Stalinism on the 12 Axes

After Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin defeated his rivals and declared that the Soviet Union could build socialism on its own without waiting for revolutions abroad. From 1928 his five-year plans turned the country into an industrial power, while farms were forced into collectives, causing famine in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other regions. Political life centered on Stalin personally, and the secret police carried out mass arrests, show trials and deportations to the Gulag labor camps, most intensely in the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938. Socially the regime grew more conservative over time, restoring traditional family policy and promoting Russian culture. Stalinism keeps the Leninist party state but is more centralized, more nationalist and more coercive, and unlike Maoism it relied on the urban working class and heavy industry.

• Maoism 77%Maoism is the version of Marxism-Leninism developed by Mao Zedong, which places the peasantry at the center of revolution and relies on protracted people's war and constant mass mobilization.
• State Capitalism 71%State capitalism is an economic system in which the state owns or controls major companies and directs markets toward national goals, often under a single-party or strongly centralized government.
• Leninism 68%Leninism is the theory and practice of Vladimir Lenin: a disciplined vanguard party leads a revolution, takes state power and builds socialism through a dictatorship of the proletariat.
• State Socialism 67%State socialism holds that the government should own the main industries and plan the economy, using a strong central state as the main tool for reaching social equality.