The Stalin Era

In the beginning Communism seemed to the people of Russia as a utopian ideal. The promise of the elimination of classes, of guaranteed employment, “The creation of a comprehensive social security and welfare system for all citizens that would end the misery of workers once and for all.” Lenin’s own interpretation of the Marxian critique was that to achieve Communism there would first have to be a socialist dictatorship to first suppress any dissent …

…seemed that when Stalin first started out as leader of Russia, he truly had Lenin’s ideology in mind for a truly successful and competent socialist society; but once the taste of power was in his mouth, he had to have more and would have more by way of any means possible. Stalin made several industrial improvements for his country but that does not even begin to equal the death and destruction that he caused.