"Stalin inherited a system that resorted to violence and brutality and extended and deepened it." ... He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in turn directly responsible to Stalin. ...
"Stalin inherited a system that resorted to violence and brutality and extended and deepened it." ... He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in turn directly responsible to Stalin. ...
In 1920, the country of Japan was beginning to show outward signs that it was embarking on a path towards political modernization and a model of relatively liberal democracy. Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun to spring up at a greatly accelerate...
