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This paper looks at social, economic and political aspects of Soviet society during the era of Joseph Stalin. The paper discusses Stalin's paranoid personality, Stalinist terror and the period leading up to Stalin's death. Also discusses are the hardships endured by the Soviet people because of Stalin's policies and the Soviet economic depression in post WWII era. The paper also touches upon Stalin's control of science.

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"Many historians credit Stalin's paranoid personality for the horrific course of events that unfolded during his tenure as the head of the Community Party in the USSR. For example, historians argue that Stalin was about to launch another set of purges when he died. Despite the power of Stalin's personality to control so forcefully the apparatus of the state, he never succeeded in destroying this apparatus. At least one historian argues that Stalin's personal power had begun to threaten the political..."

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