Question by will skate for nutella: What are the effects of Joseph Stalin ruling Russia/Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin at one point decided to rule Russia as a totalitarian state. I need to know what the effects of this were. As in how many people were killed (How and why), and other things that happened because of this. Thanks for any help at all. P.S. – I need sources.
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Answer by Dr. R
These are wonderful sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
http://www.johndclare.net/Russ10.htm
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Lisa L says
Lenin war moving towards shared governance with some private ownership of small farms and businesses, but Stalin created a true collective state where private ownership was not tolerated. This under cut natural incentives ( almost like all of us all getting points for the best answer, whiter we answer or not). Collective farming brought great displacement of peoples, starvation and death. In addition, the turmoil increased Stalin's paranoia. Twenty million killed, but who really knows? His alliance with Hitler led to more deaths than can be accurately counted, because it allowed Hitler to move unchecked in Europe until Hitler decided to attack Russia. Stalin, Mao Hitler, Pol Pot.. paranoid, self-absorbed, killers..