12 Stalin Revolution: Politics and Power

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12Stalin Revolution Politics and Power
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Overview

1. Main Issues and Themes
2. Stalinism Models
3. Vozhd Stalin as Leader
4. Pillars of Power Party, State, Army, Police
5. Conclusions

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A. Issues and Themes

• Historiography
• Sources
• Theme Stalin Revolution
• New politics
• Economic breakthrough
• Social transformation
• Cultural construction and Sovietization

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B. Stalinism Models

1. Totalitarianism
2. Bureaucracy
3. Social Interpretation
4. Political Culture

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C. Vozhd Stalin as Leader

1. Roots
2. Praktik
3. Ruler
4. Stalinism the doctrines
5. Stalin Imaged and imagined

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Poster Stalins with us
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Stalin and Five-Year Plan
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Stalin and Voroshilov Defending the Fatherland
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Stalin and Daughter, Svetlana
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Stalins Party Card
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Stalin and Gorky (1934)
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Stalin and Child May Day 1938
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Thanks to Our Very Own Stalin for a Happy
Childhood
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Orphans Thanking Stalin for a Happy Childhood
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In the Kremlin, Stalin Is Taking Care of Each of
Us (1940)
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D. Instruments of Power

1. Party
2. State
3. Military
4. Police

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D. Instruments of Power1. The Party

1. Re-building
2. De-structuring
3. Re-staffing
4. Results

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Party Membership
Year Party Members (millions)
1928 1.3
1933 3.6
1938 1.9
1941 3.8
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Women Shock Workers Join the Communist Party!
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D. Instruments of Power2. Soviet State

1. Bureaucracy
2. Stalin Constitution
3. Constraints
4. Rationalization

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1936 Kolkhozniki discuss the Stalin constitution
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Demonstration in Favor of Constitution
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Horror of the Bureaucrat The People Hold Power
(1936)
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Stalin Votes
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1936 Constitution Book cover and Stalin
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Commemorating the Stalin Constitution
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D. Instruments of Power3. Army

1. Taming
2. Rebuilding

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D. Instruments of Power4. Police

1. Reorganizing
2. Power
3. GULAG
4. Leaders Iagoda, Ezhov, Beria

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Iagoda
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Iagoda 1937 File
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Beria NKVD
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Stalin, Svetlana, Beria
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E. Conclusions