Stalin
Stalin came to power at a time when the peasants were beginning to make a means to an end and could see for themselves a better life. However, it was Stalin’s attempt to make Russia a super power, which ultimately came at a very high price for the Russian people. A common misconception of Lenin is that he was a hero of the Russian people. To the extent that he played a major part in the overthrow of the oppressive Tsarist regime, this is true. However, in protecting the revolution, he had ordered the imprisonment and execution of millions of Russians. These arrests and executions were carried out by his secret police called the Cheka. The role of the Cheka changed during the civil war into an organ of terror, dispensing summary justice including executions and making mass arrests. Things were not all bad however, for the Russian peasants from 1921 onwards as the policy became more relaxed with the taxation on the peasants and the halting of forced grain requisitioning. This was extended with the introduction of the new economic policy (NEP). This new type of peasant in Russia came to be known as a Kulak. The Kulaks could buy their own land and sell off the extra crops they produced -Lenin introduced the Kulaks to appease the
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Approximate Word count = 2034
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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