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Used terror and violence to stop the opposition No privacy Great purge: campaign of terror. Eliminate whoever got in Stalins way Controlled all education. College professors and students who went against the communist party lost their jobs or faced imprisonment.
The Soviet Union Under Stalin (Russian) After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin gained control of the government. Stalin aimed to turn the Soviet Union into a powerful industrial state. He aimed at rapid growth of heavy industry and increased farm production. In a series of fiveyear plans, Many resources were poured into steel mills, electric power stations, and other industries needed in a strong modern state. He also forced millions of peasants to give up their land and work on collective farms, large, government-run enterprises. Many peasants opposed the change, and millions died. To achieve his goals, Stalin created a new kind of government, today called a
totalitarian state. In a totalitarian state, the government is a single-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens. They have no rights and must obey the government without question, critics are silenced. Also, the totalitarian state supports extreme nationalism. Government newspapers glorified work and Stalin himself. Secret police spied on citizens, and anyone who refused to praise Stalin and the state faced severe punishment, even death.
"counter-revolutionary" or "subversive" crimes. During the Great Terror, as many as 1 million people were executed for simply "opposing" Stalin's ideas and plans. Soviet state cultivated an extreme cult of personality around Stalin. Pictures of the dictator appeared at every street corner and in every building, including people's homes.