<Li> Germany during the Weimar Republic had fully recovered and was prosperous in the late 1920s . The Great Depression hit in 1929 and was severe . The political system descended into violence and the Nazis under Hitler came to power through elections in early 1933 . Economic recovery was pursued through autarky, pressure on economic partners, wage controls, price controls, and spending programs such as public works and, especially, military spending . </Li> <Li> Spain saw mounting political crises that led in 1936--39 to civil war . </Li> <Li> In Benito Mussolini's Italy, the economic controls of his corporate state were tightened . The economy was never prosperous . </Li> <Li> The Soviet Union was mostly isolated from the world trading system during the 1930s . To force peasants into industrial jobs in the cities, food was stripped from rural areas, and millions died of starvation . The dictator Joseph Stalin purged nearly all the old Bolsheviks, and killed or imprisoned hundreds of thousands of presumed enemies . </Li>

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