In the twentieth century, when thinking of a dictatorship, the name of Joseph Stalin has become synonymous with this term. There has been no other ruler that has used such ruthless and has had the ability to triumph and maintain power against all odds. From his rise to power in 1928 until his death twenty five years later, in 1953, Stalin used an iron fist to control the Soviet Union and its people. During his rule he transformed the Soviet Union from a relatively economic backward nation that was still trying to recover from the effects of the Russian Revolution, in to a military juggernaut that would challenge the United States for global superiority. For all this to happen there were massive blows to the people of USSR. Was Stalin a madman or closer to genius? Was his tactics of ruling a nation with an iron grip right just and fair?
             Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli was born in Georgia in 1879. He was born into a peasant family like most of the population of the USSR prior to the revolution of 1917. By the year 1905 Stalin had become an enthusiastic revolutionary and a member of a small Russian Communist party. In 1912, he began to sign his name "Stalin" which meant "Man of Steel," and in the next five years he had been arrested at last seven times by the czar's police for involvement in "revolutionary activities". This would form the mold of a man that one day would be praised by some and feared by most ad become one of the most fascist dictators in the earths history.
             When the Czar was forced to abdicate the thrown in February, 1917, a provisional government was set up to govern Russia until elections could happen later that year. Those elections never happened and in October or 1917 the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (a branch of the Communist Party). The Bolsheviks were led by Lenin. They gained control of the country and enforced the implementation...