Stalin's Historical Legacy

As V. I. Lenin, the powerful leader of the Russian people, lay isolated and incapacitated after his first stroke, he warned of the dangers of his underling: “Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated limitless power in his hands, and I am not sure that he will always manage to use this power with sufficient caution.” (Bullock 120) The man who would eventually lead the nation of Russia in a downward spiral, from which it …

…people had lost their identity. Stalin’s legacy lived on, however. Until the fall of Communism in 1989, Russia still carried the harsh identity projected by Joseph Stalin. Distrust of the Russians, while fading, still remains. Joseph Stalin will never be forgotten, both by the world he changed and the countless millions of families whose lives were personally changed by Stalin. During the years of Stalin, from 1914 to 1953, Europe alone lost 75,000,000 to mindless acts of violence.