Case Study: Stalin’s Total Control

Totalitarian- An autocratic leader who has total control of his nation.

A totalitarian uses tricks [propaganda] to get people to believe in their ideas, but mostly use terror and violence to force obedience and crush anyone who opposes them.

• A Monarch• Gets Power From God

• Passes Divine Rule to Son• Absolute Ruler

• Totalitarian • Gets Power From Military • Hand picks next dictator

• Absolute Ruler

Adolf HitlerTotalitarian

Fascist Germany

StalinTotalitarian

USSR

MussoliniTotalitarian Fascist Italy

HirohitoEmperor/Totalitarian

Fascist Japan

Mao ZedongTotalitarian

Communist China

Stalin & Money Command economy- A system where the government makes all economic decisions. Stalin’s 5 year plan (1928-1933)-• wanted to “catch up with the advanced countries” by advancing in iron, steel, coal and oil. • limiting goods, led to a shortage of food, shelter, and clothingAgricultural Revolution- • replaced farmers with machines causing many to lose jobs. • used violence to force peasants to work, peasants resisted and 5- 10 million were killed.

Total Control/ Total Power• Secret police-

- monitored telephone lines and read mail.

- took people from their homes at night and sent them to forced labor camps.

-executed “traitors”• Great Purge( campaign of terror)-

- “eliminated” people who threatened Stalin’s power.

-thousands of Bolsheviks were executed.• Indoctrination and Propaganda-

- newspapers and radios to censored to glorify communism

- All religion outlawed, cold only worship Stalin

Daily Life Under Stalin• Women: -won equal rights during Bolshevik

Revolution -were able to work in factories - had to work AND remain responsible for

housework and childcare. • Education:

-Every child received education -Part of education was Stalin’s Propaganda (indoctrination of Stalin as God-like) -Literacy in the USSR was nearly 100%