In the book Sofia Petrovna, author Lydia Chukovskaya writes about Sofia Petrovna and her terrible experiences as a widowed mother during the Russian Stalinist terror of the 1930s. There were four basic results of the Russian Stalinist terror: first, it was a way to keep people in order; secondly, it kept Stalin in power and prevented revolutions from forming, forced people to work harder to increase the economy's production, separated families, and caused the death of many innocent people due to false accusations. Stalin used the media to convince Russian citizens that there were saboteurs and spies within the Russian population. Stalin used secret police and military forces to carry out arrests of so-called saboteurs and spies plotting against the Russian homeland. Many innocent people were locked up in labor camps and prisons because they resisted the saboteurs' false accusations. "'And why was Alik arrested?' “Oh, Natasha, if you only knew what foul language she used in front of everyone in line, now I'm sure her living room ruined Koyla too””(87) When Alik stepped forward and spoke his mind. lies, leading to his arrest. This is very similar to when Sofia Petrovna defended Natasha in the printing house and then had to resign from her job. The media's attention to saboteurs and spies gave Stalin and the government the power to arrest or expel individuals from the Russian workforce and society because they posed a threat to the homeland, even if they were simply behaving slightly out of line. . The main reason why Stalin unleashed terror was to prevent politicians and citizens from organizing and overthrowing Stalin with a revolution, just like the way Stalin loved... middle of paper... terror makes life Sofia Petrovna is upset. fall apart and take all the important people in her life away from her. Her husband is dead, her beloved son is accused of sabotage, Koyla's faithful friend Alik was accused of association with a saboteur, and Sofia's friend and Koyla admirer Natasha poisoned herself because she "had none need" and could not live a normal life. Sofia's entire life has been ruined and at the end of the novel we see her unable to even contact her son Koyla, due to the fear of having to be deported. I believe that the Russian Stalinist terror was Stalin's way of consolidating his power as dictator of the Russian government. It kept people in order, prevented people from staging revolutions, and increased the production of goods, yet the terror ultimately destroyed millions of families and caused the deaths of millions of innocent citizens..