| Kasz216 said: Stalin's dictatorship was not a dictatorship of one person. It was a dictatorship of the proletariat. AKA the workers party. |
Stalin was a one man dictatorship. Stalin killed tens of thousands of Communists he saw as threatening, both friends and enemies (including many of top military officers) and had all of the Soviet Union fearful to speak out against him. Even once big political time players, like Leon Trotsky, were forced out of Russia and later killed because he disagreed with Stalin. So calling Stalin Russia anything but a totalitarian, one-man dictatorship is inaccurate.
During the Russian Revolution up until Stalin, and afterwards from Krushchev to Gorbechov, Russia was a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' or more accurately the ten percent of the population that were Communist Party members who participated in the political process. An example of this more open political system being Kruschev, who rose to power but was later forced out when the Communist Party viewed him as too liberal. No one would even think about forcing Stalin out of power.
