Transcript Elements of Totalitarianism

Elements of Totalitarianism
• Divide your page into 4 sections
• Label each section
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Police Terror
Indoctrination
Propaganda & Censorship
Religious/Ethnic Persecution
• Write a definition for each element
• Draw an image that illustrates the element
• When you are finished, share your work with
your neighbor
1984 Book Cover
• Design a book cover for 1984
• Include the title and author
• Use images and text that illustrate life
under a totalitarian regime
• Color the cover
• Tape covers on the wall so the class can
walk around and look at all the covers.
• Vote on the cover that best illustrates all
the elements of Totalitarianism
Draw this in your notebook
Use pages 442-445 to find
information to fill in each of
Six characteristics
Agricultural policies
Industrial Policies
Art/religion
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
Education
Propaganda methods
Control methods
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
• Industrial policies
– Five-Year Plan to promote industrial growth; limited production of
consumer goods
• Agricultural policies
– Established collective farms; eliminated wealthy peasants
• Art/religion
– Controlled media; censored all forms of creativity; replaced
religious teachings with Communist ideals; persecuted the
Russian Orthodox Church
• Education
– Expanded and controlled education at all levels; opened
educational opportunities to women
• Control methods
– Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition;
launched Great Purge
• Propaganda methods
– Used indoctrination and art to glorify the Communist state;
created state-supported youth groups to train future leaders