1. Totalitarianism Case Study: Stalinist Russia
By: Jennifer Y.& Erica T.

2. Section 1 – Totalitarianism
Review & Background
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
Man of Steel – Joseph Stalin
Totalitarianism
Similar characteristics of all totalitarian States
An Industrial Revolution
An Agricultural Revolution

4. Review & Background Review Orthodox Marxism Socialism Communism
Capitalism
Background
Lenin Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
Great Depression

5. Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
well-educated and cultured
Theories
World Revolution
Permanent Revolution
Trotskyism
criticized Stalin's theory
Joseph Stalin
rough and crude
Theories
Socialism in one country
Stalinism
broke out from Trotsky and Lenin

6. Man of Steel – Joseph Stalin

7. Totalitarianism When I'm gone, the capitalists will drown you
Stalin builds a totalitarian state.
Stalin’s dream
Great Depression
Other totalitarian governments emerged.
Germany – Hitler
Italy – Mussolini
China - Mao Zedong
North Korea - Kim Il Sung
Result of Totalitarianism
When
I'm gone,
the
capitalists
will
drown you
like blind
kittens

8. Similar characteristics of all totalitarian States
Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
Dynamic Leader
Ideology
State Control Over All Sectors of Society
State Control Over the Individual
Dependence on Modern Technology
Organized Violence

9. An Industrial Revolution
1st and 2nd Five-Year Plan
set impossibly high quotas
Government controlled the worker's life.
made impressive gains.
agricultural nation → industrial nation

10. An Agricultural Revolution
1st and 2nd Five-Year Plan
Collective farms
Resistances of peasants
Kulaks
development

11. Section2 – Weapons of and daily life under totalitarianism
Police Terror
Indoctrination and Propaganda
Censorship
Religious Persecution
Comparing Revolutions
Soviet Women
Education

12. Police Terror Used terror and violence to stop the opposition
No privacy
GREAT PURGE: campaign of terror.
Eliminate whoever got in Stalin’s way
1939; ended the great purge
Historians said that Stalin is responsible for all deaths

13. Indoctrination and Propaganda
Indoctrination: Instruction in the government’s beliefs.
Propaganda: biased or incomplete information used to sway people to accept certain beliefs or actions.
ART was used for Propaganda
Socialist realism: Artistic style that
praised Soviet life and communist values.

14. Censorship
Stalin wouldn’t tolerate individual creativity that threatened the conformity and obedience required of citizens in a totalitarian state.
Controlled ALL medias
No privacy
Even children were supposed to tell the government about what they heard from their family.

15. Religious Persecution
Ideals of communism
The Russian Orthodox church was the main target of persecution.
Other religions also suffered.
Destroyed religion

16. Comparing Revolutions
Russian Revolution was similar to French revolution.
Both wanted to destroy social and political structures.
Included Violence, and terrorism.
French=monarchy, Russia=totalitarian.

17. Soviet Women Equal rights
Under 5year plans, they were forced to join the labor force.
Educational opportunities.
Medicine was popular.
1950: There were 75% of women Soviet doctors
Job, child, and housework.
Motherhood was a patriotic duty.

18. Pictures
Pilots
Doctors
Soldiers

19. Education Controlled all education.
College professors and students who went against the communist party lost their jobs or faced imprisonment.
Needed many skilled workers.

20. Sources http://pamolson.org/TransSibMoscow.jpg