1. Totalitarianism

2. Totalitarianism Government control over every aspect of life
Dictatorship & worship of cult leader.
Conformity not individuality—the good of the state over individuals
Ruthless suppression of opposition—the end justifies the means
Police State—big brother is watching you.

3. Methods of Enforcement
Police terror
Propaganda and Censorship
Indoctrination
Persecution
Concentration Camps & Slave Labor
Execution without trial

4. Democracy Socialism Monarchy Communism Fascism Totalitarian
United States
Degree of Freedom
Socialism
Left
Right
Monarchy
Communism
Fascism
Totalitarian

5. Communism founded by Karl Marx
economic philosophy> no private property
all businesses & property owned by “the people”
“from each according to his ability to each according to his need”
reality = dictatorship of the Communist Party & Communist Party leaders
“the people” = government> the Party knows best
Totalitarian Police State —KGB
Ruthless, comformity, absolute bureaucracy

6. Russian Revolution Lenin & Communist Party
International Communist Revolution
Secret Police
Elimination of opposition/no free speech
Allow rural land revolution
Leon Trotsky won Civil War against “Whites”

7. Joseph Stalin
Killer in the Kremlin

8. Stalin ruled Russia 1929-1953 born Joseph Dzhugahvili
Stalin=man of steel
Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin began seize power

10. Communism in Russia “Socialism in One Country”
collectivization of farms
“Murder Famine” of , 7 million Russians starved to death

11. Mass Murderer Stalin slaughtered 20-30 million Russians
Gulag Archipelago—slave labor camps
“Great Purges” including Red Army

12. The Case Against Stalin