Do these Sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin?

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07/05/07                

GCSE History Coursework Assignment 2.

1: Do these Sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin?

        Source B is a source that supports Stalin. Stalin is being portrayed as a very friendly, and tolerable man. He looks like an avuncular, fatherly figure to the workers or the whole of Russia. Stalin is standing next to one of his great industrial achievement and hydroelectric dam, with some of the workers from this dam. This shows Stalin as a very kind and as a person who doesn’t mind mixing with the lower class people, unlike the previous leader (before Lenin) the Tsar who would never do this kind of thing. This also fits with the communist system because everyone should be equal and it is mainly the working classes who support communism so this is a good promotional painting. At the time this painting Russia was in the middle of the five year plans, where the government set targets for the different industries such as coal, pig iron, steel, oil and electricity so this painting will show Russians that the five year plans worked and how good they are, with all the happy workers and the sparkling white dam on a beautiful sunny day. This painting tries to show that Stalin is a very clever and strong leader as he is standing on his dam and pulling Russia out of the old ways and into the 20th Century with industrialisation.

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        Source C is also a source that supports Stalin. He is standing on some sort of stage and a huge crowd of women is trying desperately to shake his hand or just to touch him. These women are wives of Russian army officers. So these women are usually quite important and civilized women but to reach out towards Stalin in this manor is quite unusual. This gives the people who look at this photograph will think look at Stalin a very popular and kind person, who gives up his time to shake hands with his loyal supporters. He also ...

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