HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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a multi-party political system
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The Great Purge
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freedom of press and speech
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1934, Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people perished (see ยง Number of people executed). Some later historians came to believe that Stalin arranged the murder, or at least that there was sufficient evidence to reach such a conclusion.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of Bolshevism, not against party members themselves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stalin gained power in the USSR by using his position as party general secretary to gain control of the Communist Party and kept it by ousting his opponents, including the original Bolshevik elites that first installed communism in Russia.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did Stalin gain and maintain power in the USSR? he used his position as general secretary to gain control of the Communist party, he established programs that changed agriculture and industry and strengthened his control over the party by eliminating all opposition (labor camps, death lists, etc.)