Essay: Stalin vs.

Lenin
Lenin and Stalin had been the most prominent and influential leaders
in the modern Soviet Union that share almost the same ideology to
lead and guide their nation, in order to get the most develop country
of the western hemisphere and fight against the whole crisis that
were going through most of the countries in that time. Although, both
leaders have differences between them, they differed in the way that
they ruled Russia like their position about the type of politic system
would they apply for restoring their country, socialism or communism.
In the present essay I will study and analyze, what are the differences
between the ideologies implemented in the government of Lenin and
Stalin in the Soviet Union, as we can see in the Prezi presentation of
Kyle Sellers, named Comparison and Contrast between Vladimir
Lenin and Joseph Stalin, in the first slide, he mentioned that Lenin
had a communist ideology while Stalin believed that Russia would be
better directed in a socialist way. In this essay it firsts will treat the
how the political and internal policies, of Stalin and Lenin, differ from
each other, making of this work importance for those who want to
know more about the contrast of both main characters in the Russian
history.
First of all, the main difference between Lenin and Stalin, is that Lenin
was directed by a communist way of view, that ideology was guided
by the theory of Karl Marx and Stalin followed the steps of Lenin but
he took it into a more develop step than Stalin step, perhaps, that
ideology was the final way of the direction of a country stablished
alike by Karl Marx, and it was the socialism. Lenin rose to power after
Russian society overthrew the czar. He took control of a democratic
republic. He was more of a socialist dictator. Though he practiced
some communist ideas, his ideology was more socialist hence the
name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin used socialist ideas to
have complete economic control on land and business. In the other
hand we have Stalin he established terror in Russia and marked the
Soviet Union history with the Great Purge. He rose to power after
Russian society had already been under a dictatorship for some time,
was a leader of the communist party. His radical ideas even led him
to eliminate people who shared his beliefs. Though Stalin maintained
economic control of the land in a socialist way, he used his
communist ideology to maintain his power violently. Stalin had in
consideration three unconscious specific points: a whole country,
urgency and paranoia. Whole country referring to the concept that
Russia had to be united, with him as leader, if it was to be strong.
Urgency because Stalin believed Russia had 10 years to catch up with
the western world before Germany invaded. Paranoia, became

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increasingly a constant fact in ussia (seeing plots everywhere) and

power-mad (he demanded continuous praise and applause). Stalin
started a project that consisted in a secret police called the NKVD, in
order to eliminate the traitors of the nation, Lenin did not apply this
project because he had a democracy thought in which everyone could
have their opinions but they need to follow what the road of the
country was.
For concluding the essay, we can mentioned that both leaders had a
goal to maintain absolute control over the land, society, economy,
and government but Stalin was the strongest dictator between them,
He took it socialism into another level, a level of terror that kept
increasing in that period, although, most of Russian population
support all the things that Stalin did in that time because of fear or
just because continue with the ideologies that leaded Russia to being
one of the most powerful country one the western hemisphere. This
grew from his paranoia and his desire to be absolute autocrat, and
was enforced via the NKVD and public 'show trials'. It developed into
a centrally-enforced 'cult of Stalin-worship', and a terrifying system of
labor camps directing Russia into another level of a good international
community view.

Bibliography:
Sellers Kyle (2013). Comparison and Contrast between Vladimir Lenin and
Joseph Stalin
Retrieved from: https://prezi.com/zqcn7tejsirr/comparison-and-contrastbetween-vladimir-lenin-and-joseph-stalin/

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