Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin

1. Stalin Gains Control
2. Building a Totalitarian State
3. Stalins Economy
4. The Great Purge

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A. Stalin Gains Control

• Lenin dies in 1924
• Both Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin want to gain
  control of the nation

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• Joseph Stalin becomes the next premier
• Really a dictator
• Trotsky is exiled and flees to Mexico

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• 1st goal of Stalins was to make the USSR into a
  modern industrial power
• Did NOT worry about the military

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B. Building a Totalitarian State

• Totalitarianism a government that controls
  every public and private aspect of life
• Stalin turns the U.S.S.R. into a totalitarian
  state

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• Stalin uses
• Indoctrination (brainwashing)
• Propaganda
• Censorship (blocking material you dont want
  people to see)
• Religious persecutions
• Controlled education

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C. Stalins Economy

• Five Year Plan increase production of steel,
  coal, oil, electricity.
• Gulags Prison Camps for resisters

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• Created Collective Farms large, government
  owned farms
• Kulaks (wealthy peasants) resisted
• Were executed

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D. The Great Purge 1934-1939

• Campaign to eliminate all opposition to Stalins
  power
• Executed anyone who he thought was a threat
• Including other communists

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• 8 13 million people were killed
• Every citizen was afraid