1. Stalin
“The man of steel”

2. STALIN:
MAD, BAD, AND SAD

3. 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

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

6. Stalin supported Lenin’s takeover
After Lenin dies, uses his influence to assume Lenin’s role
Constantly afraid of outside attack by other countries
“They know communism is better, so they’re jealous”
Believes only way to protect USSR was by dramatically increasing military might and increasing industrialization….
At any cost!
Does this by establishing “5 year plans”

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

8. 5 year plans Stalin would look at production amounts
set an extreme goal for factories, etc….
Example
1925
1935
1930
Electricity, coal, steel, food, etc...

10. 5 year plans Forces people to move from countryside to cities
Huge display boards showing output
Begin paying harder, more skilled workers more $
It worked….

11. COLLECTIVE FARMS

12. Stalin reforms Farmers forced to work as a group “collectivization”
Old methods to new...

13. 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. Stalin resentful of “Kulaks” (Farmers with more land/$/resources
Confiscates their lands
Exiles many to forced labour camps in Siberia

15. FAMINE IN UKRAINE
HARVESTS FAIL IN

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

17. THE GULAG “ARCHIPELAGO”

18. Kulaks not the only sent to Siberia
Anyone found not contributing/doing their fair share
Anyone complaining about Stalin/government
Siberia=“Labour Camps”, c-o-l-d...
= dreadful conditions…early death
Sample Siberian
outcasts
(notice
chains)

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

20. 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.

21. Eliminates any political competition via exile/death/Siberia
Stalin is ruthless.
Eliminates any political competition via exile/death/Siberia
Does this on a regular basis…called “purges”
Secret police (NKVD) would round up suspected “traitors”
given “show trials”, then sent “away”….

22. ASSASSINATIONS

23. Example….Trotsky exiled.
Trotsky builds villa-fortress in Mexico with high security.
Eventually Stalin finds Trotsky, sends an agent.
Agent works his way into compound, becomes an employee
One night agent sneaks into bedroom, stabs Trotsky in back of skull with an
icepick

24. Voting allowed…but only for communist party:-)
“One-party-rule” eventually becomes
“One-person-rule.”
Stalin eventually becomes a dictator with full control
Stalin has complete, total control of the country.
Forces USSR to become very powerful…
Many human costs.
Estimates of 5-25 million deaths.
Many claim his purges and excessive work plans killed more Russians than WW1&2 combined!?
How does he get away with all this???

25. REWRITING HISTORY

26. Propoganda Stalin controls media
Radio, newspapers, education, t.v., everything.
Always portraying Stalin as Sweet “Uncle Joe”

27. CULT OF PERSONALITY

28. In reality...

29. Sample PropogandaPoster
"The leader and teacher of humanity in the fight for peace, democracy and socialism."

30. Sample Propoganda Image

31. Sample Propoganda Image

32. Sample PropogandaWall Image

33. Sample PropogandaPoster
What headline would be used by Stalin for this image?

34. Why wouldn’t this image be allowed?

35. Even other countries were impressed...

36. 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.

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

38. Results?
USSR becomes one of the mightiest powers on the planet, 2nd only to USA
First to get a satellite in space
Eventually helps other countries become communist (Cuba, etc.)
Costs???? Millions of dead civilians
Increased tensions between countries
Cold War