During Stalin's command of the USSR, his economic achievements were nothing short of remarkable. Rapid industrialisation and restructuring of agricultural arrangements was the basis of his own economic revolution for the Soviet Union in which the formerly technologically backward and economically inefficient nation would become a world superpower. However, during the quarter of a century of Stalin's dictatorial rule (between 1928 and 1953), the hundreds of millions of people whose lives he dominated in the Soviet Union were forced to suffer the many dire consequences of this success: famine in the Ukraine; squalid living conditions accompanied overcrowded urban centres; and an effectively complete lack of freedom (in terms of migration and in terms of private ownership of land) was in place for almost all of the population.

In 1928, following a turbulent decade of revolution, war and the instigation of a completely new political and economic system, Joseph Stalin came to power. He was forced to contemplate how to create a strong, self-reliant

"Nero too was, like Stalin, a product of his age. Yet when he perished his statues were smashed and his name was everywhere effaced. The vengeance of history is more powerful than the most powerful General-Secretary. I venture to think this is consoling," (Trotsky, quoted in Baker: 1990, 62).

Collins English Dictionary, 1994, HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow.

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