1. Joseph Stalin Stalin Gains Control Building a Totalitarian State
Stalin’s Economy
The Great Purge

2. A. Stalin Gains Control Lenin dies in 1924
Both Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin want to gain control of the nation

3. Joseph Stalin becomes the next premier
Really a dictator
Trotsky is exiled and flees to Mexico

4. 1st goal of Stalin’s was to make the USSR into a modern industrial power
Did NOT worry about the military

5. B. Building a Totalitarian State
Totalitarianism – a government that controls every public and private aspect of life
Stalin turns the U.S.S.R. into a totalitarian state

6. Stalin uses: Indoctrination (brainwashing) Propaganda
Censorship (blocking material you don’t want people to see)
Religious persecutions
Controlled education

9. C. Stalin’s Economy
Five Year Plan – increase production of steel, coal, oil, & electricity.
Gulags: Prison Camps for resisters

10. Created Collective Farms – large, government owned farms
Kulaks (wealthy peasants) – resisted
Were executed

11. D. The Great Purge
Campaign to eliminate all opposition to Stalin’s power
Executed anyone who he thought was a threat
Including other communists

12. 8 – 13 million people were killed
Every citizen was afraid