1. STALIN

2. Thank Comrade Stalin for this happy life.
JOSEPH STALIN
Thank Comrade Stalin for this happy life.
Changed name to Stalin = Man of Steel
1928 in total control of Communist Party
Forced Trotsky into exile in 1929
In 1940 Stalin’s agents killed him in Mexico with an ice pick.

3. Totalitarianism
A government that takes total control over EVERY aspect of public & private life.
Command Economy—the government make all economic decisions.

4. Problems for the USSR Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR)
1921 industrial output was only 1/5 the size that it was in 1913 before the war
Ukrainian Famine created by the government to crush Ukrainian nationalist (killed 5 Million people!)
Agricultural outputs were at an all time low.

5. Five Year Plans ( , )
years behind industrialized countries and if the Soviet Union did not catch up they would be conquered
5 year plans
High quotas to increase steel, coal, oil & electricity
It worked, industrial output skyrocketed
But government limited production of consumer goods to meet quotas
= Shortages in housing, food, clothing

6. Collective Farming 1980s—USSR USSR seized 25 million farms
Combined them into collective farms
100s of families were living in one large farm
No privacy, easier for government to control
5-10 million died
Kulaks (wealthy peasants) resisted
They were executed
1980s—USSR

7. Weapons of Totalitarianism
Police Terror
Secret police arrested & executed MILLIONS of so-called traitors
Gulags-Hard labor camps in Siberia
Great Purges
Eliminate anyone who threatened Stalin’s power
Show Trails to trick the public into thinking that they were necessary
Killed 8-13 millions people by 1939

8. Weapons of Totalitarianism
Censorship &Propaganda
Socialist Realism
Artistic style that praised Soviet life & Communist Values
Religious Persecution
Religion was labeled the “opium of the masses and banned
Churches=Museums of Atheism