A Totalitarian State

Victor Castillo

The Soviet Union Under Stalin

Stalin’s Five Year Plans

▪He proposed the first of several “Five-year plan” aimed at building heavy industry improving transportation, and increasing farm output.▪The soviet union developed a command

economy, which government officials made all basic economic decisions.

Stalin’s five year plans

•The government pushed workers and manager to meet these goals by giving and punishing those who did not.

Oil, coal, and steel production grew•Mining expanded and new railroads

were built Wages were low and workers were

forbidden to strike

mixed results in the industry

LectureCh 13.4

History ProjectBy: Heng, Sok Eng

Period: 5

Soviet Society Under Stalin

New Elite Take Control

● Communists destroyed the old social order where landowning nobles is at the top and peasant at the bottom.

● The communist created a society where a few elite groups emerged as a new ruling class.

● Soviet elite under Stalin often suffer from Stalin’s purges.

Objective: What were the changes that communists made under Stalin?

Benefits and Drawbacks

● Children attend free Communist-built schools.● Communists also set up programs for students

outside school.● Educated workers were needed to built

modern industrial state.● States provided free medical care, day care for

children, inexpensive housing and public recreation.

Women in the Soviet Union

● Under Communists women won equality under the law.● Women gained access to education and a wide range of jobs.● Many soviet women worked in medicine, engineer or the

sciences.● Women contributed to Soviet economy's growth.● Men and women earned equal salaries.

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•Stalin wanted peasants to farm on either state owned farms or collectives large farm owned.

Peasants would be permitted to keep their house and personal belongings, but all farm animals were to be turned over to the collectives.

Forced Collectivization in Agriculture

● Stalin made crimes against humanity and systematically violated peoples rights.

● Newspapers and other media were censored.

● Gulag: a system of brutal labor camps.

Stalin used terror terror as a weapon

● Stalin feared the rivals were plotting against him.

● He targeted army heroes, industrial managers, writers and other important citizens and charged them with a large range of crimes. Between 1936 and 1938 Stalin made a series of public “show trials” in Moscow.

The Great Purge

● Secret police files revealed 14 million people were purged during Stalin’s years.

The Great Purge

● The purges increased the power of Stalin.● Citizens became aware of the punishment

of disloyalty to Stalin.● In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet

Union.

Results of the Purge

● Lenin and Stalin wanted to bring worldwide revolution that Marx had predicted. However since they were soviets, they wanted to win the nation’s security by winning the support of other countries.

● In 1914, Lenin formed the Communist International Comintern, with the purpose of encouraging world wide revolution.

● This aided many revolutionary groups around the world and helped colonial people rise up against imperialist powers.

Soviet Foreign Policy

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