Transcript Totalitarianism

Agenda – 2-5-13
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BW – Lists on Notes sheet
CW – Totalitarian notes
CW2 – Analyzing propaganda
HW – Lenin Document Markup.
QOTD – “Never tell me the odds”
-Han Solo
Totalitarianism
Stalin’s USSR
Totalitarianism
• A government that controls every aspect
of life.
Traits of Totalitarianism
• Ideology- set goals for the state, glorifies &
justifies state actions
• State Control of Individuals- demand
loyalty, denies rights, state above
individual
• Enforcement-police terror, indoctrination,
censorship, & persecution
• Technology-mass propaganda, weapons
More Traits
• State Control of Society- Controls all
public life (art, education, housing, labor,
religion, etc.)
• One Party Rule- no other options
• Dynamic Leader-unites the people,
symbolizes the gov’t, & cult of personality
Stalin’s USSR
• Stalin eliminated all enemies, real &
imagined
• 1937-1938 The Great Purge eliminated
any threats to his power, thousands were
put into labor camps or executed
• Current estimates are 20 million were
executed during his rule.
Propaganda
• Censorship-the state controlled ALL media
• Images & stories were all meant to glorify
the state & leaders
• Government controlled ALL education
from nursery school through university
• Religious persecution- Stalin opposed all
religion, wanted people to worship the
state, no divided loyalty
Economy
• Command Economy-government
controlled everything, means of
production, prices, etc.
• Five Year Plans- developed to modernize
the USSR, set impossible goals, failed the
people miserably, but did industrialize
USSR
• Collective farms-peasants forced to move
Society
• More options- people had some social
mobility, anyone could become anything if
they worked & went to school
• Women could do any job & the
government provided child care but the
women still had to care for the home &
raise the children, it was a patriotic duty
Stalin’s Success
• Stalin achieved complete control of the
USSR
• USSR was an industrial & political power
in the world
• He required complete conformity &
obedience & stifled all creativity because it
was a threat