Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

Joseph Stalin was a strong leader. Joseph Stalin became a leader after Lenin's death. He wanted to gain control of the government. He also wanted to turn the Soviet Union into a powerful state. He also had many other goals. He wanted to turn the state into an powerful industry and also wanted to increase the production of civilization and farms. He also had a five year plan. The plan was to industrialize Russia. Well to achieve his goals he made a government called totalitarian. Then began totalarism . Totalarism is when someone has total control over something. Then came the great purges. It was from 1937-1938. He started the great Purges he wanted to eliminate all competitions. Entire cities were destroyed. Thousands of people were executed. Many died of diseases at that time.