Joseph Stalin was a dictator who ruled Russia in a reign of terror. He set up a command economy. A command economy was a system in which the government made all economic decisions. He set up a system of five-year plans for the development of the Soviet Union´s economy. These five year plans made high quotas, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity. The people who made these had to not produce common goods so some of them starved. He created collective farms which were farms that combined to produce food for the state. If people questioned him they would be punished, but most of the time they were killed. Joseph Stalin was considered to be crazy and killed anybody that he thought did not like him. He set up religious and educational rules about the communist party. Many people were killed during his reign of terror, and he died on March 5, 1953.
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