Aims & Results of

Stalin’s Political Policies

By Soraya Mwangi
 Late 1920s & Early 1930s
01
02 The Great Purges

03 The Great Terror & WW2

TABLE OF 04 Take Away & Debate

CONTENTS
01 Stalin’s Policies as Systematic expulsion of high and
low ranking party members. These
General
expulsions were called purges, and
Secretary Stalin’s early purges were political
in nature

Building base in Leon Trotsky

Central Committee

Grigory Zinoviev
Lev Kamenev
01 The Kirov
Affair of 1934
The assassination of Kirov, known to have
doubts about Stalin’s methods of discipline
and industrialisation, in 1934 set off the
chain of imprisonments, executions and
expulsions that finally gave Stalin full power

The Ryutin Affair

1932
In 1932 Martemyan Ryutin wrote a document
calling for the end of forced agricultural
collectivisation, collectivisation of the party,
Stalin’s dismissal and rehabilitation of
oppositionists
The Great Purge 02
The first round of purgers
ended mid-1935, yet the
second round that would
come to be known as the
Great Purge began in 1936
03
The Great Terror
The Great Terror, the great purge’s more
encompassing and politically devastating
cousin resulted in millions of victims. The great
purge only affected party members, but by 1937
the terror involved administrators, railway
workers, engineers and specialists.
Moving Out by Nikolai Getman
03
WW2 Policies
04

Takeaway &
Debate
Main Source
● Cambridge -
Authoritarian and
Single-Party States
● https://www.britannica.
com/biography/Joseph-S
talin/Role-in-World-War-II