Stalinism did not only consist of repression and imprisonments, it was also a very complicated system, which was economically and socially revolutionary. Stalin forged an economic system that transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and laid the foundations for the rise of the USSR as a superpower. Thanks to this work, the reader will be able to better comprehend the Soviet experience through details of the lives of its main leaders, above all Stalin, but also through the lives of Soviet citizens, the beliefs they shared and the things that made them laugh, as well as the cities and buildings where they lived (or in most cases, scraped by).