Transcript Totalitarianism Case Study: Stalinist Russia

Totalitarianism
Case Study: Stalinist Russia
By: Jennifer Y.& Erica T.
Section 1 – Totalitarianism
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Review & Background
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
Man of Steel – Joseph Stalin
Totalitarianism
Similar characteristics of all totalitarian States
An Industrial Revolution
An Agricultural Revolution
Review & Background
 Review
 Orthodox Marxism
 Socialism
 Communism
 Capitalism
 Background
 Lenin Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
 Great Depression
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
 Leon Trotsky
 well-educated and
cultured
 Theories
 World Revolution
 Permanent
Revolution
 Trotskyism
 criticized Stalin's
theory
 Joseph Stalin
 rough and crude
 Theories
 Socialism in one
country
 Stalinism
 broke out from
Trotsky and Lenin
Man of Steel – Joseph Stalin
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0
UH7KjzJwvM
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x
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Totalitarianism
 Totalitarianism
 Stalin builds a totalitarian state.
 Stalin’s dream
 Great Depression
 Other totalitarian governments emerged.
 Germany – Hitler
 Italy – Mussolini
 China - Mao Zedong
 North Korea - Kim Il Sung
 Result of Totalitarianism
Similar characteristics of all
totalitarian States
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Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
Dynamic Leader
Ideology
State Control Over All Sectors of Society
State Control Over the Individual
Dependence on Modern Technology
Organized Violence
An Industrial Revolution
 1st and 2nd Five-Year
Plan
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Coal
Steel
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1928
1933
1938
set impossibly high
quotas
 Government controlled
the worker's life.
 made impressive gains.
 agricultural nation →
industrial nation
An Agricultural Revolution
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Livestock
Wheat
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1928
1933
1938
 1st and 2nd Five-Year
Plan
 Collective farms
 Resistances of
peasants
 Kulaks
 development
Section2 – Weapons of and daily
life under totalitarianism
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Police Terror
Indoctrination and Propaganda
Censorship
Religious Persecution
Comparing Revolutions
Soviet Women
Education
Police Terror
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Used terror and violence to stop the opposition
No privacy
GREAT PURGE: campaign of terror.
Eliminate whoever got in Stalin’s way
1939; ended the great purge
Historians said that Stalin is responsible for all
deaths
Indoctrination and Propaganda
 Indoctrination: Instruction in the government’s
beliefs.
 Propaganda: biased or incomplete information
used to sway people to accept certain beliefs or
actions.
 ART was used for Propaganda
 Socialist realism: Artistic style that
praised Soviet life and communist values.
Censorship
 Stalin wouldn’t tolerate individual creativity that
threatened the conformity and obedience
required of citizens in a totalitarian state.
 Controlled ALL medias
 No privacy
 Even children were supposed to tell the
government about what they heard from their
family.
Religious Persecution
 Ideals of communism
 The Russian Orthodox church was the main
target of persecution.
 Other religions also suffered.
 Destroyed religion
Comparing Revolutions
 Russian Revolution was similar to French
revolution.
 Both wanted to destroy social and political
structures.
 Included Violence, and terrorism.
 French=monarchy, Russia=totalitarian.
Soviet Women
 Equal rights
 Under 5year plans, they were forced to join the
labor force.
 Educational opportunities.
 Medicine was popular.
 1950: There were 75% of women Soviet doctors
 Job, child, and housework.
 Motherhood was a patriotic duty.
Pictures
Pilots
Doctors
Soldiers
Education
 Controlled all education.
 College professors and students who went
against the communist party lost their jobs or
faced imprisonment.
 Needed many skilled workers.
Sources
 http://pamolson.org/TransSibMoscow.jpg
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
d/dc/Hammer_and_sickle.png
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UH7KjzJwv
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEtHZAxGdkI