Joseph Stalin comes to power in the Soviet Union
Definition
Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924. He transformed the country from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower through a series of Five-Year Plans. His rule was marked by mass repression, purges, forced labor, collectivization of agriculture, and famine.
Related terms
Five-Year Plans: A series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union created under Joseph Stalin for rapid industrialization.
Great Purge: A campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938 where millions were persecuted and executed on suspicion of being "enemies of the people".
Collectivization: A policy implemented by Joseph Stalin to integrate individual landholdings and labor into collectively-controlled agricultural units called kolkhoz and sovkhoz.
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