Stalin’s Purge: The Greater Holocaust

Stalin’s Purge: The Greater Holocaust

Joseph Stalin was ruler of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953. While he was in power the Great
Depression devastated the world economy, the Nazis invaded the U.S.S.R., Berlin was cut off from the rest
of the world, and the Cold War began. In many countries his philosophies were believed to be highly
effective, but some of his actions are just being uncovered , and denounced, in “Western” countries like the
United States. One part of Soviet history, only now being recognized for what it really was, is the “Great
Purge” Stalin initiated to rid the Stalin(Groilers-Communism)
country of all people who didn’t support him as “the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union”.
Stalin was born on December 21, 1827 in Gori, Georgia, and given the name Joseph
Vissarionovich Djugashvili. He adopted the name Joseph Stalin later in his lifetime. (World Book 825;
Groilers-Stalin,Joseph) His father was an alcoholic, beat his wife, as well as, Stalin. Stalin’s father died in a
fight when his child was only eleven. His mother wanted Stalin to become a priest, so she sent him to
seminary school when he was 14 years of age. (Groilers-Stalin,Joseph) At the school, Stalin learned about
revolutionaries and became one himself. Eventually he quit school and became “a full-time revolutionary”
against the Czar and the Russian monarchy. He was arrested in 1904 and joined the Bolsheviks. Stalin was
arrested and exiled four more times betwee...

Stalin’s Purge: The Greater Holocaust

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