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By. Pola Shim & Minhyo Moon
Totalitarianism
A government that takes total,
centralized state control over
every aspect of public and
private life
Challenges the highest values prized by
Western democracies – reason, freedom,
human dignity, and the worth of the
individual.
Key Traits of Totalitarianism
Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
Dynamic Leader
Ideology
State control over all sectors of Society
State control over individual
Dependence on Modern Technology
Organized Violence
Totalitarian Leaders
They appear to provide a sense of security
and to give a direction for the future.
Hitler (Germany) & Mussolini (Italy)
 1920s~1930s: shaping their
visions of a totalitarian state
Mao Zedong (China)
 After 1949: used similar tactics to
Stalin’s to establish totalitarian control
Kim Il Sung (North Korea)
 1948~1994: ruled over a
totalitarian Communist state
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
 1922~1927: began to climb
up the top of the government
 1922: General secretary of
the Communist Party
 1924: placed many of his
supporters in key positions
 1928: total command of the
Communist Party
 1929: forced Trotsky into exile
Stalin seizes control of the economy
Command economy: a system
in which the government makes
all economic decisions.
Under this system, political leaders
identify the country’s economic needs and
determine how to fulfill them.
Industrial Revolution in Soviet
1928: Stalin outlined the first several Five
Year Plans
Government: controlled every aspect of
the worker’s life
Secret police: standing by to imprison/kill
people who didn’t contribute
1933: second plan was launched
1928~1937: industrial production
increased more than 25%
Agricultural Revolution in Soviet
 1928: government began to seize over 25million
collective farms
 Collective farms: privately owned farms
 5mill.~10mill. peasants died  force of Stalin
 Kulaks: executed or were sent by the
government
 Kulaks: a class of wealthy peasants
 1938: The country produced almost twice the
wheat
: more than 90% of all peasants lived on
collective farms
Life Under Stalin
Soviet Women:
- won equal rights
- helped the state-controlled
economy prosper
- given new educational
opportunities
- responsible for housework and
child care
Education:
- was controlled by the government
- Children learned the virtues of Communist Party
- was not merely indoctrination
Weapons of Totalitarianism
 Police Terror:
Dictators started to
use Terror as their
weapon for
totalitarianism
●Indoctrination:
instruction in the
government’s belief to
mold people’s minds.
●Propaganda:
biases or incomplete
information used to sway
people to accept certain
beliefs or actions
 Great Purge: a campaign
of terror launched by Stalin
which was directed at
eliminating anyone who
threatened his power
Newspaper and Radio:
Radio broadcasting everyday
about the glorified the
achievements of the dictator
and his communism
Social Realism: an artistic
style that praise Soviet life and
Communist values
Religious Persecution
Communists aimed in replacing
religious teachings
The police destroyed great churches
and many religious leaders were
killed or sent away
 Because Communists thought the
religious ideas were not a good
influence with their idea of Communism.
Comparing Revolutions
 The Russian Rev. was similar to the French Rev.
(more than the American Rev.)
Russian Rev. & French Rev. American Rev.
-Attempted to destroy
existing social and
political structures
-Used violence and
terror to control people
-Expanded English
political ideas to a
constitutional
government
 That built on many
existing structures
But Russian Revolution
established a totalitarian state.
WHY?
 The idea of Totalitarianism
influenced leaders up to recent
times.
Recent dictators have used
Stalin’s tactics and Totalitarianism
ideas for seizing total control over
individuals and the state.
Vocabulary
 Totalitarianism: a government that take total
power and control over aspects of public and
private life
 Command economy: a system in which the
government make all economic decisions
 The Five Years Plan: set numerous goals to
increase the out put of steel, coal, oil, and
electricity
 Collective farms: privately owned farms
 Kulaks: executed or sent by the government
 Socialist Realism: an artistic style that
praised soviet life and communist values
The End
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