1. STALIN:
MAD, BAD, AND SAD

2. JOSEF STALIN NOT HIS REAL NAME, HE’S NOT EVEN A RUSSIAN.
BORN IN GEORGIA (CAUCUSUS) IN 1879.
IOSIF DZHUGASHVILI. FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER AND A DRUNK. HE GREW UP IN A HUT.
ENROLLS IN SEMINARY;
IS THROWN OUT FOR
READING MARX

3. “COMRADE” STALIN AS REVOLUTIONARY
DOES LITTLE DURING RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
APPOINTED BOLSHEVIK COMMISSAR OF NATIONALITIES AFTER THE REVOLUTION

4. STALIN COMES TO POWER Becomes party secretary
Gets to appoint those loyal to him to Politburo
Takes full power by 1929
Says Lenin wanted him to be his successor

6. FIVE YEAR PLANS Central government planners set goals -
Soviet industry
Almost catches up to
Rest of Europe in less
Than 15 years
Right: Happy Peasants

7. SOCIALIST REALISM
ART MUST PROMOTE
THE GOALS OF THE REVOLUTION.

9. NEW CITIES AND MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT, SOMETIMES WITH AMERICAN HELP

11. COLLECTIVE FARMS

12. ELIMINATING THE KULAKS
KULAKS WERE PROSPEROUS PEASANTS, WHO SOMETIMES LENT MONEY AND SEED TO OTHER PEASANTS
ACCUSED OF SABOTAGE
STALIN LAUNCHES A CLASS WAR

14. FAMINE IN UKRAINE
HARVESTS FAIL IN

15. PURGES STALIN REMOVED ANYONE HE PERCEIVED AS A THREAT
EVENTUALLY, ALMOST ALL THE “OLD BOLSHEVIKS” OF THE REVOLUTION WERE REPLACED BY “LITTLE STALINS”

16. SHOW TRIALS Public humiliation of Those being purged.
Started with killing of
Kirov, a loyal follower
Of Stalin. Liquidations
Sometimes amounted
To hundreds a day.

17. ASSASSINATIONS

18. REWRITING HISTORY

19. CULT OF PERSONALITY

20. THE GULAG WORK CAMPS FOR DISSENTERS OR ANYONE ACCUSED BY PARTY
MOSTLY IN SIBERIA – MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT BY SLAVE LABOR

21. THE GULAG “ARCHIPELAGO”

22. STALIN AND HITLER
HITLER DETESTS COMMUNISM; IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY IT
STALIN AND HITLER SIGN NONAGGRESSION PACT IN 1939
Stalin cooperates in Hitler’s invasion of Poland, grabs territory.
Refuses to believe in 1941 that Hitler would invade Soviet Union

23. STALIN AS WAR LEADER FINALLY RALLIES PEOPLE AFTER THREE WEEKS
ORDERS COUNTER-
ATTACK OUTSIDE
MOSCOW.
ANYONE WHO FAILS,
DIES

24. SOVIETS DEFEAT NAZIS
MILLIONS OF LOSSES, PERHAPS 20 MILLION DEAD, GREATEST OF WAR
SOVIETS GET AMERICAN MATERIAL HELP
ROLL ACROSS EASTERN EUROPE IN
TAKE BERLIN, HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE
HAVE BIGGEST ARMY IN EUROPE, BEST TANKS

26. GENOCIDES Chechens, Kalmyks and Balkars
Small Caucasian peoples accused of cooperating with Nazis
Rounded up and sent into desert in dead of winter to die.

27. DEATH OF STALIN
1953
“DOCTORS’ PLOT”
NO CLEAR SUCCESSION

28. SO WHY WAS STALIN
MAD
BAD
SAD?