Totalitarianism is when the government or someone has total control over a state, country, and city, ect. Joseph Stalin was a totalitarian. He had total control over Russia. He first was promoted as Secretary General of the Communist party. From there he was against Trotsky for power. He allied himself with Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev. But Stalin now turned against Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev and allied with Nicolai Bukharin in order to get rid of Trotsky. They succeeded, Trotsky got run out of Russia, he was later found found in Mexico were he was murdered. Joseph Stalin had an idea on how to industrialize Russia. Russian was about a hundred years behind other advanced countries. So Stalin decided to put the five-year plan into action. Basically everybody has to work about 2 times harder. In order to catch up with the rest of the countries. The poor and dangerous working conditions caused many deaths. Most of the complexes built for the five-year plan were built by slaves who were sentenced there for crimes they didn’t commit. About 3.7 million people were sentenced for counter-revolutionary crimes. About 6.7 million were put to death, 0.7 were expatriated and 2.7 million were forced to go to camps (which were called the Gulag) the majority of the people sentenced to camp ended up dieing. This just shows the amount of power Totalitarianism gives somebody.
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