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World Service,25 Sep 2002,27 mins

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Stalin's rule was characterised by forced collectivisation, famine, five year plans, labour camps and the Cold War, but it was also a time of industrialisation, education, and resisting the Nazi invasion. Was the cult of personality all that Stalin needed to remain in power when inflicting so much misery on the people of the Soviet Union? With contributions from Professor Margot Light of the London School of Economics and Russian journalist Leonid Vladimirov.

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