WARM UP – WRITE THE PROMPT!• Describe what you see in the image. Who are the people

in the poster? What is the tone of the poster/What

feelings does the poster evoke?

V.I. LENIN

FB PROFILE: V.I. LENINMLA Citation for Textbook/Lecture Notes:

Spielvogel, Jackson J. Glencoe World History: Modern Times. New

York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2006. Print.

Reminders:

• Friends: famous historical friends, not just randoms (ie. Josef

Stalin)

• Interests: you must infer interests from the sources you use

• Status Update: V.I. Lenin is (something he would have said)

• The Wall: 3 posts, either -

• Events from life: (Date): (Event)

• Posts from friends: (Name of friend): (comment on wall)

Ch. 14, Sect. 2

STALINIST RUSSIA

STALIN BECOMES DICTATOR (REVIEW)

• Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 – could no longer run

the Communist Party (CP)

• Stalin (general secretary of the CP) worked to become

leader

• Recall: What was Lenin’s main concern about

Stalin?

• Lenin dies in 1924, Stalin takes command of the CP in

1928, forces Trotsky into exile in 1929

JOSEF STALIN – “MAN OF STEEL”

STALIN AND LENIN

IN STALINIST RUSSIA . . .

• Stalin wanted Russia to be one of the most powerful

nations in the world

• Est. a gov’t that established total control of all

aspects of life in the Soviet Union

• Gov’t, Economy, and citizen’s private lives

• TPS: How does this gov’t compare the gov’t under

the czars?

IN STALINIST RUSSIA . . .

A gov’t of TOTAL CONTROL – totalitarianism

Controls every aspect of public and private life

Needs a leader who:

1. Builds a gov’t that can support control

2. Provides a sense of security and future goals

3. Uses mass communication to reach all the citizens

IN STALINIST RUSSIA . . .

• Stalin built a police state to maintain power

• TPS: What are the police usually supposed to do

for the citizens of a nation?

• Police monitored telephone lines, read mail, & planted

informers everywhere

• Secret police arrested and executed millions of

“traitors”

STALIN’S TOTALITARIAN STATE

• In 1934, Stalin turned on members of the CP

• In 1937, he launched the Great Purge – eliminated

anyone who threatened his power

– Old Bolsheviks who helped the Revolution were tried for

“crimes against the Soviet state”

– Great Purge ends in 1938; btwn 8 mil. and 13 mil.

deaths attributed to this time

• TPS: How would the actions of the Great Purge

increase Stalin’s power?

STALIN’S TOTALITARIAN STATE

Propaganda and Censorship

• Recall: What is definition of propaganda?

• Controls all news, media, and other sources of info.

• No indiv. creativity tolerated if it didn’t conform the

ideas of the state

• Art was used for propaganda

STALIN’S TOTALITARIAN STATE

STALIN PROPAGANDA

“Literature, the cinema, the arts are levers in the hands of

the proletariat which must be used to show the masses

positive models of initiative and heroic labor”

CP newspaper Pravda

RE: the purpose of art

STALIN’S TOTALITARIAN STATE

Education and Indoctrination

• Gov’t controlled all education from nursery schools

through university

• Kids taught the virtues of the CP

• Teachers who ?? the CP’s interpretation of history

risked losing job or going to prison

• Taught workers and peasants the importance of

sacrifice and hard work to build up the CP and state

STALIN’S TOTALITARIAN STATE

Religious Persecution

• Replace rel. teaching with the ideals of communism

– Orthodox Church main target

• League of the Militant Godless – officially sponsored

group of atheists

• Police destroy rel. buildings; rel. leaders sent to labor

camps in Siberia

STALIN GRABS CONTROL OF ECONOMY

• Command economy – a system where the gov’t

makes all economic decisions

• Five-Year Plan – Stalin’s plan for developing the

USSR’s economy

• Set impossibly high quotas (# goals) for output of

industrial products

• Gov’t limits production of consumer goods

• Ppl suffered shortages of necessary goods

STALIN GRABS CONTROL OF ECONOMY

• TPS: Why did Stalin limit the production of

consumer goods?

• Five-Year Plan – produced impressive results

• Didn’t reach its goals, but made substantial gains

• 2nd plan launched in 1933, equally successful

• Btwn 1928 – 1937 – production of steel increases

25%

STALIN GRABS CONTROL OF ECONOMY

Agricultural Revolution

• 1928 – the gov’t took privately owned farms and

combined into large gov’t-owned farms (collective

farms)

• Resistance by kulaks (wealthy peasants) who wanted

to take back their lands

• Predict: How do you think the gov’t will react?

STALIN GRABS CONTROL OF ECONOMY

Agricultural Revolution

• Secret police herded peasants onto collective farms at

bayonet point

• Btwn 5 mil and 10 mil peasants died b/c of the Agr.

Rev.

• Increased production of crops (wheat) x2

• State farms were est. – operated like factories

• Econ. plans needed

skilled workers

• University and technical

training was key to better

life

• Women’s roles greatly

expanded – men and

women were equal

• Women were forced to join

the labor force

• Women went to schools –

started careers in

engineering and science

• By 1950, 75% of doctors

were women

• Motherhood was a

patriotic duty

• The state provided child

care for all working mothers

POSITIVES OF STALINIST RUSSIA

TOTAL CONTROL ACHIEVED

• By the mid-1930s, Stalin transformed the USSR into

a totalitarian state

• He was unopposed as dictator and maintained authority

over CP

Summary Q: Summarize Josef Stalin’s rise to power and

how his control expanded. (3 sent. minimum)