- Lenin had provided the model for the regimes of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler.

- The model of the regime of Stalin was a single party dictatorship.

- The regimes took over control of every facet of the individuals life.

- The government made new goals over and over again, so it was more of a constant revolution. The goals were never all completed.

- Stalin's plan was to create a new kind of society and a new human personality to inhabit that society.

- The name of the new sort of human was: Homo Sovieticus.

- The Soviets under Stalin were not successful, but the Soviets build a new society, which survived down to the late 1980s.

- Nobody was secured in this society. The police could arrest anyone at anytime. Only Stalin himself could not be arrested.

- Stalin's second wife publicly rebuked Stalin and commited suicide afterwards in 1932.

- In 1934 Sergei Kirov was assassinated and Stalin killed hundreds of party members, because of their complicity in Kirov's death.

- In January 1937 a second great show trial was held. 17 leading Bolsheviks declared they knew about the conspiracy between Trotsky, the German and the Japanese.

- There was a last great trial, in which there were many people killed.

- Many people died because of the purges and the forced collectivations.

- In the Soviet Union there was a lot of propaganda and indoctrination. This happened though all of the media in the Soviet Union.

- There was a lot of hope in the Soviet Union, people saw themselves as the people who built the world's first socialist society and they were very proud.

- Germany, under Hitler, eventually became a one party state too. By dissolving the other parties.

- In Germany, Hitler also abolished the freedom of speech and the freedom of assembly to secure the state and to keep his party the only one, whilst having no enemies.

- Hitler promised a lot of good things and provided them also, so the people would admire him and wouldn't want another leader.

- Hitler's ambitions had no limits, he wanted the whole world to be socialistic.

- Hitler built his system on two main ideas: Lebensraum and race.