The rise of totaliarism

After the death of Lenin in the year 1924, Joseph Stalin gains the control of the government. He was determined to change the Soviet Union to an industrial State. In the year 1928, he created his first five-year plan. This plan consisted in two things: The rapid growth of industry and the increased of farm production. In the five-year plans, Stalin obeys the people to give up their land of work and farms. A lot of these peasants were opposed to the change, and they died.

Stalin had created a new kind of government. Nowadays, this new government is called “totalitarian state”. This government consists of a dictatorship that controlled the life of its citizens. Theses citizens had to obey the government and nobody had rights. There were secret police who spied the citizens. Anyone who refused to obey Stalin would be punished.


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