... to power during 1924-1928? One can almost imagine Joseph Stalin smiling at his people, happy for once in his life as people celebrated in shabby public squares around bronze majestic ... terms of popularity. He, firstly, became popular through projecting Cult of Lenin philosophy, as discussed before. In addition to the Cult of Lenin propaganda, Stalin also never went against Lenin's philosophies unlike his rivals. His popularity won huge gains through this. And thirdly, he gained even more popularity by ... support of "socialism in one country". People supported him immensely and gaine...

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... a step towards the end of the government. In a communist state the abuse of power has grown so that government control is necessary to the wa! y that society works. Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin continued with this abuse of power. He illustrates an amazing example of the way in which a totalitarian government that is supposedly communist is not even remotely close to what Marx ... had in mind. Stalin exercised the ultimate in absolute power, with complete, and deliberate, disregard for even the lives of his own people. Millions of peasants died during Stalin's time in office. Politic...

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... communist reforms it came back to haunt him after his death when it was proved that the proper communist base had not been implemented which allowed as horrible a leader as Joseph Stalin to come into power and torment his nation. Marx believed that in a communist society everyone would work hard and everyone would get a piece of the pie, "From him according to ... his abilities, to him according to his needs." But this did not happen in the Soviet Union. Since Stalin was the sole party leader he controlled all means of production but he did not distribute the goods evenly. This led to w...

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