Opinions of Lenin and Stalin
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Opinions
Of Lenin and Stalin
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin are arguably two of the most infamous and significant leaders in the history of the Soviet Union. Both of these men had very similar characteristics, such as being eager, smart, and ruthless people.
They were both extremely patriotic, and possessed a strong love and want for improvement in the USSR. Lenin and Stalin practiced the beliefs of Karl Marx, that history is dominated by class struggle and revolution. Both of these leaders, however, chose different ways of ruling the people of the Soviet Unioniversestinct. For example, Lenin was willing to compromise and change policies for the people while Stalin was more difficult from a communication standpoint. He was stubborn averse to make any type of compromise. Although Lenin and Stalin had similar leadership qualities and beliefs, dLenin was more effective at communicating with the people and consequently imprintedeffecting a more positive legacy on Russia.
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Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin possessed characteristics and beliefs that overlapped almost identically. For example, both were socialisMarx. They believed in a one party state so that they could gain and maintain total consolidated control of all of the peoples of Russia In Lenin’s Thesis on the Constituent Assembly, he advocates very heavily for the use of dictatorship:
For the transition from the bourgeois to the socialist system, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Republic of Soviets is not only a higher type of democratic institution, but is the only form capable of securing the most painless transition to socialism; …(Thesis on the Constituent Assembly, 419)
Lenin dismissed the Constituent Assembly for the reason of trying to maintain control. He and his fellow Bolsheviks were fearful that this new government would remove them from power and go forward with creating a constitutional democracy.
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