1. Stalin’s Soviet Union

2. How does Stalin create a totalitarian state?

4. State Control of Economy: Collectivisation And 5 Year Plans!
5 Year Plans: Plans to rapidly industrialize USSR
Collectivization: take land from peasants and create large collective farms
% of land was owned by peasants.
% was collectivized.

5. “Stakhanovite” Alexei Stakhanov = ideal worker
must work hard or risk being labeled a traitor

6. Gov’t Terror: Secret Police
1917: Lenin creates the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter Revolution, Speculation, Sabotage, and Misconduct in Office, better known as the CHEKA
The CHEKA starts arresting opponents and executing “traitors”

7. The CHEKA is eventually replaced by the GPU, then by the OGPU, and then in 1934 by the Commisariat for Internal Affairs, better known as the…
NKVD

8. Gov’t Terror: Purges! Why?: Protect revolution from “traitors”
VICTIMS:
Kulaks
Peasants
Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kirov & other old Bolsheviks.
Army officers

9. Show Trials (1930s)
Many top Commies accused of being enemies of the revolution
Accused often “confessed” to the crimes
Executions often followed

10. Trotsky: Assassinated in 1940

11. Alters History by “erasing” enemies!
Photo #1: Lenin and Trotsky
Photo #2: No Trotsky

12. Photo #1: Lenin and Trotsky
Photo #2: No Trotsky

13. Photo #1: Stalin and Yezhov

14. Photo #1
Before the Purges
Photo #2
After the Purges

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19. DeathTally: at least 20 million
Executed
Starved to death
Die in the gulag

20. Gov’t Terror: The Gulag!

21. Indoctrinating the Youth
Young Pioneers
Communsit Party youth group
for kids under 15
kids taught to love the Communist Party more than family

22. Komsomol
for kids over 15
way to become Communist Party members and have good future

23. Pavlik Morozov 13 yr. old turned in his father
heralded as ideal Soviet youth

24. Gov’t Control and Censorship of Media

25. Pravda (“Truth”): Official newspaper of the Communist Party

26. Glavlit: gov’t censoring agency
Goskomizdat : gov’t agency controlling publication of books and other literature

28. “Thank you dear Stalin for a happy childhood.”

29. “Stalin at the helm”

30. “Under The Leadership Of The Great Stalin--Forward To Communism!”

31. “Take A Look: The Entire Soviet Nation Is Singing & Dancing”

32. Art
Socialist Realism: style of art designed to glorify communist party and Lenin/Stalin
all artists had to join the Union of Soviet Artists
Stalin: “Artists are the engineers of souls”
“Stalin as an organizer of the October Revolution”

33. “An Unforgettable Meeting” – Vasili Efanov

34. “A collective farm feast” - Alesandr Gerasimov, 1937

35. “Return of the Winners”

38. “Industrial Worker and Collective Farm Girl” – Vera Mukhina, 1935

40. Architecture Palace of the Soviets
Proposed building glorifying communism
would have been world’s tallest building
Lenin at the top would have been larger than the Statue of Liberty