In this chapter you will read about Stalin and Stalinism. Specifically, consider the following questions:

1. How did Stalin manage to gain total power in the Soviet state after Lenin’s death?
2. What were Stalin’s primary strategies in his movement toward total and absolute power?
3. What were the psychological characteristics of the generations of people born at the turn of the century and those born in the 1920s?
4. How did Stalin use social psychology to manipulate Soviet public opinion?