During the early twentieth century in Europe, totalitarianism was a popular form of government. Totalitarianism is when people are servants of the government. Also, in a totalitarian government people have no say in what goes on around them. State control of the economy is one of the elements of totalitarianism, where the government controls the production and distribution of products to citizens. Terrorism is used by a totalitarian government to put fear into citizens so that they listen to what the government says. Censorship allows the government to control what is said in newspapers and history textbooks so that the people feel a certain way about what has happened and what is currently happening in a society. Mussolini, Hitler, …show more content…
The goal of his five-year plan was to advance businesses within government while controlling steel and coal within the Soviet Union, making them a richer nation. Stalin raised his already high expectations for his workers and lowered their pay even more. Positive hardworking workers would be given medals from Stalin, promoting obedient hard working citizens. Stalin also made private family farms public farms for communities to work collectively on the farms if people resisted Stalin would starve their community which lead to a massive death within towns. Stalin was proven to be the most totalitarian leader due to his ability to control the production and distribution of products. Although Hitler tried to be the most totalitarian leader, he was not successful due to his inability to control the distribution of products throughout Germany. Hitler had control of what products were made, but he would not have been able to cut people off from goods if they were found to be disloyal, therefore making Stalin the most totalitarian leader. Stalin’s five-year plan shows his totalitarian beliefs through state control of the economy, but the great purges will show more about Stalin’s totalitarian beliefs through