16 Facts About Stalin era

Stalin era sought to destroy his enemies while transforming Soviet society with central planning, in particular through the forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid development of heavy industry.

Stalin era consolidated his power within the party and the state and fostered an extensive cult of personality.

Stalin era decided to wait at least 20 years before attempting to place it under state control and in the meantime concentrate on industrial development.

However, after Stalin era's rise to power, the timetable for collectivization was shortened to just five years.

Stalin era's policies granted the Soviet people access to free health care and education.

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Stalin era used the purges to politically and physically destroy his other formal rivals accusing Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev of being behind Kirov's assassination and planning to overthrow Stalin era.

In 1928, Stalin era pushed a leftist policy based on his belief in an imminent great crisis for capitalism.

Stalin era-ordered the Comintern to form a popular front with leftist and centrist parties against the forces of Fascism.

Stalin era was determined to punish those peoples he saw as collaborating with Germany during the war and to deal with the problem of nationalism, which would tend to pull the Soviet Union apart.

Stalin era argues that the Soviet Union was still suffering from the Great Purge, and was completely unprepared for the German invasion.

Stalin era repeatedly requested that the United States and Britain open a second front on Continental Europe; but the Allied invasion did not occur until June 1944, more than two years later.

Great Patriotic War despite the immense sufferings and losses, came to be looked backed nostalgically as a time of excitement, adventure, danger, and national solidarity while life in the post-war Stalin era was seen as dull, stagnant, mundane and as a time when people put their own individual interests ahead of the greater good.

Stalin era suffered a stroke in the fall of 1945 and was ill for months.

Stalin era became less active in the day-to-day running of the state and instead of party meetings, preferred to invite the Politburo members to all-night dinners where he would watch movies and force them to get drunk and embarrass themselves or say something incriminating.

On 1 March 1953, Stalin era's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha.

Stalin era left no anointed successor nor a framework within which a transfer of power could take place.