Government under Stalin (jan 1, 1922 – jan 1, 1953)

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Stalin ran a totalitarian state; had a plan to gain complete control in five years (Five-Year Plan); developed a command economy (government officials make all economic decisions); instituted "show trials" for a terror campaign against Stalin's enemies (Great Purge); he also encouraged world-wide communist revolutions (Comintern); official religion was Atheism; had a secret police (Checka); used brutal labor camps/prisons (gulags)