The Role of Stalin in the Gigantic Sweep of History

The entire international system and Stalin's day rested on the labor peasants, the farms, cultivating the land without that labor. But their ability to engage in collective action is severely limited; they live separated from each other in villages. They have a hard time communicating from one village to the next, let alone across vast spaces. Despite being a single person or a handful of people if they're in a coalition can leverage the system in a way that those millions and hundreds of millions of people who actually make up the system could never do.