1. Learning Objective:
Today I will be able to explain totalitarianism by creating web of policies under Stalin’s regime in the USSR.
Agenda:
Learning Objective
Lecture Notes: Ch Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism Web
VICE: The Hermit Kingdom
Exit Slip

2. Title Notes: Ch. 14.2 Totalitarianism
Gov. that takes total control over every aspect of public & private life.
AKA, centralized
Methods of control:
Terror, indoctrination, propaganda, censorship, & religious/ethnic persecution.
Usually a persuasive & dynamic leader.
Provide sense of security
Use secret police to crush opposition & create fear among people.

3. USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Joseph Stalin
1922, name change from Russia
Joseph Stalin
“Man of steel”
1928, commanded Communist party after Lenin’s death.

4. YouTube: Totalitarianism
What are some things that Stalin did to gain total control of the USSR?
How did communism become beneficial to the people? How did it become oppressive?

5. Indoctrination
School instructions used to support government; totalitarianism.
Beliefs molded people’s minds.
Control of education
Leader is glorified
Create unconditional loyalty from the ppl.
Educators, arrested for questioning Stalin.

6. Propaganda & Censorship
Biased, incomplete & censored information used to sway people to support totalitarian government.
Control of mass media
Radio/music/art/books cannot be allowed without permission of gov.
Citizens surrounded by false info.
Stalin glorified in media.

7. The Great Purge
Terrorizing campaign that targeted people against Stalin
Secret police to used to monitor books/mail/phones
Children tell police about their parent’s disloyal comments.

8. Religious or Ethnic Persecution
Religion prohibited.
Communism ideas forced to replace religious ideas.
Leaders blame “enemies of the state” (religion) for the country’s problems
League of the Militant Godless, atheist group spread propaganda: religion beliefs to be superstition.

9. Command Economy: Five-Year Plan
1928, Stalin ordered that the gov. make all economic decisions.
Five-Year Plan
Set impossible goals/quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil, & electricity.
To reach goal, production on consumer goods reduced-shortages in food, housing, cloth, etc.
New plan in 1933

10. Collective farm 1928, Privately owned farms seized by gov.
25 million
Farms combined for families to work to produce food for the state.
Kulaks, wealthy peasants who refused to give their farms. (Social History-pg. 445)
Gov. killed them & destroyed their farms
5-10 million died from Stalin’s Agricultural Revolution
1938, 90% of all peasants lived in farmland.

11. Benefits of Communism:
Women forced to work by law: career opportunities
Since Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Ppl. Became better educated & mastered technical skills
engineering/science/medicine/technology
By mid 1930s, Stalin total control
Stalin stood unopposed
Against creativity b/c it threatened conformity & obedience of citizens to maintain communism.

12. Totalitarianism Web Fill out the web.
One example/item of policy in each box.
Use your notes or textbook (pg )

13. VICE: The Hermit Kingdom
Why was VICE prohibited from returning to North Korea?
When the basketball players arrived to NK, what impressions were the hosts trying to make?
How does the media portray its leaders?
Evaluate how does government control affect the everyday lives of the North Korean people?

14. Exit Slip
How would your life change if you lived in a totalitarian state?