1. Is this capitalist or communist?
A person opens a new business making a product everyone wants to buy. She becomes rich!
The government places heavy taxes on everyone so as to provide for the needy.
A factory produces what the government tells them to make.

2. Capitalism: Which picture best describes this term? Why?

3. Communism: Which picture best describes this term? Why?A C

4. B/W Wars #5: Stalin DUE: Storybook / Quiz Tues next week
What the result of the February Revolution?
What is the result of the Bolshevik (October) Revolution?
What is the result of the Civil War?
Who is the first leader of the USSR?
Did his war communism help Russia?

5. Lenin dies in 1924… Power struggle b/w Trotsky & Joseph Stalin
Stalin (means “man of steel”): will kill his way to be leader of Soviet Union
Trotsky hides out in Mexico w/ Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera – but eventually Soviets find him & murder him

6. A new word…
Stalin will create a totalitarian regime: control of every aspect of life - economic, political and social

7. Economic Reforms Command economy: gov controls all aspects of econ.
5 Year Plan: speed up industrialization & build up of military
Sets high quotas (goals) for steel, coal, oil while limiting consumer items (clothes, cars, etc)
What can be both bad and good about this kind of an economy?

8. Peasants hate it! Don’t own anything !
Collective farms: consolidates (combines) small private farms into one large gov run farm (aka collectivization)
Will this work?
Peasants hate it! Don’t own anything !
Soviet propaganda: How does it look like the people feel about their situation?

9. Ukraine
“Breadbasket”
Resist Soviet control
Stalin decides to eliminate the “kulak” – rich peasant
Forced famine: millions will die b/c of Stalin’s food policies
Set quota to more than double what Ukraine had ever grown in a single year

10. From , what happens to production of coal, steel, oil, and electricity? What is the overall trend? 2. Which is the highest/lowest/most/least?

11. Results: Very high quotas – punished if not met
Exiled to Siberia to work in a gulag (work camp) or killed
5 to 10 million will die
Millions shipped to Siberia
But production improves
A new “reign of terror”

12. Totalitarianism: Which picture best describes this term? Why?

13. Command Economy: Which picture best describes this term? Why?

14. Collective Farm/Collectivization: Which picture best describes this term? Why?

15. On left Define each term Draw a picture or a symbol
Communism
Capitalism
Totalitarian
Command Economy
Collectivization
Draw a picture or a symbol
Describe what it is NOT (2 examples)
EX: Communism is NOT good for rich people, it does NOT allow people to determine what to produce, etc.

16. Total #11: Say Mean Matter
SAY / SHOW:
What does this text say (summarize) or what does the picture(s) show you?
MEAN
What does this mean for the Russian people?
Interpret the information
MATTER:
What is the significance, importance, or implications of this evidence?
DO ALL 3: Prop – Pick 1 poster, Photos, 2/3 charts
AND
(B) Quotes – Pick grand total of 3 OR pick 3 quotes from “challenge”

17. “About twenty miles south of Kiev [Ukraine], I came upon a village…
“About twenty miles south of Kiev [Ukraine], I came upon a village….Every dog and cat had been eaten.”

18. Final Thoughts
Describe a totalitarian government. How does Stalin’s reign represent totalitarianism? Give 2-3 specific examples. (3-4 sentences)

19. Total #12: Who or What am I? Pick 5 Bloody Sunday Czar Alexander II
World War One
February Revolution
October Revolution
Civil War
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Lenin
Czar Alexander II
Czar Alexander III
Czar Nicholas II
Czarina Alexandra
Rasputin
Russo-Japanese War
Create a description of these key terms. For example, say I am the (1) totalitarian leader who (2) tried to wipe out the Kulaks, and (3) had 5 year plans. Who am I?
Challenge: Start with a very difficult fact. Add in easier ones as you go.
Pick 5

20. Question Time A. What is a command economy?
B. What were Stalin’s 5 year plans trying to do?
A. What is a collective farm?