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**Stalin's Totalitarianism** When Josef Stalin took over to lead the Soviet Union, he changed the modern state of the USSR into being a modern totalitarian state. Stalin’s five year plan was to have” total industrial output increase by 250%” in five years (McKay et al 957). Stalin wanted a new society and a strong industrial economy and a powerful army. The status of women was also changing and they had to work and get educated. There were many economic hardships that led to broken families. Another change to the soviet state was that everybody had a job and the industrialization required many skilled engineers and workers. Stalin was able to reform the USSR into a “dynamic, modern totalitarian state” (McKay et al 957)