1. Bolshevik Consolidation
October Revolution
Constituent Assembly
War Communism
Cheka
War on Factions

2. Revolt and Response
Kronstadt Rebellion
New Economic Policy (NEP)

3. Stalin’s Rise to Power Deification of Lenin Power Struggle
Party Politics
Lenin’s blueprint (anti-factions, dictatorship of the proletariat)
Aftermath of War
Propaganda

4. Stalin’s consolidation
Five Year Plan
Collectivization/Dekulakization
Cult of Personality
Propaganda
Dizzy with Success

5. Dizzy with Success
But successes also have their seamy side; especially when they are achieved with comparative "ease, " "unexpectedly, " so to speak. Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and arrogance. "We can do anything!" "We can win hands down!" People are often intoxicated by such successes, they become dizzy with success, they lose all sense of proportion, they lose the faculty of understanding realities, they reveal a tendency to overestimate their own strength and to underestimate the strength of the enemy; reckless attempts are made to settle all the problems of Socialist construction "in two ticks. "

6. In such cases care is not taken to consolidate the successes achieved and systematically to utilize them for the purpose of advancing further. Why should we consolidate successes? We shall anyhow reach the complete victory of Socialism in "two ticks, " "We can do anything!" "We can win hands down!"

7. Hence the task of the Party: to wage a determined struggle against this frame of mind, which is dangerous and harmful to the cause, and to drive it out of the Party.
- Joseph Stalin, 1930

8. 17th Party Congress – Congress of Victors
Praise of Stalin
Plot against Stalin
Confirmation vote
Revenge: 1108 of 1966 Party members purged (98 of 139 Central Committee executed)

9. Sergi Kirov
Emerging threat to Stalin
Assassination
Stalin’s response

10. Show Trials 1st Trial (1936) – Zinoviev/Kamanev (Leftist Troskyites)
3rd Trial (1938) – The Trial of Twenty-one (Bukharin/Rykov/Yagoda – Rightist Trotskyites)

11. Army Trial Marshall Tukhachevsky Leadership Decimated 3/5 Marshalls
13/25 Army Commanders
8/9 Fleet Admirals
50/57 Corp Commanders
154/186 Division Commanders
43,000 Officers in all

12. Russian Art Movement

13. Vera Ermolayeva

14. Wassily Kandinsky

16. Vladimir Lebedev

17. Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

18. What is the role of propaganda in an absolutist state?

19. Socialist Realism Means of creating art under state control since 1917
Reaction against “bourgeois” art (cubism, impressionism)
Simple art for simple folks
“Girl Meets Tractor”
State policy in 1932
Ruthlessly enforced by Stalin as the only acceptable art form

20. The First and Second Five Year Plans (1928-1937)
Fight lazy workers!, 1931
Forward to World October, 1933

21. Railway workers keep up the fast pace..., 1932 Inv

22. Glorifying Stalin

23. K Trokhimenko

24. Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov