Stalinism

Ex-Main Wiki Page

"We will return to the main wiki, we will Make PCB Great Again" - Trumpism
This page used to be on the main PCB Wiki, but has been moved here.

Variant

"Hey buddy work on this page and it could be a page on the main wiki." - Neo-Slavery
This page is a official variant on the main wiki. You can find the list of official variants here.

Notice of controversial content

"Hey! Just wanted to let you know this isn't settled science." - Reactionary Scientocracy

This page may contain inaccurate, misleading, or shocking content. Take it all with a grain of salt.

Stalinism is a totalitarian, culturally left (in theory, for his time), economically far-left ideology occupying the upper left corner of the political compass. He believes in rapid industrialization, socialist commodity production, socialism in one country, a totalitarian state, and collectivization of agriculture. A cult of personality was established under his rule, but Stalin expressed his personal distaste and resisted the cult multiple times.

History

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) was an ethnic Georgian Bolshevik member of the USSR who rose to power due to the promotion of Lenin of him as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). After Stalin came to power, he soon consolidated power and won the power struggle against the left opposition ( Trotskyists). Later, he enacted a massive political purge called the Great Terror , the estimated death toll for which is around 700000 to 1.2 million victims. Despite being considered the leader of the "center" (no relation to Centrist Marxism) faction of the CPSU by some scholars, Stalin enacted a similar economic platform to the Trotskyist left opposition.

Shortly after coming to power, Stalin declared the end of Lenin’s New Economic Policy and enacted the the Collectivization of the USSR. During an era of one of the most rapid industrialization in human history, the artificial Holodomor happened under the context with around 3.5 million to 5 million died of starvation. Whether it’s genocide is still subjected to debates in academia. But some scholars believe the famine was primarily caused by external factors outside of Stalin’s control, such as the burning of crops by the Kulaks and bad weather. The Kazakh Famine happened with 1.5 to 2.3 million perished. Stalin’s government enforced Lysenko’s pseudo-science theory.

The Stalinist USSR also implemented anti-parasite laws with Forced labor that punished people for ‘poor labor disciplines’ and ‘laziness’ and gulags. 1.8 million workers were sentenced to 6 months in forced labor with a quarter of their original pay, 3.3 million faced sanctions, and 60k were imprisoned for absentees in 1940 alone. The conditions of Soviet workers worsened in WW2 as 1.3 million were punished in 1942, and 1 million each were punished in subsequent 1943 and 1944 with the reduction of 25% of food rations. Furthermore, 460 thousand imprisoned were imprisoned throughout these years. However, it was noted that there was a substantial rise in wages that happened by the late 1930s after real wages declined to 60% of the pre-1928 level in the early 1930s, and wage funds were increased by 50%. A minimum wage of 110-115 rubles was established in 1937; private gardens were allowed for one million workers to farm in their private plots. Even so, most Soviet workers lived in crowded communal housings and dormitories and suffered from extreme poverty.

Stalin’s regime continued the economic boom of the Lenin era and enacted the policy of Socialism in One Country, which effectively cut off the USSR’s economy from trade with the outside world, avoiding most of the effects of the Great Depression. In the mid-1930s, Stalin began to notice a rise in fascism and proposed an Alliance with the West, which they rejected. Western countries signed the The Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy instead, which includes the partition of Czechoslovakia. Stalin was very disappointed with this decision, and this agreement reportedly influenced his decision to partition Poland. During the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler offered the USSR a non-aggression pact. Stalin decided to take him, believing (In his own words) that it would give the USSR time to prepare its troops. Stalin, believing that Poland would not hold much longer, decided to annex Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, as well as the Baltics, believing that if they did not fall into nazi hands, it would give the USSR an advantage. Mass repressions by the NKVD were launched to suppress Polish civilians and military personnel following the invasion, the USSR, conducted the Katyn Massacre against Polish military officers, which killed 4421 officers. There were also mass repressions conducted by the USSR against Baltic populations with 10% of Baltics either killed, deported to Siberia, or detained by the extrajudicial rule of the Soviet regime.

Stalin didn’t believe that the Nazis would honor the treaty, and Stalin believed they would invade. However, when the Nazi invasion of the USSR happened in 1941, the Red Army was very unprepared. The USSR suffered very heavy casualties, especially in the early stages of the war. However, Nazi Germany’s forces underestimated the harsh weather conditions in the winter of the Soviet Union, therefore eventually giving the Red Army the upper hand. After long and harsh conditions in battles, such as the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Moscow, the USSR managed to push back. During the war, the USSR transported different ethnic groups around the USSR. Per official reason, this decision was to suppress the revolts and alleged Nazi collaborationism of these ethnicities. However, this decision is condemned by scholars as genocide and ethnic cleansing and 800k to 1.5 million died in the process. This population transfer can be traced back to the 1930s, and it continued in 1949, after the war ended. The USSR joined the allies and began to push the Germans out of the USSR and Eastern Europe, with help from anti-fascist partisans of the continent. Finally, in 1945, the USSR, with support from other allied members, such as FDR’s lend lease to the USSR, managed to push the nazis to Berlin, leading to Hitler's suicide and the end of the war. The USSR's participation and the victories of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Moscow are generally considered a major turning point in WW2.

After the Allied triumph in World War 2 against Fascism, another famine happened in Ukraine, known as the 1946-1947 Famine. This would be the last major famine in Eastern Europe, mostly due to the consequences of the war. Due to support and aid from the USSR, many communist governments (such as Dimitrov Or Gottwald) managed to gain power in their respective countries by couping the governments (known as post-war Eastern European coalitions) and began to implement Marxism-Leninism under their government, with the support and aid from the USSR. These governments were widely described as satellite states by scholars. The USSR was, therefore, able to rise to the status of a superpower. The Stalinist USSR almost eradicated the illiteracy rate, with a nearly 100% literacy rate by 1950.

Stalin died in 1953 and his successor started to gradually move away from his influence. Nikita Khrushchev gave a secret speech in 1956, marking the first wave of De-Stalinization and denounced Stalin’s cult of personality. However, the influence of Stalinist policies and practices on Soviet politics would not diminish before the second wave of De-Stalinization, carried out under the reform-minded General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

As one of the most respected figures in some post-Soviet countries such as Russia, Georgia, and Belarus, Stalin remained a highly controversial figure internationally, with most Western scholars and his critics denouncing him, describing him as a bloodthirsty tyrant who killed a range of millions to tens of millions under his rule. Still, some scholars defend his record, and the governments of Belarus and, partially, Russia see him as a patriotic leader who deserves credit for making the USSR a superpower with rapid industrialization and victory in the Soviet Patriotic War. Many Marxist-Leninists generally see him as one of the most important figures who theorized Marxism-Leninism, along with Marx, Engels, and Lenin.

Doctrine

Economically speaking, Stalinism is far-left. Stalinism is culturally variable, but mostly left-leaning. Stalinism is a development of Leninism, his main theoretical beliefs are Socialism in one country (until 1939), Aggravation of the class struggle under Socialism, and Socialist commodity production. Although he does believe in the final goal of Communism (stateless, moneyless, classless, etc), he believes that a strong state is needed to progress toward it. He believes industrialization is needed so that the Socialist state won't get crushed by foreign powers and believes that the Kulaks are enemies of the Revolution, which is why Collectivization is needed, however, he does believe that small peasants are friends of the Revolution. He believes enemies of the people need to be purged so that Socialism can be preserved.

Neo-Stalinism

Neo-Stalinism is an ideology used to represent the followers of Stalin in the modern age. It is an anti-revisionist ideology, influenced from Hoxhaism.

Neo-Stalinism tends to be progressive in its social views, usually in favor of issues like feminism or gay rights and argues that Stalin was progressive too. However, there is a sizable number of conservative neo-Stalinists who support maintaining or returning to the cultural norms of Stalin's time.

Contrary to the belief of many people, figures such as Brezhnev and Kim Jong-il were not supported by most Neo-Stalinists, despite using aesthetics and methods originating in the Stalinist area, their economics and general political system is viewed as revisionist by most neo-Stalinists who derive a lot of their work from Hoxha.

He is stereotyped as being someone who would be willing to deny and defend the actions of Stalin such as gulags, purges of his political enemies, forced deportations of “the enemies of the state”, famines as a result of mismanagement of resources, and Lysenko's biological theories, which people who are opposed to Stalin would consider abhorrent, to defend.

Personality and Behavior

Stalinism acts like a stereotypical Soviet-era politician, often sending people to the gulags. He is very machiavellian, and will achieve his goals no matter the means, usually through the state. He has grand visions of what his state and his people ought to collectively achieve, like rapid industrialization.

Stylistic Notes

• Hates liberalism and capitalism.
• Will repress opposition.
• Machiavellian.
• Paranoid and quick to seek revenge.
• Somewhat dark and misanthropic sense of humor.
• Sometimes cooperates with Nazism, but only for the NAP and to get ahead of them economically, still denies it though.
• Hates Tito and Trotsky for factionalism and revisionism.
• Can either exist alongside Marxism–Leninism as a representation of the ideology as understood by Stalin or will not exist and be replaced ML entirely.
• Speaks with a Georgian accent.

How to Draw

Flag of Stalinism

The symbol used for Stalinism in the polcompball is the symbol of the Worker's and Peasants' Red Army, more famously known as just The Red Army which was a military force led by Joseph Stalin through much of its existence.

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill it in red (preferably CC0000).
3. Draw a golden hammer and sickle inside of a star (feel free to make the red inside the star darker, to mimic the USSR military badge).
4. Draw Stalin's military cap
5. Add eyes.

And you're done!

Colour Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#CD0000	205, 0, 0
	Gold	#FFD700	255, 215, 0

Relations

ამხანაგები (Comrades)

• Marxism - I am merely a student of Marx.
• Leninism - I am merely a student of Lenin.
• Marxism–Leninism - Made by me, Stalinism actually doesn't exist. Marxism-Leninism uses the foundations of Marx and Lenin. I am merely a student of Marx and Lenin.
• Juche - Korean comrade! Here have a tank!
• Hoxhaism - Albanian comrade! I love how he upholds anti-revisionism!
• State Socialism - I helped implement you in the USSR.
• Marxist Feminism - A revolution without women's emancipation isn't a revolution. Make more babies for the state though.
• Industrialism - It is time to put an end to the rotten policy of noninterference in production. Increase production!
• Autarky - Soviet industry is best industry!
• Neo-Bolshevism - Says he’s me but “Off Compass”, whatever that means.
• Police Statism - Thank you Yezhov and Beria for helping me to purge my enemies and political dissents.
• Totalitarianism - NKVD go brrrrr. Though I don't really like the personality cult thing.

ლუმპენპროლეტარიატი (Lumpenproletariat)

• Anti-Fascism - Thalmann was based, but you are kinda anarkiddy and/or lib now. Regardless, I will never forget the Great Patriotic War, and the march to Berlin was based.
• Brezhnevism - Not exactly inspiring, and sometimes critical of me, but at least you were an anti-revisionist who overthrew that revisionist rat Khrushchev and preserved Soviet socialist orthodoxy.
• Suslovism - Very good anti-revisionist protégé, but what do you mean autocracy is anti-Marxist?
• Zyuganovism - Thank you for trying to continue the communist legacy, but too revisionist.
• Putinism - Too capitalist, but at least you glorify me, and you special military operation is based.
• New Deal Liberalism - Thank you for the lend lease Roosevelt, but I'm afraid our little alliance ends here.
• Posadism - FOR THE RED LINE! FOR COMRADE MOSKVIN! Too deranged for my tastes plus he's another Trot.
• Chiangism - Our relationship started at a rough place as I supported the Chinese communists against him in the 1930s. Because this bastard forgot how I and Lenin supported him all the way for his Northern Expedition Campaign with military experts and aid! But I saved him from the Xi’an coup and backed him against Japan at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War. But still, I only did it to let Mao enter Manchuria later and funded the CCP with massive aid support and Japanese weapons. I still tried to help negotiate a peace agreement between the communists and the nationalists to divide China to give him a lifeline when the nationalists were losing the war, though.
• Maoism - Great ally, but why did you criticize me later in "Stalin's place in history?" Also, you are just a Margarine Marxist and I suspected you were trying to become him.
• Conservative Socialism - I am not you, but a lot of people seem to think I am.
• State Atheism - I was very harsh on religion, but loosened up after 1941 to gather a support coalition in the war.
• Conservative Liberalism - We have an odd relationship. I don't like liberalism and conservatism, but I developed a good working relationship in WW2 with Churchill and Jan Smuts.

კულაკები (Kulaks)

• Fascism - Biggest enemy. My gulags can fit all of your followers. Although I signed the Italo-Soviet Pactand built friendly relations with him when the USSR was very isolated internationally. Also, you praised me as a fascist.
• Nazism - You backstabbing reactionary rat! I will defend Stalingrad and Leningrad until the last Soviet man! Prepare to die!!! Wait, you killed yourself? Rest in piss fascist bozo! You should have respected our Molotov-Ribbentrop pact if you were smart enough.
• Homofascism - "Exterminate all homosexuals and fascism will vanish." - Maxim Gorky
• Showa Statism - XAXAXA Manchuria is MINE now you useful idiot!
• Capitalism - DEATH TO THE KULAKS AND THE BOURGEOISIE!!
• Feudalism, Agrarian Capitalism - LITERAL KULAKS!!
• Aristocracy, Plutocracy - LITERAL BOURGEOISIE!!
• Tsarism - XAXAXA, old regime go byebye!
• White Movement - Die, reactionary losers!
• Social Democracy - You revisionist scum! You're just Social Fascism and you're a capitalist in disguise. Also, you killed Rosa (who I don't like)! But I softened my views on you after the 7th Comintern Congress in 1935 and supported popular fronts with you in Europe. You still suck, nevertheless.
• Liberalism - "The bourgeoisie has its own ideology - so-called liberalism. The proletariat has its own ideology - this, as is well known, is socialism."
• Liberal Socialism - Biggest contradictory traitor ever, literally Gorby!
• Welfare Chauvinism, Peronism - I told you about welfarism being fascist.
• Anarcho-Communism - Silly anarkiddy, you aren't a proletarian, your gathering of peasants is petite-bourgeois anarchism!
• Anarcho-Syndicalism - Are you not just anarkiddy again? (And stop saying I didn't help you in Catalonia, we had sent limited resources but then Japan ruined it by clashing with my country in the east.)
• Trotskyism - *sharpens ice pick* You should have minded your own business when Germany fell, but instead you resorted to factionalism just to be salty! But thanks a lot for your help in the Russian Civil War.
• Bukharinism - YOU ARE THE KING OF KULAKS!!! But thanks for helping me to purge Trot.
• Italian Left Communism - So, I'm not a real communist even though I ruled the biggest communist country in the world and spread the revolution to half of Europe and Asia, but you are a real communist even though you just sit in an armchair?
  • - Yes.
• Reactionary Socialism - Don't care, didn't ask. Plus you're a reactionary.
• Khrushchevism - DAMN REVISIONIST NIKITA! You just had to denounce me! Also, you hate the purges and "cult of Personality" even though you helped me with them in the first place XAXA. Defending Stalingrad during the great patriotic war was based though.
• Gorbachevism - I HATE YOU WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING! YOU RUINED THE GLORIOUS SOVIET UNION!
• Yeltsinism - YOU’RE WORSE THAN GORBY! YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING I BUILT WHEN THE BOURGEOIS WEST AND THE FASCISTS FAILED!!! I should’ve had you executed in the gulag!
• National Liberalism, Revolutionary Nationalism - Bourgeois nationalist reactionary scums. You want liberation from my glorious rule? I will liberate you from your pathetic lives! NOW GET IN THE GULAG!!!
• Neoconservatism - GODDAMN NEOCONS! You killed my entire movement!
• Hayekism - Yeah, I'm a big government commie. Problem?
• Objectivism - I should have killed you in the gulag instead of approving your leave to America!
• Titoism - Dubious Marxist! Why can’t you just f*king die! Throwing fascists into the pit was extremely based though.
  • - Stop sending people to kill me... if you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send another.
• National Communism - You are a revisionist who wants to divide the proletarian movement. I killed several natcoms in the 1930s for trying to divide the USSR and I don't regret it.
• Goulash Communism - Gulag > Goulash
• White Nationalism - American cuck who wants to import racism to our glorious Soviet Union, prepare to get exiled!
• Other Theocracies - My lack of god, imagine still believing in these regressive institutions. I'll forever be thankful to the Orthodox for supporting me during the war.
• Separatism - You are all collaborators with Nazis, get deported.
• Reza Shah Thought - Monarchist, social fascist, capitalist, what else is there to say? And you sympathized with Hitler during the war.
• Sanationism - POLAND IS SOVIET TERRITORY REEEE!!!
• Cardenismo - Why did you harbor Trot?
• Revisionist Zionism - Unironic social fascist.
• Scientocracy - Reject genetics, embrace Lysenkoism.
• Agorism - Stop smuggling capitalism into the glorious Soviet Union!
• Illegalism - You're going to the gulag forever greedy capitalist pig! Ignore that I robbed a bank in 1907.

Further Information

Literature

By Joseph Stalin

• Anarchism or Socialism?
• Foundations of Leninism
• Trotskyism or Leninism?
• Dialectical and Historical Materialism
• Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

By Other Authors

• History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course by the Central Committee of C.P.S.U.
• Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Otto Wille Kuusinen

Wikipedia

• Stalinism
• Joseph Stalin's Cult of Personality
• Socialism in One Country
• Intensification of the class struggle under socialism
• Self-criticism (Marxism–Leninism)
• Russification
• Holodomor
• Kazakh Famine
• Great Purge
• NKVD Polish Operation
• Population transfer in the Soviet Union
• Occupation of the Baltic States
• Soviet Invasion of Poland
• WW2 Eastern Front
• Industrialization in the Soviet Union
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
• Lysenkoism
• Great Patriotic War
• Winter War
• Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran
• Doctors' plot

Videos

• Sigma Stalin
• Day in the Life of Stalin by Simple History

Online Communities

• r/ShitLiberalsSay

Organizations

• US Friends of the Soviet People
• Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
• New Communist Party of Britain
• Communists of Russia
• Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)

Gallery

• File:MrSomebody-TenYears.png
• Credit: u/OzymandiasFR, Source
  Credit: u/OzymandiasFR, Source
• u/no_opinions_allowed Source
  u/no_opinions_allowed Source
• Credit: u/duy_physics, Source
  Credit: u/duy_physics, Source
• 
  Credit: TheLegend2T, Source
• 
  Credit: TheLegend2T, Source
• Credit: K-Tech, Source
  Credit: K-Tech, Source
• Original Image
  Original Image
• File:Stalinism (improved version).png
• File:Stalinism(SN).png
• 
  Animalism (Animal Farm)

Citations

Navigation