September 2011
Camila Restrepo Reyes
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Stalin’s regime
Stalin’s Regime was a communist and totalitarian regime, based on the Marxism-Leninism ideologies. Stalin established certain policies, which intended to improve Russia. These policies included, having a centralized state, reducing agriculture and having a rapid industrialization and the Socialism In One Country Theory, which consisted on saying that as Russia was the only communist country that wasn’t defeated in Europe, the Soviet Union should have strengthen itself internally.
In the first image we can see the communist sign, next to the Russian flag. Although we can see these signs in the background the image that mostly gets our attention is the picture of Stalin. During his government he was a godlike leader to the people. He used propaganda and other sources to build up his image. It was some kind of religious cult.
In the second picture we can see a more artistic picture of him. He ordered artist such as musicians, painters, and writers, to do all of their works about him or the country, this way he raised his image. If the artist refused to help him they would be persecuted or purged.
After saying this we can now see how controller the state government was.
Stalin’s Regime had a very sever government. It had undercover police all over the country making sure everything was done as the state said. Education was free and mandatory and they had to teach the ideologies and what ever the government said they had to. Stalin’s was insecure so purges were held to make sure no body questioned his leadership. In one of his parties reunion one of the politicians, more exactly, Sergei Kirov, who changed sides and started criticizing and bringing into the light Stalin’s government weaknesses. When Stalin saw that Kirov was gaining power he killed Kirov to get back his power. After this he passed a law that declared that who ever questioned his leadership would be persecuted and purged.
Using fear and violence Stalin was able to gain power all over the country although many of the areas were weakened because of the loss of people caused by purges, he was able to maintain all of the state under his total control.
We can compare this Regime with the Nazis in Germany, commanded by Adolph Hitler. They both happened in the same period f time, more exactly between 1927 and 1930. They both used fear to obtain what they wanted and they had a totalitarian ideology.
