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TOTALITARIANISM & STALIN Totalitarianism *What is it? - A type of government where the gov’t takes control of all aspects of public and private life *Key Traits of Totalitarianism 1.Dynamic leader -Unites people -Can convince people to support him or uses force to achieve it 2. Dictatorship/One Party -Dominates gov’t completely and has full control Key Traits Continued… 3. State Controls all parts of society -Business, labor, housing, education, religion, the arts… 4. Modern Technology -Gov’t controls mass communication -Uses it to spread propaganda (biased/incomplete information to sway how people believe and act) -Advanced military weapons 5. State Control of Individuals -Demands loyalty -No basic freedoms -Expect personal sacrifice for the good of the country How do they enforce things? 6. Methods of Enforcement (how do they force?) *Police Terror -Force obedience and crush all opposition -Spying, violence, murder *Indoctrination -Instruction in “gov’t beliefs,” used to mold minds -Control of education to glorify the leader How do they enforce things? *Propaganda & Censorship -Gov’t must approve everything published (news, art, music…) -People constantly surrounded by false info that seems true -Anyone who rebels is imprisoned or killed * Religious/Ethnic Persecution -Blame “enemies of the state” for anything that goes wrong -Groups are targeted for blame and are attacked/terrorized -Members of these groups are often forced to live in restricted areas where they have different rules that apply only to them HOW DID STALIN DO IT? Stalin’s Police State -Secret police & tanks to stop riots -Monitored telephones, mail, planted spies -Arrested and executed millions of “traitors” THE GREAT PURGE 1937-1938 *A campaign of terror to eliminate everyone to threatened his power *Tried thousands of Bolsheviks who helped with the revolution -Executed or send to labor camps *Stalin is now in total control of Soviet Union and Communist Party -8-13 million murdered INDOCRINATION & PROPAGANDA *Education & Indoctrination -Gov’t controlled all schools & ed. -Kids in school learned about the virtues of the Communist Party *Russian Propaganda & Censorship -Controlled all newspapers, movies, radio, & all other sources of info -Writers, artists, composers all censored -All media & art to glorify communism, Stalin, and his programs -No creativity, threat to obedience -Used as means for propaganda RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION *Churches and synagogues destroyed *Religious leaders killed or sent to labor camps *Less freedoms for people, more power for state STALIN CONTROLS ECONOMY * Command Economy: economic system where the gov’t makes all economic decisions *Five-Year Plans -Goals and impossible quotas for production (steel, oil, coal…) -Never met but huge gains made -Consumer goods limited leaving shortages of housing, food, clothing, other necessities AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION * Gov’t seized 25 million privately owned farms *Collective farms -Hundreds of families work on these large now gov’t owned farms to produced food for the state -Kulaks (wealthy peasants) resisted, gov’t took food & eliminated them -Ukraine=5-6 million dead -Anyone who resisted was forced or killed -90% of peasants lived on collectives by 1938 -5-10 million Russians die as a result of Stalin’s Agricultural Revolution