Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

The Soviet System Under Stalin (1x33)

Date de diffusion: Avr 06, 1998

With Lenin's death in 1924 and Stalin's triumph over Trotsky, the Soviet state was transformed. Forced industrialization and the coerced collectivization of agriculture were undertaken to serve the goal of "socialism in one country." By the close of the 1930s, Stalin and his secret police had created a regime based on bloody purges and pervasive terror.