the use of violence and terror to control his population
totalitarian
Stalin
Totalitarianism refering to a totalitarian state is a one party state in which each person is supposed to work towards the good of state, much like the aim of Stalin's USSR, or the Nazi's Germany.
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Stalin was a master of using fear, eliminating his competition, scapegoating, controlling education, creating an effective Propaganda machine, controlling the flow of information to the people, and killing any communist party members who opposed his regime. He believed that he was the the true communist leader and to carry out all of his policies, he had to be the USSR's dictator. No threat to his power was too small to liquidate. Within a few years after Lenin's death, Stalin created his totalitarian state.
totalitarian
Joseph Stalin created not only an effective communist state, he created a totalitarian state too. He was a feared leader that intimidated the masses with death and imprisonment.
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Totalitarianism refering to a totalitarian state is a one party state in which each person is supposed to work towards the good of state, much like the aim of Stalin's USSR, or the Nazi's Germany.
Joseph Dugashvilli, better known as Stalin.
Communism has no state or classes or money. Stalin was the ruler of a vicious state capitalist dictatorship.
When Soviet Leader Lenin died in 1924, it was Joseph Stalin who quickly ascended to power, ultimately leading the Soviet Union to a totalitarian state.
Stalin was a master of using fear, eliminating his competition, scapegoating, controlling education, creating an effective Propaganda machine, controlling the flow of information to the people, and killing any communist party members who opposed his regime. He believed that he was the the true communist leader and to carry out all of his policies, he had to be the USSR's dictator. No threat to his power was too small to liquidate. Within a few years after Lenin's death, Stalin created his totalitarian state.
The czar that turned Russia into a police state was Czar Alexander III.
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Stalin ruled over a state capitalist system, but he didn’t create it.