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Stalin used propaganda to convince people about his leadership, while pushing away the opinions of his opponents. It helped him to raise violent political emotions towards enemies. When doing this he was able to show the people only his "right" ideas and the enemies "wrong" ideas. This definitely helped him come to a lot of power.

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Stalin used his power to restrict personal freedoms, by doing this he was able to lead without the people being able to have much say. He demanded loyalty and denied basic liberties. He wanted the people to put Russia above anything else, even themselves.

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Due to Stalins controlled economy, Russia was growing cash crops to trade but not enough food for its people. Since majority of crops grown on the collectivization farms, were the cash crops that were gonna be sold; many people didn't have enough food to survive. Death tolls from starvation in the Soviet Union under Stalins rule, tallied up to be more people then Hitler had killed; about 8 million.

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Since Stalin wanted to modernize Russia, it left the country vulnerable on the Economic aspect. Even though this plan benefited the country in areas of modernization, it also left them in terrible place economically.

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WW1 had come to an end, but the blame and all the debt had to be figured out. Russia had to pull up before the end of the war, due to the fact that they had used so many resources and couldn't risk to lose more. After all they did to help they thought they would get help to regain strength, but no they didn't even get a seat on the panel who wrote the treat. This pulled them into a time of need and poverty.

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After the death of the powerful leader Lenin, Russia was left leaderless. This put them in a bad place because without a ruler their country would suffer. For the people he benefited, they were looking for someone just like Lenin to continue the same system. For those who didn't like Lenin's leadership, they wanted someone that could help their needs. With a weaken gov. and fighting over new leadership, this was the perfect time for Stalin to get his way into Russias government.

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Stalin took control over all individual farms, creating one large farm to grow cash crops on. This was called collectivization, and Stalin had complete control over the large farm. He used the money made by selling the cash crop to help move his 5 year plan along, a plan created to industrialize Russia in only 5 years, leaving little money for food.