Cultivating the Masses

Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions . Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surv