He decided to develop industrial progress to help improve agriculture and make the people work harder, as he knew this was the only way to make socialism work. He leaned on the Red Brigade as a tool to control and dominate the people and made concentration camps where opposers where arrested and sentenced to hard work. He used fear and threat to dominate the people, setting very hard laws against those that attempted to disagree with his ideas. Dissidents where persecuted, locked up or executed. Stalin consolidated a very severe regime, not tolerating any kind of opposition to his officialism. He made his image an obligatory national cult. The result of this was a total brainwash of population and the setting of a whole new mentality for the entire country. This brought a robotization of the masses, turning them into workers that abandoned personal vision in order to follow the imposed regime of socialist ideas. It was positive for his government and the goals he had set, as it gave him absolute power and control. On the other hand it was negative for the people as...

When a leader can make people follow him blindly, or promotes ideas that are against freedom of thinking, that is the kind of leader that uses manipulation. Constructive or productive leadership need to be opened to a variety of opinions and accept counseling from different points-of-view. In order to achieve his goals any kind of leader must convince people to adopt his position. Also he must filter his opposers, cleverly and in a diplomatic way. The positive leader will not need to impose his concepts as an obligation, but can convince people to freely adopt them. Only leaders that accept freedom can really work in the favor of people and put the collective interest above their own personal ambitions. Positive leadership will always prefer team work instead of preferring individualism when acting or making decisions.
Bibliography

Zuehlke, J. (2006). Joseph Stalin. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group.