Transcript Stalin`s Rise to Power

Stalin’s Rise to Power
Lecture Power Point Presentation
Teacher Instructions
• Copy 1-per-student,back-to-back, “Cornell
Notes – Stalin’s Rise to Power”
• Copy 1-per-student, back-to-back,
“Graphic Organizer/Sensory Figure”
(found at the end of the power point)
• As you watch the film, “Stalin” stop
periodically to have the students complete
the graphic organizer.
• For a wrap-up assessment, students
complete the “Sensory Figure”
CA Standard 10.7.2
• Trace Stalin's rise to power in
the Soviet Union and the
connection between economic
policies, political policies, the
absence of a free press, and
systematic violations of human
rights (e.g., the Terror Famine
in Ukraine).
Objective
• Students will be able to trace
Stalin’s rise to power and
analyze his political policies in
the Soviet Union under a
Totalitarian state by completing
a graphic organizer.
Essential Question
• What was the Soviet
Union like under the
leadership of Stalin?
Film Clip: Stalin Propaganda
Pair-Share
• After viewing “Stalin Propaganda”
discuss the following questions with
your partner.
• 1. What is propaganda.
• 2. How is Stalin portrayed in the
propaganda posters? Why do you think
this is?
• 3. Why do countries use propaganda?
1. From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used
the army and secret police to enforce its
will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist
and socialist ideas.
Lenin is followed by Joseph Stalin.
Stalin creates a totalitarian
society in Russia.
1.
From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used
the army and secret police to enforce its
will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist
and socialist ideas.
B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
i.
tried to make USSR a modern industrial state
farm land was taken away
Russia
had
missed the
by the
government
and
Capitalist
phase
peasants
forced
to work on
huge collectivized farms
Stalin tried to skip Capitalist
phase by allowing the state
to develop the Russian
economy
eventually the state would
“hand over” control of the
economy to the “dictatorship
of the proletariat”…
Stalin introduced 5-yearhuge factories were built
plans for industrial and
with millions of people
agricultural improvements
being encouraged to work
to make the state stronger
1.
From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used
the army and secret police to enforce its
will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist
and socialist ideas.
B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
i. tried to make USSR a modern industrial state
ii. all economic and agricultural activity under
government control
iii. 5-year-plans to increase production
Stalin’s Great Purge
In 1934 Stalin targeted
his enemies for
elimination.
By 1939 Stalin had
complete control of the
country.
Historians estimate that
Stalin was responsible for
between 8-13 million
Russians.
1.
From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used
the army and secret police to enforce its
will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist
and socialist ideas.
B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
i. tried to make USSR a modern industrial state
ii. all economic and agricultural activity under
government control
iii. 5-year-plans to increase production
C. In 1934 Stalin started terror - Great
Purge (4 million people were purged and
almost 800,000 were executed).
How did Stalin maintain control over the USSR?
Secret police
Propaganda
Censorship
Terror
• arrested
opposition
• government
controlled all
media
• against the law
to criticize
• Great Purge
• spied on people
• even family
members spied
• encouraged
obedience to
the state
• government
controlled
everything
people heard,
saw, or read
• constant fear
of midnight
“knock on the
door”
• sent to labor
camps - gulags
2. Life in a Totalitarian State
A. Stalin used secret police,
propaganda, censorship, and terror
to establish a totalitarian state.
B. Leaders were Communist Party
members, industrial managers,
military, scientists, and some artists
and writers.
“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.”
Socialist
Realism
2. Life in a Totalitarian State
A. Stalin used secret police,
propaganda, censorship, and terror
to establish a totalitarian state.
B. Leaders were Communist Party
members, industrial managers,
military, scientists, and some artists
and writers.
C. Artists and writers forced to use
“socialist realism” (tried show Soviet
life in a positive way).
Film Activity
•As you watch the film about Stalin, complete
the corresponding graphic organizer:
•Key Aspects of Stalin’s Totalitarian State in Russia
Key Aspects of Stalin’s Totalitarian State
in Russia
1. Industrial Policies
3. Police Terror
2. Agricultural Policies
Why did Stalin push Russia? ______
______________________________
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
T/F- The collective farm system
doubled the crops in 1938. __________
What happened to the farmers who
resisted? ______________________
______________________________
5. Propaganda and Censorship
T/F- The Entire Kulak community in
the Ukraine was saved. ____________
T/F- Stalin used fear to keep control__
6. Religious Persecution
4. Indoctrination
Question of the day- How did Stalin maintain
control of his people? _______________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Film Clip: Stalin
Wrap-Up Sensory Figure
• Using the
information you
learned about
Stalin, complete
the sensory
figure.
Key Aspects of Stalin’s Totalitarian State
in Russia
1. Industrial Policies
3. Police Terror
2. Agricultural Policies
Why did Stalin push Russia? ______
______________________________
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
T/F- The collective farm system
doubled the crops in 1938. __________
What happened to the farmers who
resisted? ______________________
______________________________
5. Propaganda and Censorship
T/F- The Entire Kulak community in
the Ukraine was saved. ____________
T/F- Stalin used fear to keep control__
6. Religious Persecution
4. Indoctrination
Question of the day- How did Stalin maintain
control of his people? _______________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________