Joseph Stalin became the Soviet leader through a process. He was given his initial power by Lenin at his death. However, Lenin wanted Leon Trotsky to rule the Soviet Union. Stalin hid this fact. He then allied other leaders and isolated his main enemy, Leon Trotsky. He eventually succeeded in having Trotsky expelled from the party (and later the entire country), He then repeated the process to eliminate all threats until he was made the absolute ruller of the Soviet Union.
Arresting and executing citizens who were suspected of disloyalty to Stalin
Stalin’s rule in the USSR was clearly totalitarian, but he didn’t establish it as much as continue with the existing system that he took over.
Joseph Stalin did not create the Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin did that.
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Joseph Stalin
Arresting and executing citizens who were suspected of disloyalty to Stalin
Stalin’s rule in the USSR was clearly totalitarian, but he didn’t establish it as much as continue with the existing system that he took over.
Joseph Stalin did not create the Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin did that.
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.
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.
Communism as a vicious martial dictator.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
During World War 2, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin was the "totalitarian" leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, however he did not have dictatorial powers immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. It took Stalin until the mid 1930's before he had eliminated almost all of his equals in the Communist Party and installed people loyal to him personally in positions of power. Once he had done that he became the totalitarian leader that history remembers him as.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the Soviet leader responsible.