Stalin & The Soviet Union 4/26/16
Pages 39 & 40
Stalin: Dictator
Video Clip: Industrialization Policy
Totalitarian State 1928: Stalin proposed “five-year plans” building heavy industry, improving transportation and increasing farm output. Command Economy: gov’t officials made all economic decisions. Forced Farmers to farm on Collectives (owned by gov’t). Kulaks resisted and were brutally punished. 1932: Terror Famine: 6-8 million deaths
Terror Tactics Use of secret police and spies, people sent to the Gulag, all press censored 1934: Great Purge – crack down on any rival party leaders, charged w/crimes from counterrevolutionary plots to failure of production quotas : “Show Trials” former communist leaders confess to crimes after torture. Loss of many great industrial, economic, engineering, writing and military minds.
Communists Control Thought Intense Propaganda at every turn, Censorship of artists, writers & musicians Socialists Realism: show Soviet life in a positive light and promote hope in the communist agenda Russification: forcing non-Russian nations in the Soviet Union to become more Russian Atheism: became official state policy, replaced religion with their own “sacred” texts, etc.
Socialist Realism
What was life like in the Soviet Union?
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Video Clip: The Great Purge