Transcript Stalinist Russia

Totalitarianism:
Stalinist Russia
What methods does Stalin use to
maintain control?
Stalin’s Economic Plan
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Stalin ends NEP & start his own economic plan – the 5 Year Plans
Stalin wanted rapid industrialization
Quotas were raised for production of steel, oil, coal, & electricity
To meet quotas regular consumer goods were limited
Although the high goals aren’t met, Soviets made huge gains
In 1928 the government took control of all private farms
Farms combined into “collective farms” – producing food for state
People who wouldn’t give up their farms suffered under the Cheka
•Ukrainian kulaks resisted collectivization
•Stalin orders the liquidation of the kulaks
•3 Million were executed or imprisoned –
another 2 million were starved to death
•Up to 10 million soviet citizens were killed
during Stalin’s collectivization plan
Ukrainian Terror Famine
Stalin’s Weapons of Terror
Stalin’s Methods
Examples
Police Terror
•Cheka & spies eliminate opponents
•Sent people to prison camps (Gulags)
•Launches Great Purge (8 to 13 million killed)
Propaganda
•Used artwork, posters & media to spread word of
how good the Soviet Union is doing – enemies
airbrushed out of pictures
Censorship
•Official newspaper Pravda prints only what Stalin
tells them to print
Religious
Persecution
•Soviet Union is an atheist state
•Must teach communism, not religion
•Government controls all schools (education)
•Virtues of communism are taught
•Teachers who resist are victims of Great Purge
Indoctrination
Translation: Beloved Stalin is the people's happiness!