Transcript Slide 1
Lenin Gets Control • Red Army claims victory • Lenin takes control • Estb. NEP (New Economic Policy) • By 1928, Russia was producing pre war levels • 1922, the country was renamed U.S.S.R • Bolsheviks renamed the communist party Lenin • Lenin establishes a dictatorship of the party not a dictatorship of the proletariat (Marx pushed for) • Lenin suffers a stroke in 1922, he survives but competition begins to replace him • Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin are the leading men • Lenin dies in 1924, before his death he did not trust Stalin and his use of power • Lenin body is kept in Red Square in Russia Lenin’s Body Stalin Becomes Dictator • Stalin outmaneuvered Trotsky & had total control of the party • Trotsky was exiled from Russia in 1929 • Stalin now Dictator of the country Totalitarianism • Totalitarianism- govt. takes total control over every aspect of human life • To accomplish this control dictators use: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Terror (violence to force obedience) Indoctrination (instruction of govt. beliefs) Propaganda (biased or incomplete information) Censorship (control of the media) Religious or Ethnic Persecution (state must estb. a scapegoat for all of its problems) Stalin Builds a Tolalitarian State • Builds a secret police – Monitored phone lines, read mail & planted informers • Used Russian propaganda – Controlled all newspapers, media, motion pictures & etc… • Government controlled all education – Children learned virtues of the Communist Party • Religious Persecution – Russian Orthodox main target