Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism
Joseph Stalin was a powerful dictator that was born on 1879 and died in 1953. He was also known to be a very disciplined leader because of the way he controls and treats the Soviet people.
Stalin was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He was the only man that helped and improved the Soviet regime and also helped organized Europe after the World War II has ended in 1945. When Lenin died, a struggle on the leaders happened in Russia. And when this happened Stalin saw how completely different Russia had become. He saw how people were fighting and struggling on their lives due to poverty and low leadership in their country. When he realized how these things completely changed the way the Russians were and how they lived, he was determined to transform the Soviet Union into a powerful industrial state.
This became a part of the reasons why he started to launched his first five-year plan in 1928. His plan was about two goals.
Stalin wanted rapid growth of heavy industry and increased in farm production through collectivization of agriculture. In these plans he used a lot of the nation's resources into building electric power stations, steel mills, and other industries that were needed. But this caused a major effect on the Soviet agriculture because this plan caused a widespread of food shortage throughout the nation of Russia. And it was very hard for the Russians because they have less food to eat. It also mostly affected the peasants because they were forced to give up their land and work on farms and other large enterprises. And the ones who opposed and did not follow to his orders were eventually killed in which these things are examples of forced communism that had happened because of his plans and strategies.
Stalin still wanted to achieve his goals, so then he created a new kind of government, which is called a totalitarian state. In a totalitarian state, the government is a single-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens and that the rights of the people count for nothing. In this kind of government the people in Russia should follow without question and that they are forced to be silenced. Totalitarian state also supports nationalism; and Stalin decided to use propaganda, censorship, and terror to force his commands on the Soviet people. He also used a secret police to spy on the people who refused to follow him and that they will face huge punishment and even death possibly. This was known as The Great Purges.
Stalin and Lenin were mostly the leaders that supported the idea of a world communist revolution.
These years were very hard, uncertain, and difficult for the Soviets because they are forced to obey even if they don't like to. I believe that Stalin was a leader that ruled in a complex way and is very difficult to withstand by the people in Russia at that time. And his ideas and ways are powerful examples on how an unorganized country became a very disciplined country that brought pain and hardships that were forced to faced by the Russians.
Stalin was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He was the only man that helped and improved the Soviet regime and also helped organized Europe after the World War II has ended in 1945. When Lenin died, a struggle on the leaders happened in Russia. And when this happened Stalin saw how completely different Russia had become. He saw how people were fighting and struggling on their lives due to poverty and low leadership in their country. When he realized how these things completely changed the way the Russians were and how they lived, he was determined to transform the Soviet Union into a powerful industrial state.
This became a part of the reasons why he started to launched his first five-year plan in 1928. His plan was about two goals.
Stalin wanted rapid growth of heavy industry and increased in farm production through collectivization of agriculture. In these plans he used a lot of the nation's resources into building electric power stations, steel mills, and other industries that were needed. But this caused a major effect on the Soviet agriculture because this plan caused a widespread of food shortage throughout the nation of Russia. And it was very hard for the Russians because they have less food to eat. It also mostly affected the peasants because they were forced to give up their land and work on farms and other large enterprises. And the ones who opposed and did not follow to his orders were eventually killed in which these things are examples of forced communism that had happened because of his plans and strategies.
Stalin still wanted to achieve his goals, so then he created a new kind of government, which is called a totalitarian state. In a totalitarian state, the government is a single-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens and that the rights of the people count for nothing. In this kind of government the people in Russia should follow without question and that they are forced to be silenced. Totalitarian state also supports nationalism; and Stalin decided to use propaganda, censorship, and terror to force his commands on the Soviet people. He also used a secret police to spy on the people who refused to follow him and that they will face huge punishment and even death possibly. This was known as The Great Purges.
Stalin and Lenin were mostly the leaders that supported the idea of a world communist revolution.
These years were very hard, uncertain, and difficult for the Soviets because they are forced to obey even if they don't like to. I believe that Stalin was a leader that ruled in a complex way and is very difficult to withstand by the people in Russia at that time. And his ideas and ways are powerful examples on how an unorganized country became a very disciplined country that brought pain and hardships that were forced to faced by the Russians.
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