... or party including party members and army officers. Stalin ruled based on the writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto. His "power was maintained through the exercise of terror and monopolistic control of the means of communication throughout society"(Kershaw and Lewin). His policies also grew out of those of Lenin. But Stalin changed the way the system worked to better suit himself. He modified communism to give him ... little about the people and an example of this was the building of the "White Sea Canal" which he forced people into slave labor to build. An...

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