During the twentieth century, Russia went through many significant changes to the structure of the country.The main reason for these changes were the influence of Stalin and Lenin and their fierce need to trick the public and inevitably inflict further consequences onto the country. Russia was brought into a new state of authoritarian and totalitarian government regimes. These regimes included many differences to characteristics of life in the country including government force, conditions of life and living standards, and impact to the country and surrounding alliances. The similarities between authoritarian and totalitarian governments are vast and nearly identical, yet differences are also experienced and can easily be seen through Lenin …show more content…
The well being and overall quality of life for citizens was sacrificed when government structure had changed. The common characteristics between authoritarian and totalitarian in this topic include severe poverty in communities due to government control and unfair rationing of resources. Also lack of proper education since the government puts focus on other things such as military strength. Lastly, extreme labour with inadequate pay is also often put in place with totalitarian and authoritarian governments because the government needs more resources than it can safely acquire in a short period of time. All of these traits can be seen strongly in both Lenin and Stalin's Russia. Stalin’s Russia was more forceful in pursuing these traits as can be seen with the purges taking place for anyone not properly following this rule of Russian society. In Lenin’s Russia, though dialed down, is still very prominent with citizens lives being neglected in order to better the state of the country. In both totalitarian and authoritarian governments, these factors are identical. Both forms of government put importance in the wellbeing of the country rather than the people in it and are prominently seen in both Lenin and Stalin's