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First of all, Stalin was highly right-wing. Stalin outmanuevered "internationalist" Trotsky in 1929 (who was later to be assassinated in Mexico). One of Stalin's most important acts was the Five-Year Plans; this was government organized economics which were based on Trotsky's plan on economic planning. It's aim was to make self-sufficiency, and self preservation. This came at a cost however; because heavy industry was concentrated on instead of consumer goods, consumers still didn't benefit form the 5 year plans. Stalin then enabled Collectivization. All this added to a huge amount of economic growth which certainly aided the USSR prior to WWII.
2ndly, the purges. The assasination of Serge Kirov in 1934 was the excuse to start purging. He began killing off the "Old Bolsheviks" led by Bukharin, "Trotskyites", and the military (50% of officers above rank of captain killed; this was a backlash in WWII b/c there were no experienced officers).
Stalin's high point came at WWII; he managed to push them out with millions of Red Army soldiers, and made the farthest Russian presence in Europe EVER. (Only Catherine the Great had made the largest Russian empire before this; though these were buffer states). Though starting the Cold War with the detonation of the Atomic Bomb, he still made the USSR strong.
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When Joseph Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union he turned it into a what type of government?
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Joseph Stalin changed Russia into a state?
totalitarian
Russian ruler who organized a totalitarian state during the 1930's?
Stalin
Was Stalin the Soviet state's first Marxist leader?
No, Vladimir Lenin was the Soviet state's first Marxist leader.
Was Hitler a totalitarian?
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.
Who was the Russian ruler in the 1930s who organized a totalitarian state?
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.
Identify ONE key trait of a totalitarian state. How did Stalin use the weapons of totalitarianism to force that trait onto Soviet society?
By using police terror, destroying enemies of Stalin, monitoring telephone lines, reading mail, and planting informants.
When Joseph Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union he turned it into a what type of government?
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Joseph Stalin changed Russia into a state?
totalitarian
Russian ruler who organized a totalitarian state during the 1930's?
Stalin
Who succeeded Lenin as a dictator and established a totalitarian state in the USSR?
Joseph Stalin
What individual freedoms are denied in totalitarian state?
the soviet unoin
Where was Josef Stalin from?
He was from the Soviet state of Georgia.
Was Stalin the Soviet state's first Marxist leader?
No, Vladimir Lenin was the Soviet state's first Marxist leader.
Was Hitler a totalitarian?
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.
Russian ruler who organized the totalitarian state?
Joseph Dugashvilli, better known as Stalin.
Who becamw the leader of the newly formed Soviet Union after Lenin died?
After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin emerged as the leader of the newly formed Soviet Union. He gradually consolidated power by outmaneuvering rivals, such as Leon Trotsky, and implemented policies that transformed the Soviet state. Stalin's leadership marked the beginning of a totalitarian regime characterized by extensive political repression and rapid industrialization.
