Stalin Questions

1.) Stalin had a masterful control over manipulation and used whatever his position may have been in the government to turn people against one another as well as constantly forming and breaking alliances.
2.)Stalin had hoped to industrialize Russia through programs such as new railways as well as initiating collectivized farming. Stalin also wanted to kill all those he perceived as enemies of Russia such as Kulaks and political opponents.
3.) Stalin would constantly pit one person against another until he was the last one remaining and thus constant increased his power over the government.
4.) Stalin's rule can be called a totalitarian regime to the fullest extent of the definition of the word. The Soviet government under Stalin was notorious for the outright murder of civilians and all those that opposed Stalin.
5.) The judicial system under Stalin had a habit of setting up dummy-trials in order to "convict" all those against Stalin of sabotage and were immediately put in the hands of the military. 

6.) Force was used on opponents that Stalin feared would not be effectively dealt with at trials. Secret police were mobilized and sent to assassinate upper level political opponents.

7.) Stalin tried to set the Soviet Union into the modern industrialized era.

8.) Any person or group that was in any way suspected of turning against Stalin was immediately shipped of to Siberia or other gulags. Stalin's secret police ensured that many people were much too paranoid to attempt any serious resistance.  

9.) Stalin had complete control over any lower political positions and was free to do simply as he wished.

10.) Stalin greatly pushed any Western expansion that eventually covered parts of Finland, the Baltic States, and Ukraine.

11.) Stalin was known for the mass censorship of anything that did not portray the Soviet Union in a positive light. this included all major forms of media. One of Stalin's positive notes being that women were allowed to exhibit many of the same policies as men in terms of working.

12.) Stalin actively persecuted religious leaders as religion went against the theory of Communism

13.) While Stalin may have built many more schools, especially in rural areas, and offered a larger opportunity of education, all schools were forced to teach along party lines.

14.) Artists were only allowed to create works that depicted life as good under Soviet rule, as this was part of the censorship that Stalin used. 

15.) During Stalin's rule, artists were hired to go back and remove people from photographs in order to alter their historical importance. Stalin used this in order to increase his popularity. 

16.) Women were no longer bound to the restrictions they were in other areas of the world. Women could now go out and work along side men and earn the same amount. The expectation of women being nothing more than mothers and housewives was reversed. 

17.) Religious groups and minorities were sent to gulags as they were seen as a threat to the Soviet Union by Stalin.