Answer:
Once Stalin gained power he enforced his power through several different methods. Including fear, cult of personality, education and youth groups, propaganda, purges and force & compulsion. He used his position as general secretary to gain control of the Communist party. He established programs that changed agriculture and industry and strengthened his control over the party by eliminating all opposition (labor camps, death lists, etc.)
Explanation:
During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of Bolshevism, not against party members themselves.
