Sadly the answer is many millions. The regime in the USSR under Stalin is rivalled only by the Nazis in their inhuman teatment of people under their jurisdiction.
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
Hitler was a dictator, he wanted the throne to be only his. while Stalin wanted Russia to be a democratic country.
Stalin’s rule in the USSR was clearly totalitarian, but he didn’t establish it as much as continue with the existing system that he took over.
The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
Sadly the answer is many millions. The regime in the USSR under Stalin is rivalled only by the Nazis in their inhuman teatment of people under their jurisdiction.
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
Siberia
Many of the Mongol conquerers of Russia settled in their new country. Eventually they became known as Tatars and lived in the Crimea. Joseph Stalin found them to be objectionable and they were persecuted and displaced under Stalin's regime.
Hitler was a dictator, he wanted the throne to be only his. while Stalin wanted Russia to be a democratic country.
Stalin’s rule in the USSR was clearly totalitarian, but he didn’t establish it as much as continue with the existing system that he took over.
Joseph V. Stalin and Leon Trotsky
Is the struggle of liberalism and constitutionalism justifiable?why?
Is the struggle of liberalism and constitutionalism justifiable?why?
Vladimir Lenin advanced the idea of communism to the people of Russia promising them that they would be better off under a communist regime than under the Czarist regime. The revolution was driven by political forces, not by the economic ones that Marx theorized about. Lenin did not abolish state government although Marx saw communism as a society without a government or even a need for one. After Lenin, Stalin made the government even more powerful and oppressive than had been the Czarist regime. Lenin and Stalin sold communism to the Russian people, however after the Russian people paid the price for that communism, neither Lenin nor Stalin delivered the promised product.
The Jews slathered them
Constitutionalism