Assess the Impact that Stalin had on Russia and the Russian People

... Q3. Assess the Impact that Stalin had on Russia and the Russian People Stalin ruled Russia from 1928 to 1953. He had some short-term impact on Russia but he was single-minded and not pragmatic- unlike Lenin- therefore his impact was mostly long-term. A significant belief of Lenin's had been that everybody should be equal. Where women were concerned Stalin had other ideas. He reversed many laws from the 1920s relating to women's emancipation, in favour of strengthening the family. For example, divorce and child support (if unmarried) became more difficult to obtain, abortion was made illegal, and women lost rights in the family. Reasons being that many children had been born out of marriage. By 1930 Moscow was awash with a high number of homeless children who had no family and were seen as a stain on the perfect communist society that Stalin aspired to. Women lost the rights they

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