1. Stalin & the U.S.S.R. Lecture~ 3
Essential Question ~ How did Stalin create a Totalitarian state in the U.S.S.R.?

2. Building a Communist Soviet Union
1921 Lenin adopted the New Economic Policy (NEP)
agricultural/industrial collapse
Some capitalism allowed to help economy
1923 Lenin establishes the U.S.S.R
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

3. Lenin Dies in 1924
1924 Lenin dies after having 3 strokes
Lenin’s Casket is Carried Through the Streets of Moscow

4. Power Struggle~ Stalin Wins
JOSEPH STALIN
LEON TROTSKY

5. Stalin Builds a Totalitarian State
Totalitarian~ where the state, controlled by 1 person/class, recognizes no limits to its authority & strives to regulate every aspect of life
(Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist U.S.S.R)
Five Year Plan (1928)
Goal: transform USSR from agriculture to industrial based
Command Economy~ gov. made all basic economic decisions (no individual ownership/opposite of capitalism)
Low standard of living/wages/no workers unions
Mining & transportation expanded

6. Collective Farms
State owned farms that were operated by groups of peasants
Wealthy peasants (kulaks) that refused to live on collectives and sell their crops at low prices were brutally dealt with at labor camps
Gov. seized all the grain led to the Terror Famine of Ukraine (1932) 5-8 million died of starvation in the Ukraine (Genocide)

7. Stalin’s Terror Tactics
The Great Purge (1934) killed anyone who threatened his absolute power (dissidents)
at least 4 million
Increased Stalin’s power
Personal Freedoms eliminated

8. Communism in control
Propaganda~ Stalin made himself s godlike figure (billboards/newspapers) outlined communist success and capitalism as the enemy
Censorship~ controlled books/music/art
Russification~ imposing Russian culture on minorities
War on Religion~ Tried to replace religion with communist ideology

9. Vocab story Directions~ use the following 12 words in a story accurately describing the events that took place in Russia. Min. One page
Tsar Nicholas II
World War I
Rasputin
Bolsheviks
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
totalitarianism
CHEKA
U.S.S.R.
Gulag System
The Great Purge

10. Short Response Question
Explain how Stalin created a totalitarianism state in the U.S.S.R.
Be sure to define totalitarianism
Be sure to provide detailed examples
Should be a least 2 paragraph
You have 15 minutes