Stalin's role in war leadership
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- Created on: 17-04-14 12:48
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- Stalin's role in war leadership
- Bad leader
- Made big mistakes - refusal to retreat at Kharkov cost over 85,000 Soviet casualties
- Harsh treatment - generals who lost battles were executed/ soldiers were tortured & Commissars - lowered morale
- sometimes played key figures off against each other
- ignored build up of German forces on USSR border so there was no militay response when Hitlet invaded
- Slow reaction to German invasion meant large parts of Eastern USSR were overrun
- Good Leader
- Creation of Stavka and State Defence Committee - politically/ military decisions could be made quickly
- Crucial to organisation of army and country
- began to listen to others
- Control of Beria & NKVD - ensured continued public support for war effort
- Sacked incompetent generals - Voroshilov
- Re-opening of churches - support from religious population
- Army was led by skilled individuals - Zhukov
- Relocation of factories - allowed for continued heavy industry production
- Creation of Stavka and State Defence Committee - politically/ military decisions could be made quickly
- What he did
- Centralised power
- Stavka
- State Defence Committee
- Enforced harsh punishment upon booth troops and generals
- Gave others more control
- Zhukov
- Re-opened churches
- initially slow to react to Operation Barbarossa
- reintroduced Leninist system of Commissas
- relocated factories in East across Yural mountains
- Centralised power
- Historiography - David Reynolds
- "Stalin learned from his mistakes, whereas Hitler only grew more unwiedling with each failure"
- "He gave his top generals the freedom to fight"
- "Stalin intended to terrorize his army into fighting"
- "Stalin wouldn't let his troops fire back"
- Bad leader
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