Are Stalin's crimes a natural outgrowth of communist ideology and Lenin's revolution, or are they a perversion of those ideals?
2007-11-12 06:33:37 · 2 answers · asked by PWF 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They are a perversion of those Ideals, due to Stalin's reach for totalitarian power, and his paranoia of a rebellion. Stalin was actually responsible for all of his former comrades deaths except Lenin, and Stalin was actually last in the line of leadership of the original Bolshevik rebel leaders. Leon Trotsky was going to follow Lenin but Stalin ran him out of the country and took leadership.
Marxist Communism says nothing about mass purges within the populace. No country has really fulfilled Communistic Ideology, they have always fallen into something more sinister.
2007-11-12 06:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural outgrowth.
The government providing more services to people naturally requires the government to usurp more control over the lives of its citizens. When taken to such an extreme as in the Soviet Union, murder becomes a necessity.
2007-11-12 14:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by eat me hillary 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋