In 1922, the Communists produced a constitution that sounded both democratic and socialist. It set up an elected legislature called the Supreme Soviet and gave all citizens over eighteen the right to vote. All political power, resources, and means of production would belong to the workers and peasants. However the Communist party not the people, reigned supreme. Like the czars before them, the party used the army and secret police to enforce its will. The new government brought much of the old Russian empire under its rule. It then created the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (Krieger, Larry, Neill, Kenne

own shrines such as a tomb of Lenin. Portraits of Stalin replaced religious icons in Russian homes (Smith 22).

Stalin set out to make the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power. Stalin blamed Russia's economic backwardness for its many defeats. In 1928 he proposed the first several

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