ut him at the helm of Russia as the supreme and undisputed ruler. In order to fully secure his position, he ordered any government supporters of Lenin and his ideas to be murdered.
Stalin wanted a communist society where the basic needs were available to all citizens without exploitation by one dominant class. In order to achieve this, he would have to reorganize the industrial and agricultural practices within the Soviet Union. Stalin's first steps to doing this were introduced in the form of 5-year plans, or Piatiletkas. These 5-year plans replaced the New Economic Policy (NEP) instituted by Vladimir Le
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