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.
By giving them freedom, authority and liberty.
Both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin imposed harsh totalitarian governments in Russia and the Soviet Union. Stalin's was harsher and more totalitarian than Lenin's though.
the answer is not who but what. Josef Stalin was the totalitarian ruler of Russia
Stalin was dictator in Russia .
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Hitler was a dictator, he wanted the throne to be only his. while Stalin wanted Russia to be a democratic country.
Stalin was for a communism government. A totalitarian government where he could be dictator and be in charge of what every one under him did.
The czar that turned Russia into a police state was Czar Alexander III.
Germany (Adolf Hitler) and Russia (Josef Stalin). Many people believe Italy was a totalitarian government, but historians aren't sure whether Mussolini intended to have complete control over the people. Another possibly totalitarian government was Japan under Hirohito's rule. However, most people don't believe it was a totalitarian government.
Joseph Stalin ruled Russia, actually the Soviet Union in the 1940s. The government was a totalitarian one run by the Communist Party. Although there was a structure to the government that made it seem as though it were run by a committee of people, in fact they took orders from Stalin when he wanted things his way. Stalin's control of the secret police and his willingness to eliminate anyone who contradicted him made him the dictator we remember his as today.
Hitler - totalitarian, authoritarian, nationalist. Stalin - totalitarian, authoritarian.
The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was considered to be Totalitarian because of the oppressive conditions the citizens of Russia had to live in. Many people were killed or sent to Gulags under Stalin's rule, and propaganda was widespread. For more info on Stalin, read Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations.
Totalitarian government, no parliament during reign, secret police...