STALIN AND HITLER SIGN NONAGGRESSION PACT IN 1939. Stali

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STALIN

• MAD, BAD, AND SAD

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JOSEF STALIN

• NOT HIS REAL NAME, HES NOT EVEN A RUSSIAN.
• BORN IN GEORGIA (CAUCUSUS) IN 1879.
• IOSIF DZHUGASHVILI. FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER AND A
  DRUNK. HE GREW UP IN A HUT.
• ENROLLS IN SEMINARY
• IS THROWN OUT FOR
• READING MARX

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COMRADE STALIN AS REVOLUTIONARY

• DOES LITTLE DURING RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
• APPOINTED BOLSHEVIK COMMISSAR OF NATIONALITIES
  AFTER THE REVOLUTION

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STALIN COMES TO POWER

• Becomes party secretary
• Gets to appoint those loyal to him to Politburo
• Takes full power by 1929
• Says Lenin wanted him to be his successor

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FIVE YEAR PLANS

• Central government
• planners set goals -
• Soviet industry
• Almost catches up to
• Rest of Europe in less
• Than 15 years
• Right Happy Peasants

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SOCIALIST REALISM

• ART MUST PROMOTE
• THE GOALS OF THEREVOLUTION.

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NEW CITIES AND MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT, SOMETIMES
WITH AMERICAN HELP
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COLLECTIVE FARMS
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ELIMINATING THE KULAKS

• KULAKS WERE PROSPEROUS PEASANTS, WHO SOMETIMES
  LENT MONEY AND SEED TO OTHER PEASANTS
• ACCUSED OF SABOTAGE
• STALIN LAUNCHES A CLASS WAR

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FAMINE IN UKRAINE

• HARVESTS FAIL IN 1932-33

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PURGES

• STALIN REMOVED ANYONE HE PERCEIVED AS A THREAT
• EVENTUALLY, ALMOST ALL THE OLD BOLSHEVIKS OF
  THE REVOLUTION WERE REPLACED BY LITTLE STALINS

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SHOW TRIALS

• Public humiliation of
• Those being purged.
• Started with killing of
• Kirov, a loyal follower
• Of Stalin. Liquidations
• Sometimes amounted
• To hundreds a day.

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ASSASSINATIONS
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REWRITING HISTORY
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CULT OF PERSONALITY
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THE GULAG

• WORK CAMPS FOR DISSENTERS OR ANYONE ACCUSED BY
  PARTY
• MOSTLY IN SIBERIA MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT BY
  SLAVE LABOR

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THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
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STALIN AND HITLER

• HITLER DETESTS COMMUNISM IS DETERMINED TO
  DESTROY IT
• STALIN AND HITLER SIGN NONAGGRESSION PACT IN 1939
• Stalin cooperates in Hitlers invasion of Poland,
  grabs territory.
• Refuses to believe in 1941 that Hitler would
  invade Soviet Union

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STALIN AS WAR LEADER

• FINALLY RALLIES
• PEOPLE AFTER THREE
• WEEKS
• ORDERS COUNTER-
• ATTACK OUTSIDE
• MOSCOW.
• ANYONE WHO FAILS,
• DIES

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SOVIETS DEFEAT NAZIS

• MILLIONS OF LOSSES, PERHAPS 20 MILLION DEAD,
  GREATEST OF WAR
• SOVIETS GET AMERICAN MATERIAL HELP
• ROLL ACROSS EASTERN EUROPE IN 1944-45
• TAKE BERLIN, HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE
• HAVE BIGGEST ARMY IN EUROPE, BEST TANKS

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GENOCIDES

• Chechens, Kalmyks and Balkars
• Small Caucasian peoples accused of cooperating
  with Nazis
• Rounded up and sent into desert in dead of winter
  to die.

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DEATH OF STALIN

• 1953
• DOCTORS PLOT
• NO CLEAR SUCCESSION

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SO WHY WAS STALIN

• MAD
• BAD
• SAD?