy. Stalin took hold of this idea as well. Stalin also adopted Lenin's modernization of Marxism by declaring that imperialism was the highest form of capitalism. To safeguard the Soviet Union, he made it clear that to build socialism in the USSR, there could be no "white gloves". This meant that there would be bloodshed to make Lenin's dream come true. Stalin's policy was to turn the USSR from an agrarian economy into an industrial nation. Only by doing this could guarantee the independence of the USSR as it was encircled by imperialist-capitalist enemies. While few inside the USSR could fault Stalin for this stance, it was Stalin's methods that greatly disturbed the left wing of the party. And, the cult of personality surrounding Stalin began to take shape.