Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Lenin's New Economic Policy temporarily restored the market economy and was the biggest change during his rule over the USSR.
Propaganda like the one from Lenin above helped persuade citizens to jump on board with nationalism and Lenin's NEP.
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Joseph Stalin replaced Lenin's New Economic Policy with the First Five Year Plan that eventually transformed Russia's agrarian economy into an industrialized communist power.
A map of the Soviet Union during Stalin's time, as the former Russian empire was industrializing into a world superpower under his rule.
Propaganda like this picture above helped enforce Soviet citizens to join in towards programs like Stalin's collectivization of agriculture.
Stalin's Great Purge eliminated all possible members of opposition to the Communist Party through political genocide, therefore establishing a direct route to communist dominance over the Soviet Union.
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Joseph Stalin
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Vladimir Lenin
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Joseph Stalin
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