1. Do Now
Read “The Need for Progress”, a speech given by Joseph Stalin in 1931.
Answer the three questions at the bottom of the page, write the answers on the back.

2. Totalitarianism
Warm Up: Summarize what occurred in the Russian Revolution.

3. Objective Students will…
Explain how conditions in the USSR allowed totalitarianism to rise.
Analyze economic and political policies, the absence of a free press, and violations human rights in Stalin’s rise to power.

4. Total, Centralized State Control
Totalitarianism—government that dominates every aspect of life

5. Police State
Stalin’s police attack opponents with public force and secret actions
The Great Purge—terror campaign against Stalin’s perceived enemies
By the end of 1938 Stalin is in complete control
8-13 million people are dead as a result.
“They monitored telephone lines, read mail, and planted informers everywhere. Even children told authorities about disloyal remarks they heard at home.”

6. Russian Propaganda and Censorship
Government controls newspapers, radio, and movies.
Stalin developed a “cult of personality” often glorifying himself in official propaganda posters.
Artists are censored, controlled; their work is harnessed to glorify the Party

7. More Propaganda
“The leader and teacher of humanity in the fight for peace, democracy and socialism.”

8. Yet MORE propaganda!
“Long live the standard bearer of peace. the best friend of the German people.”

9. Education and Indoctrination
Government controls all education, from early grades to college.
Children learn the virtues of the Communist Party.
Teachers and students who challenge the Party are punished.

10. Religious Persecution
Government attacks the Russian Orthodox Church.
Magnificent churches and synagogues are destroyed. Religious leaders are killed.
People lose all personal rights and freedoms.

11. An Industrial Revolution
Five-Year Plans—Stalin’s plans for developing the economy
Result: large growth in industrial power, but a shortage in consumer goods

12. An Agricultural Revolution
In 1928, government creates collective farms—large, state-owned farms.
Peasants resist this change, and 5-10 million peasants die in the crackdown.
By 1938, agricultural production is rising.

13. Woman Gain Rights Communists say women are equal to men.
Women forced to join labor force; state provides child care
Many women receive advanced educations and become professionals.
Women suffer from the demands of work and family.

14. denies basic liberties
TOTALITARIANISM
State Control
of Individuals
demands loyalty
denies basic liberties
expects personal sacrifice for the good of the state
Methods of Enforcement:
police terror
indoctrination
censorship
persecution
Modern Technology
mass communication to spread propaganda
advance military weapons
State Control of Society
business
labor
housing
education
Dictatorship & One-Party Rule
exercises absolute authority
dominates the government
Dynamic Leader
unites people
symbolizes government
encourages popular support through force of will
Ideology
sets goals of the state
glorified aims of the state
glorified govern

15. A Powerful Ruler By mid-1930s, Stalin has transformed Soviet Union
Totalitarian regime; industrial, political power
Stalin controls all aspects of Soviet life:
Unopposed as dictator, Communist Party leader
Rules by terror instead of constitutional government
Demands conformity and obedience.

16. REVIEW ?s

17. Lenin’s successor, who worked to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, was
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Nicholas II
Rasputin
A government that takes total, centralized control over all aspects of public and private life is an example of
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Socialism

18. A system in which the government makes all economic decision is called
Stalin’s campaign of terror designed to eliminate anyone who threatened is power was called
A pogrom
The Great Purge
The Terror
The Russian Revolution
A system in which the government makes all economic decision is called
A command economy
A dictatorship
A totalitarian economy
Communism

19. Stalin’s proposals for the development of the Soviet Union’s economy were called
Ten-Year Plans
Economic blueprints
Five-Year Plans
Command economies
The agricultural revolution of the USSR combined privately-owned farms called
Communist collectives
Collective farms
Experimental farms
Plantations