I'm not a specialist in this topic. However, I understand that the kulaks were the individuals who benefited from Lenin's New Economic Policy, during the mid-1920s. They were able to create farms with multiple machinery and animals (yes, I know...sinful...), and were regarded as better-off than the majority of the Russian peasantry (numbering about 82% at the time and suffering poverty and famine on a regular basis).
Stalin regarded this population as contrary to the communist ideal of egalitarianism and economic commonality. He therefore ordered their liquidation, so as to appease those of the peasantry who were jealous, display his unadulterated devotion towards communism, and implement his first Five Years Plan, which represented virtually complete state control over the Russian economy.
Stalin ordered liquidation of all peoples of authority or creativity, which he saw as a potential threat to the state, all wealthy peoples had their property taken away and all land was separated between the people (so he said...) under state control, in reality he wanted all peoples and things under his own rule.
policy in the 1950's that called for threatening all-out war in order to confront Communist aggression
Joseph Stalin gave the order to destroy everything that could be useful to Germans.So the people fleeing east used to destroy their own houses, to burn the crop field, the industry plants...The same defensive strategy had been previoulsy made against the Napoleon advance.
The event known as the Berlin Airlift was the Allies' response to Stalin's act of closing the roads through East Germany and to the Allies' occupation zones in West Berlin. In order to supply that half of the city, British planes, along with some American, flew into the city to airlift supplies. It was the only safe way to do it, because Stalin wouldn't shoot down an army plane for fear of World War III.
the policy of aiding resistance efforts in communist countries in order to roll back Soviet influence in the world
I'm not a specialist in this topic. However, I understand that the kulaks were the individuals who benefited from Lenin's New Economic Policy, during the mid-1920s. They were able to create farms with multiple machinery and animals (yes, I know...sinful...), and were regarded as better-off than the majority of the Russian peasantry (numbering about 82% at the time and suffering poverty and famine on a regular basis). Stalin regarded this population as contrary to the communist ideal of egalitarianism and economic commonality. He therefore ordered their liquidation, so as to appease those of the peasantry who were jealous, display his unadulterated devotion towards communism, and implement his first Five Years Plan, which represented virtually complete state control over the Russian economy.
Joseph Stalin initiated the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union during the late 1920s and early 1930s. This policy aimed to consolidate individual farms into collective farms in order to increase agricultural productivity and bring control under the state.
Stalin ordered liquidation of all peoples of authority or creativity, which he saw as a potential threat to the state, all wealthy peoples had their property taken away and all land was separated between the people (so he said...) under state control, in reality he wanted all peoples and things under his own rule.
Stalin's predictable response to any let down in coercion were met with statements such as this and to paraphrase, Stalin would declare there was even more reasons for a stronger dictatorship in order to scatter to winds the last remnants of the old classes. This attitude by Stalin was never more evident then when the great purges of the Party began in 1937. Stalin either had dissident party members shot, sent to Siberia or exiled.
The New Economic Policy was reintroduced.
Stalin instituted the Five-Year Plans in order to quickly generate capital for, and ensure the Soviet Unionâ??s economic strength in case of, another World War. One of Stalinâ??s signature moves was to reinstate state control of the farming system which had been decentralized under Leninâ??s New Economic Policy. Stalin also wished to return the Soviet economy to the policy of Bolshevism, or a nationalized, communist economy which had been eroded under Lenin's NEP.
Stalin instituted the Five-Year Plans in order to quickly generate capital for, and ensure the Soviet Unionâ??s economic strength in case of, another World War. One of Stalinâ??s signature moves was to reinstate state control of the farming system which had been decentralized under Leninâ??s New Economic Policy. Stalin also wished to return the Soviet economy to the policy of Bolshevism, or a nationalized, communist economy which had been eroded under Lenin's NEP.
Stalin instituted the Five-Year Plans in order to quickly generate capital for, and ensure the Soviet Unionâ??s economic strength in case of, another World War. One of Stalinâ??s signature moves was to reinstate state control of the farming system which had been decentralized under Leninâ??s New Economic Policy. Stalin also wished to return the Soviet economy to the policy of Bolshevism, or a nationalized, communist economy which had been eroded under Lenin's NEP.
With an iron fist. Stalin was responsible for millions of murders of his fellow countrymen.
Stalin held mass executions and purges. These were in order to keep law and to punish deserters. He also used them to eliminate threats to his power. By far the greatest number of people killed by Stalin was through famine and resettlement of people in uninhabitable lands. Stalin's death count using these methods against certain peoples, societal classes and nationalities was the equivalent of genocide. Millions of Ukrainians (and Russian peasants) were left to starve as their crops were forcibly requisitioned from them in amounts Stalin needed to fund his Five Year Plans without regard to whether the peasants were left enough to survive on. Millions of "kulaks" (relatively well off peasants) were dispossessed of their lands (Stalin's policies of "collectivization" and "dekulakization") and sent in exile in Siberia to die of starvation or exposure to harsh climate conditions.
Joseph Stalin
Stalin, of coarse. All he would have to do is order a massacre like Katyn.