1. 10th World Studies 3.27.18 Today’s Agenda:
Turn in:
Nothing
Take out :
Planner
Notes
Note-taking devices
Today’s Learning Objectives:
I can make a determination as to what direction government leadership (can) should take.
Today’s Agenda:
A little bit more on Stalin…
A commercial…
HW:
CRA 28.2

2. Holodomor: “Killing by hunger” 1932-33(?)
Geno+cide (1944) WWII
“race” Greek+ “killer” Latin
Völkermeuchelnden (German)
Englished in 1893 as “folk-murdering”
from Populicide (French Revolution)
1929—Ukrainian farmers are successful, yet “rebellious” farmers (kulaks)
1930—dekulakization policies—armed confiscation, and “relocation” leads to ~1.5 million Ukrainians being moved (or dead…)
—Stalin increases the quotas for Ukrainian farms—crops to the state before the people.
“…teach a lesson through famine” although Stalin denies any famine to other world powers
1933: FDR formally recognizes Stalin’s govt & negotiates a trade agreement.

3. Stalin was able to do this, unlike Lenin, b/c the gov’t was firmly in place and all opposition had been eliminated/reduced through state terror/propaganda
Stalin combined communism and dictatorship in this time, setting the tone for future communist leaders
By 1941, the USSR was one of the top 3 economic powers in the world (Germany and USA were the others)

4. Indoctrination & Propaganda “Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood”

7. Trotsky is seen in the foreground with Lev Kamenev

8. Nikolai Yezhov

9. Russian/Soviet Dead in 20th Century
World War million
Civil War/famine million
Stalin’s purges/ Holodomor million
World War million
TOTAL million