Similarities and differences between Lenin and Stalin's USSR: political control and economic policy

Political control and centralisation under Lenin

• Created a one-party state by banning all other political parties
• Created a centralised and industrialised authoritarian state, focusing power in the hands of the Politburo and imposing military-style discipline within the Party
• Created the Ban on Factions,  ending democracy within the Party and banning disagreement
• The nomenklatura system (a set of key Party and government posts appointed by the Party and given out as a reward for loyalty) created an elite within the Party

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