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Stalin’s policies of collectivisation and the Five Year Plans came with a high price of immeasurable suffering among the people whose only choice was between hardship and squalor of the terror of the Stalinist purges. There are many theories about why Stalin embarked on the purges in which millions of people who could not even have described opponents were murdered. So why the urge to purge? Theory 1: Stalin’s purges were driven by his fear of the Nazis and the West that he believes were out to destroy him. Theory 2: Stalin’s purges were a result of his own paranoia and murderous personality.

Theory 3: Stalin’s purges and terror were an integral part of the Leninist system that he merely developed and used for social cleansing. Theory 4: The state-inspired murders were the only way to destroy capitalism and achieve a classless society. Theory 5: Stalin only wanted to remove a few key opponents and that over-enthusiastic subordinates got carried away – same idea as Hitler being ignorant of the Holocaust!!!!!!!

MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT STALIN KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND THAT THE PURGES WERE PART OF HIS PLAN TO SUBMIT A TERRORISED NATION TO HIS WILL.

Course of the Purges The total number of dead is unknown even today, but it was well into the millions. Archives and recently found graves are still being opened and uncovered even in the 21 st century. Evidence/documents suggested that Stalin was planning the purges for years and had the necessary people, machinery of death camps, informers and spies in place for the task. There was an early test run of the ideas in the 1930s when foreign engineers were put on show trials and confessed to sabotage. Punishment of key Soviet officials, such as Bukharin, established torture and the destruction of the accused’s family as standard practice. Nobody escaped Stalin’s purges – the army, navy, party officials, church, academics, farmers, nobility, biologists, doctors, artists and lawyers were all targeted. A murderous mentality was established in the Communist army and enemies were captured and shot as well.

Results of the Purges The psychological impact of the purges on the Soviet Union is still evident today. The USSR was traumatised. No country had ever endured such large-scale terror before – not even Nazi Germany. Stalin imposed a strong socialist will on his country but weakened his country’s defences by murdering leading army generals and naval commanders. Hitler was later able to smash through early Soviet resistance easily – it was only the weather that stopped Hitler’s full scale invasion of Russia. Initiative was destroyed in the USSR as fear of failure dominated people’s minds – if you failed you were punished. Productivity was hit as key managers who failed to meet targets were killed for failing – nobody left to manage factories. Butchery of farmers did not help agriculture either. Industrialisation in the USSR happened in spite of Stalin & not because of his purges. Stalin ordered the assassinations of Communist leaders in other countries. A purge mentality continued after the war & Soviet soldiers who had been German POWs were sent to gulags & death camps after WWII because they had ‘failed’ the USSR.

Did Stalin do anything right? Soviet Union and Social Issues Equality was abandoned. The Communist Party Elite became the new aristocracy. The armed services reverted to being a hierarchy. Stress was placed on the family unit. Morality in the 1930s and 1940s was the same as under the Tsars. Women were exploited even more – child bearers and cheap manual labour.

Did Stalin do anything right? Education The Tsars spent money on education and Stalin continued this. More skilled workers were produced due to the Five Year Plan. Education was offered to more people and there was great scope for the talented.

Did Stalin do anything right? Culture in the Soviet Union A comprehensive attempt to dominate the cultural and artistic life in the Soviet Union. Culture was to serve the state (and Stalin) and there were laws on art, music and drama. Stalin decided what could be said in poems, nursery rhymes and even folk songs. Censorship was the order of the day.