Compare and contrast Lenin and Stalin?

Answer 1

Vladimir Lenin

• Was a communist
• Believed in Dictatorship
• Was also a totalitarian
• Was very hard working and modest
• Was cruel by most standards, used executions and traditional styles to mantain power
• Eliminated threats and opposition
• Was an imperialist
• Was aetheist.

Joseph Stalin

• Was a racist
• Was also a communist
• Also believed in dictatorship
• Was accordingly more power-hungry
• Was a totalitarian
• Was selfish to a degree
• Was more cruel (most peopel will agree), using them in larger scales and included racism.
• Also eliminated all threats and opposition
• Stalin had no confirmed imperialist demands, however, he did want to re-capture many USSR lands lost in the First World War.
• Was also an aetheist, beleieving like Lenin religion corrupted a country.

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler V.S Vladimir Lenin

Creation of a party within a government:

National Socialist Party 1919

The Social Democratic Party

Using Economics to gain support:

New Economic Policy 1921

Employment Miracle: 1939

Revolutions:

Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923)

1917 Revolutions (April, July, September, October)

Using weakness of previous government:

Weimar Republic after 1929 Wall street crash

Provisional Government's weakness in authority

Answer 3

Well,

1. they both wanted a strong military government.

and

2. They both wanted more living space for their people.

Answer 4

Similarities between Stalin and Lenin were they were both Bolsheviks wanting to make a communist state in Russia.