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How Did Joseph Stalin Come To Power

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The Soviet Union, a Communist government in the falsehood of being controlled by a dictator named Stalin. During his reign of terror on the Russian people, he was forcing them to form a cult for him, “Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Union,” (History.com). When Stalin came to power after the death of Lenin, he began wiping out those who he did not trust. Mostly they were military leaders, which he killed a lot of them in the Great Purge. If you do not know what the Great Purge was, it was an order which Stalin giving to kill off most of the higher ups in the military for being suspected as a threat to his rule. (Add quote for the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union): While he killed off …show more content…

He also began rewriting all the history books to show himself as the most important person of the Communist Revolution, which brought down Capitalism in the Soviet Union. Stalin also changed names of cities, like the city of Stalingrad and having his picture be put up everywhere in the Soviet Union. He wanted all people to love him and worship him like their savior. Stalin also wanted all the industrial and agriculture production to be controlled by him, “His development plan was centered on government control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of the farms,” (History.com). When he put this plan to action, a lot of farmers went against this plan and wanted to keep their farms. But, that did not stop Stalin from taking their farms forcefully away from the farmers. After taking their farms, Stalin sent them into exile out of the Soviet Union or to the Gulag to be put in forced labor camps. It was a cruel life in the Soviet Union, everyone must work or have their families and themselves be killed off for going against Stalin’s

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