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Do Now:
 In what way do Napoleon
and the pigs manipulate and
control the animals in
chapters 3-6?
Key Words:
 Five Year Plans: series of plans to industrialize
the Soviet Union through government force
 Command economy: an economy where the
government directs all production and
distribution
I. Consolidating Control
 After exiling Trotsky, Stalin was in
total control.
 Stalin predicted there would be
another world war in the future
(he was right).
 He believed the Soviet Union needed
to rapidly industrialize in order
to prepare for war.
II. Forced Industrialization
 All production was under government control and
direction.
 Government set high quotas for production –
people were punished if they failed to meet them.
 Forced labor camps were sometimes used for
those who were deemed not to be working hard
enough.
 Production focused on raw materials and
military technology
 Consumer goods were ignored.
III. Propaganda
 Industrialization was encouraged with
propaganda
 Posters and slogans encouraged people to
work harder
A propaganda poster of
1934. It is titled: Peasants
can live like a Human
Being'. Study the poster can you see how it is
promising people the
following:
enough to eat,
adequate clothing,
consumer goods,
electricity,
education,
happiness.
"Full steam
ahead for the
last year of
the Five Year
Plan!"
This poster from 1929 attacks eight
groups that were frequently scapegoated
(clockwise from top left): landlords,
kulaks (rich peasants), journalists,
capitalists, White Russians, supporters
of Trotsky, priests, and drunkards.
The last stanza of the poem underneath
it reads:
These dogs that have not been thrown into jail
Everyone defending the bad old ways –
Put an evil curse on the Five-Year Plan
And declare war on it.
They threaten its disruption, realising
That it spells their utter ruination!
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