By wielding complete control over all aspects of the economy, dictators were able to stabilize their economies.
Explanation:
If you control every single aspect of the economy of a country, you have all the tools to artificially control economy to a certain degree. Basically, the consequences of the bad conditions of the Economy are eventually going to come back, but they can be postponed artificially and that's what was done; it did last quite enough for these factions to exerce their influence on other countries.
c. freed slaves returned to work for their former owners
Explanation:
the sharecropping system was designed to recreate slavery but not exactly slavery. Sice the ex slaves didnt know anything other than the work their masters made them do, they had no choice but to go back and work for them.