... most common viewpoint is that he did it with his bombardment of propaganda; fear of punishment and as system of rewards and incentives. At the time the majority of factory workers were still young and impressionable, still intoxicated by the communist theory. Many were willing to suffer a "few years of hardship for the ... any cost. This period is called the Great Terror or the Great Purges. He felt insecure; people were questioning his leadership, his intentions and his rule over a totalitarian government. There is evidence that more than half the people killed by Stalin's secret polic...

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• Grade Level: High School

... was the second solution that he came to regret. War Communism was brutal, inefficient and total. During the desperate period of the Civil War, Lenin enforced great hardship upon the majority of peasantry of Russia-the economy relied heavily upon agriculture-by pursuing a policy of War Communism which ruthlessly enforced state control of all industry, by ending private trading and the ... over all the boring unglamorous jobs that no one else wanted, believing that the route to power was through support from the Soviet Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The party had complete rule. If he had i...

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• Grade Level: High School

... committee of the party, in 1919. He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). Stalin gained popularity through his humble attitude, by siding with the majority, and by using his opponents against one another. He would help one of his competitors oust a common enemy, and then Stalin would replace that person with one of his own ... supporters. Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). Stalin's rule was brutal and his power was absolute. He began forced collectivization and industrialization programs in 19...

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• Has Bibliography
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... the Germans, there is no doubt in my mind that Yugoslavia would have been behind the "Iron Curtain" like the rest of the communist states for the majority of the cold war. Under the rule of Tito however, things would not work out the way the Soviets had planned. Using his natural charisma and impressive war record, Josip Tito was able to ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... committee of the party, in 1919. He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). Stalin gained popularity through his humble attitude, by siding with the majority, and by using his opponents against one another. He would help one of his competitors oust a common enemy, and then Stalin would replace that person with one of his own ... supporters. Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). Stalin's rule was brutal and his power was absolute. He began forced collectivization and industrialization programs in 19...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School