Was the victory over Hitler in the Great Patriotic War achieved inspite of Stalins policies ?

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1 (A), University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), course: Graduate Soviet and Russian Social and Economic History, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay discusses Stalin's domestic policies during World War II and whether they contributed to or impeded Soviet victory in the war.