The Psychology of Joseph Stalin

There is little denying that Joseph Stalin was a champion to millions of Russians and peasants around the world as a hero of the working-class and a foe of capitalism and its exploitation. He also remained

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f others. The Party was the primary agent for resolving the class struggle and uniting the peasantry and the proletariat; he, as head of the Party, was its own primary agent. This psychological worldview of Stalin's would be responsible for encouraging him to commit all forms of atrocious acts against as much as the hint of opposition to his beliefs or policies. Cold War theorist George F. Kennan has commented that to solidify his own power and the authority of the Party, and to remove all possible "dissent" and "dissenters" from any position of potential danger in Russia and, later, the satellite countries, Stalin used the power of the "secret police" (Harlow, & Maerz, 1990, p. 119-120). "Internal security," says Kennan, ultimately shaped the entire nature of the Stalinist regime (Harlow, & Maerz, 1990, p. 119). Organs of power and administration which did not "serve this purpose withered on the vine and had a tendency to become atrophied," said Kennan (Harlow, & Maerz, 1990, p. 119). Organs of the bureaucracy which did serve this purpose, such as the secret police and the KGB, became vastly overdeveloped. Ultimately leading to enormous atrocities and human rights abuses, the whole character and personality of the
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