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Totalitarianism
Chapter 14 Section 2
Totalitarianism
 Stalin
Becomes Dictator
 Stalin:
“man of steel”
 Lenin believed Stalin to be a
dangerous man
 concentrated power
 1928, total command
 Trotsky exiled 1929
Totalitarianism
 Stalin
Builds a Totalitarian State
 Lenin,
Trotsky: worldwide Communist
Rev.
 focused on Russian development
 “socialism in one country”
 centralized state control
 over public and private life
 “sense of security”
Totalitarianism
 Stalin

Seizes Control of the Economy
An Industrial Revolution
 Command
economy
 both industrial and agriculture
 “Five Year Plans”
 rapid industrial growth, strengthen defense
 impossibly high quota
 controlled the worker’s life
 imprisoned or executed those not contributing
 1928-1937: production up 25%
Totalitarianism
 An
Agricultural Revolution
 more
brutal
 seized 25+ million farms (private)
 “collective farms”
 protests by peasants
 terror and violence
 5-10 million died, or shipped to Siberia
 kulaks, eliminated them
 1938, 90% of peasants on farms
Weapons of Totalitarianism

Police Terror
destroy his enemies
 executed millions of “so-called” traitors
 1934, Great Purge, members of the
Communist
 “crimes against the Soviet state.”
 secret police not above the law “quotas of
criminals”
 1939: Stalin has “total” control of government
and the party
 8-13 million died

Weapons of Totalitarianism
 Indoctrination
 instruction
of the government’s beliefs- to
mold the mind
 party leaders lectured workers and
peasants on the ideas of communism
 State supported youth groups…training
ground
Weapons of Totalitarianism
 Propaganda
 biased
or incomplete information…to sway
people
 soviet newspapers, radio… glorified
achievements
 “Socialist realism”... artistic style praises
Soviet life and Communist values
 Stalin didn’t tolerate individual creativity
 controlled newspapers, motion pictures,
radio, and other forms of communication
Weapons of Totalitarianism
 Religious
 replace
Persecution
religious teaching…with
communists ideas
 atheists
 Russian Orthodox Church…main target
 destroyed churches and synagogues
 Religious leaders…killed or sent to labor
camps
Daily Life Under Stalin

Soviet Women
 1917,
women won equal rights
 new educational opportunities
 1950, 75% of doctors were women
 responsible for household and child care
 motherhood…patriotic duty
Daily Life Under Stalin
 Education
 government
controlled all education
 not merely indoctrination
 university and tech training…key to
better life