What were Stalin's Domestic Policies?

There are three main domestic policies that developed under Stalin.

Stalin's main development of Marxist-Leninist thought was to alter the nature of communism. Marxist, and later Leninist, thought held that as workers around the World developed "class-conciousness" so national differences would disappear. This is why Lenin and the Bolsheviks thought that the Revolution must be exported - they also thought that communism would fail unless other countries - notably Germany -became communist. Stalin realised that there this was not necessarily true, and that there was no sign of the international revolutions occurring. So he developed the idea of Socialism in One Country. This policy meant that the USSR should focus on internal change and strengthening socialism in the country.

His main policies were collectivising agriculture - essentially all land, livestock and machinery were taken into state ownership and farmers paid a wage to work - the collectivisation of agriculture

In industry, his main policies were nationalising all enterprises and creating plans for their output. These were known as the Five Year Plans. They were designed to rapidly industrialise the Soviet Union, creating huge new factories, and building hydroelectric dams, mines and infrastructure. All enterprises were directed by the central planning agency, known as Gosplan.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_one_coun...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stal...

Stalin kept with the totalitarian centrally planned economy of Soviet Russia. He did not protect the basic rights of the Russians, and often killed his own people.