9.2 Notes: Part III
Objective: Describe how
Lenin and Stalin create a
totalitarian Russia.
Main Idea
Lenin and Stalin create a totalitarian state
to help Russia after revolution and civil
war.
What is totalitarianism?
Government control
of entire country
(education, press,
economy)
What changes does Lenin make?
New Economic Policy
(N.E.P.)
Involves small-scale
capitalism, some
government ownership,
and foreign investment
Successful!
What changes does Lenin make?
Political Reforms
Bolsheviks feared Nationalism
Country renamed Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR)
What changes does Lenin make?
Political Reforms (continued)
Bolsheviks rename their party Communist
Party
“A dictatorship of the Communist Party”
What changes does Stalin make?
Lenin suffers a stroke in 1922
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin compete
for power
What changes does Stalin make?
1929 - Trotsky is exiled and Stalin
becomes leader of the Communist party
What changes does Stalin make?
Police Terror
Police enforce governmental
policies
Secret Police
Great Purge = Communist
campaign of terror directed at
eliminating anyone who
threatened his power (8-13
million deaths)
Gulag = forced labor camps
Before…
… After
What changes does Stalin make?
Education & Indoctrination
Schools used to brainwash children
Teachers imprisoned for not teaching
Communist propaganda
What changes does Stalin make?
Propaganda and
Censorship
Propaganda = biased
or one-sided
information
Censorship =
governmental control
of media
“Beloved Stalin is the
People’s Fortune”
What changes does Stalin make?
Religious or Ethnic Persecution
Communism to replace religion
“Museums of atheism”
Russian Orthodox church labeled “enemies of
the state”
What changes does Stalin make?
Stalin’s Five-year Plans
Plan to develop Soviet Union’s economy
Change in Industry – governmental
quotas/limits on economic production
Change in Agriculture – government seizes
private farms
Many peasants fought against the government
"We farmers are liquidating the kulaks as a
class on the basis of complete
collectivization."