Russia in the 1930s

In Russia from the 1930s to 1928, Stalin exiled Trotsky and other leftist antagonists. For four years, Stalin took a big step from Lenin's collective leadership and free-factional debate and replaced his authoritarian dictatorship. By destroying the passive opposition of farmers and former Lenin supporters, Stalin began to gain control of the Communist Party and the State. He gained more and more support from the working class and they were impressed with the first five-year plan.

However, atrocities of Stalin in the 1930s were not known outside Russia. At that time, the memory of the Russian revolution was still fresh and continued to provide inspiration to the working classes around the world. Congress tried to promote its revolutionary image by accusing all other forces on the left as a traitor to the Bolshevik tradition. In the face of the victory of fascism in Germany and Italy, Stalin can become a true defender against extreme rights.

In the 1930's, Joseph Stalin held strategic powers in Communist Russia. In just a few years, he has transformed Russia from a Communist state to a totalitarian dictatorship. There are few people who choose to oppose Stalin, but those are arranged to enter Siberian work camps and gurags. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is one of a few people who chose to oppose Stalin and his totalitarian regime. He used the number of years spent at work camp to vividly depict the life of the camp in his own book, "The Lifetime One Day of Ivan Denisovich". This novel is a criticism of Stalin's communism and is a comment on why the communist regime is never realizable. The biggest three ways that novel criticizes communism is to humanize Russian society, show punishment of unfair form, and show importance of faith.