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Joseph Stalin — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1878–1953 · Soviet Union · General Secretary

Joseph Stalin

Socialism in one country

Total state, five-year plans, terror.

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Governance+98
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The dictator who turned Lenin's state into a totalitarian command economy through forced collectivisation, industrial drives and mass terror.

social

Modernist-industrial in rhetoric; ruthlessly anti-traditional and anti-clerical.

economic

Forced collectivisation and central planning; total state ownership.

governance

Absolute totalitarian rule sustained by purges, gulags and a cult of personality.

Notable for
  • Forced collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans
  • The Great Purge
  • Soviet victory in WWII
central-planningtotalitarianismcult-of-personality
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