Tactics Used By Stalin, Gandhi, and Mao Zedong To Fulfill Their Revolutions and Build Their Nations

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Comment on the tactics used by Stalin, Gandhi, and Mao to fulfill their revolutions and build their nations . Who was the most successful? Why?

Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Mohandas Gandhi were all revolutionaries in one way or another. They all had a purpose and ended up using very strategically concise methods to achieve the set goals. These men came from different backgrounds, but yet, they still had one thing in common: they stood out to everyone else; they were the chosen few, the politically advanced ones, and they knew "what was going on" and how to deal with it.

Josef Stalin was born to a poor family living in Georgia. As a boy, he had studied to be a cleric, but decided not to head down that road and instead followed his interest in revolution. By 1900, young Josef, then known as Josef Djugashvili, had joined the Bolshevik underground and this would be the true beginning to all the strategic methods that he would learn.

He soon rose to the occasion of organizing robberies and other things of that nature. But he was really rising to the occasion of becoming a leader. When Stalin did finally rise into power, he attempted many "Five-Year Plans." These "Five-Year Plans" really did not work. The problem was that these methods of operating were not beneficial to every member of the working class. Stalin's intentions were good but the result of them were not. The "Five-Year Plans" led to the downfall of Stalin. All the time he was in fear of rival party members planning against him. So in order to alleviate these problems, Stalin launched the Great Purge; so if you can't (I know it is a contraction) beat them , kill them! This brought new and young revolutionaries to Stalin.