StalinEssay title: StalinA totalitarian regime is one in which the leader has complete control over everything that goes on within the state. There are no independent institutions, and no other parties besides the party that is ruling the state. The leader of the regime must be charismatic to win the approval of the people and convince them that everything is running smoothly in the government. Totalitarian leaders often have a secret police that will terrorize and kill people if asked by the leader. A totalitarian government must be a strong one. Anyone that is suspected of being able to cause an uprising or rebellion must be put down immediately. A totalitarian state must have an exclusionist ideology, or an “us or them” ideology. Everyone is either on your side or against you, and if they are against you they must be eliminated as soon as possible. The government must also control the education system and the media. This ensures that children will grow up being in favor of your ideologies, and no one will receive any information
from the media that the leader does not want them to. The last quality that a totalitarian regime must have is putting the state before the citizens who live in. Everything must be done for the good of the state. Joseph Stalin exemplified all of these characteristics in his totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1940. (Pauley 1)
Stalins economic goals are a good example of his totalitariancharacteristics. He tried to gain more control over the nation by using collectivization, which is turning all farms over to government control. The Kulaks, or successful peasant farmers, were forced to turn their farms over to the government. Kulaks that resisted were either shot, or sent to work camps in Siberia. Stalins regime attempted to eliminate those who were not helping with his economic goals, such as the handicapped. He has a “if you dont work, you dont eat” mentality. He also eliminated any chance of rebellion by eliminating all of the educated people in his nation. Stalins enemies included opportunists, capitalists, the clergy, rightists, the middle class (bourgeoisie), rivals, and nationalists. (Pauley 152)
KULBANISH WESTERN AFFILIATION
In 1918, Stalinism swept through Russia and the Soviet Union.
In 1940, Stalinism defeated his own Party and formed a “Democratic-democratic International” (DAI). He is an avid proponent of the notion of a socialist Europe, as well as the idea of a “Western Europe.” It’s interesting when you consider what he is trying to accomplish in order to achieve a post-Cold War, totalitarian European order:
The State will remain a Communist dictatorship as long as the proletariat in its movement prevails, and the State will continue as its party. To this end, it will support the proletariat and support the bourgeoisie and protect the right of the people in the movement to organize, strike, and to demand the expulsion of its officers, workers, and the general mass of unemployed and disorganized peasants. To this end, the State will support the peasant masses, support the peasants, and support their demands, so long as they maintain the rank and file.
And as we all know, Stalinism is the enemy of the people as well.
“State socialism” is a way of trying to eliminate class conflict and to give the workers democratic forms of control over their destinies and the conditions for their liberation.
In other words:
The entire nation of the country will be transformed into a government of “Socialist Democracy”—an “Antifascist,” since the people of today will be the people only state of state.
The whole country, once a great Soviet State, will become a “socialist nation.”
The whole nation will become a “communist nation.”
Everyone will be the country’s “super-revolutionary” representative and “super-Communist.”
The nation will become one great national force and a universal mass party.
All the people of the Communist Party will be free to form revolutionary forces and committees, and, if necessary, unite and fight against the Stalinist Party and all the bourgeois-democratic organizations. This would enable such an organisation – an internationalist “Great Organised General Army” or “National Organized General Army”—to create a revolutionary movement, such as the one of “Socialist Republic” or of “Communist Empire.”
It is very doubtful that he ever planned to create a “Communist, internationalist, and national army,” because he is so enamoured of the Soviet Union and its “great” achievements that he would not hesitate to go along with what he thought most of the popular support or “popular support” at the time was for the regime of “Lenin.”
At the time of Stalin’s birth he was a huge proponent of the idea that an army of revolutionaries could be organized over the entire world, and an army under the government of the Soviet Union would be formed of well-educated peasants, middle-class peasants, or workers.
In the end, only a tiny fraction of the population could have a “revolution
Stalin got rid of his enemies be carrying out a series of purges. He did this in stages, one in 1934 and another in 1938. This was to let the population build back up in between. (Pauley 152) Many of the purges were against Stalins own party members whom he felt threatened by. To make it look like these people were being arrested for a legitimate reason, Stalin gave them show trials. The accused were not given lawyers, were tortured, and not allowed to sleep until they made a confession. Ninety-nine percent of the people who were arrested were convicted, and either sentenced to jail, work camps, or killed. (Pauley 154-155)
Stalin also did not trust his military. He carried out a series of military