Joseph Stalin gained absolute power in 1928 after overcoming struggles with rivalry communist members after the death of the previous Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Stalin had come up with five year plans to help transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower. The main idea of his plan was forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, where the government took complete ownership of the farms. Of course, this was not done peacefully, where farmers where shot immediately when refused to cooperate. The forced collectivization resulted in a extensive famine throughout the soviet union, that killed millions of people.
Stalin not only followed Lenin’s example of terrorism against citizens, but he exceeded Lenin’s