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The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
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Answers for life under Stalin?
describe Stalin response to this disobedience
What did Stalin and tuman want for post-war Europe?
Stalin wanted to keep the countries he defeated. He wanted them to become part of communist USSR. Truman and Churchill wanted him to give them up and let them have peace and freedom. Stalin was not having it their way. He kept them and they were under communist rule for nearly fifty years.
Could Stalin have industrialized under Lenin's New Economic Policy or did he have to abandon it?
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
Was there constitutionalism under Stalin regime?
No. He was a dictator that killed millions of people under his regime.
Why totalitarian policy did the Soviet Union enact under Joseph Stalin?
Arresting and executing citizens who were suspected of disloyalty to Stalin
What was the name of the secret police under the Tsars?
The earliest Soviet secret police was the Cheka. This was a shortened form of the word "Vecheka" which was an acronym for the Russian word for the "All-Russian Extraordinary Committee Committee to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage."
How and why were Russian communism become totalitarianism under Stalin?
They were in the pryamid in russia that did not tolorate teh stailin religious rule
What preceded the KGB?
Before the Russian Revolution the state security was called the Okhranka. Under Lenin that task was called the Cheka. It underwent several name changes OGPU, NKGB, MGB and then the MVD. It is currently called the FSB, with the foreign branch as the SVR.
What four letter acronym were the secret police force called in Stalin's time?
KGB was the acronym for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security, The State security agency in the former Soviet Union.
What happened to the farms under Stalin?
The Jews slathered them
How did Stalin's five year plans differ from lenins new economic policy?
Stalin instituted the Five-Year Plans in order to quickly generate capital for, and ensure the Soviet Unionâ??s economic strength in case of, another World War. One of Stalinâ??s signature moves was to reinstate state control of the farming system which had been decentralized under Leninâ??s New Economic Policy. Stalin also wished to return the Soviet economy to the policy of Bolshevism, or a nationalized, communist economy which had been eroded under Lenin's NEP.
Answers for life under Stalin?
describe Stalin response to this disobedience
Why were 20 million Soviet citizens imprisoned under Stalin?
suspected of opposing stalin
How nazi Germany similar to the Soviet Union under Stalin?
Generally speaking both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin were dictatorships that permitted no free speech or other political parties to exist. In Germany only the Nazi Party was legal and under Stalin only the Communist Party under the rule of Stalin was allowed.
How was nazi Germany similar to Soviet Union under Stalin?
Generally speaking both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin were dictatorships that permitted no free speech or other political parties to exist. In Germany only the Nazi Party was legal and under Stalin only the Communist Party under the rule of Stalin was allowed.
Why do you remember Joseph Stalin?
Russia under the rule of Joseph Stalin was the most powerful in its history.
How was the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin control?
It was a dictatorship. Stalin was kinda like Hitler.
