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Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953
Totalitarian Government in the Soviet Union
Totalitarian government is the exact opposite of liberal democracy…
• Suppress individual liberties
• Abolish all competing political parties
• Eliminate or regulate private property
• Use the bureaucracy and technology to impose its ideology and enforce its commands
-the ultimate goal of a totalitarian state is…
• Total control of the individual- what is believed, what values are held…
• There are no private moral judgements, no individual thought, no individual conscience…
• People have no natural rights…, they are building blocks for a new social order...
Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashavili
1879-1953
• Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from a poor, undeveloped agricultural country into one of the world’s industrial and military giants.
• Stalin’s early years…
1888-1894 attended local church school
• Tiflis Theological Seminary
Stalin arrest records…
As a revolutionary, Stalin .…
• helped organize workers’ strikes…
• set up a secret press to spread Marxist ideas…distributed illegal pamphlets…
• participated in train and bank robberies…
• by 1912, was a member of the inner circle of the Bolshevik party.
• Lenin and Stalin in Finland
Stalin’s “second death” strategy
• 1927 expelled from the Communist party
• 1928 exiled to Siberia• 1929 deported to
Turkey/Mexico• 1940 murdered
Planned Economy or Command Economy
Stalin’s Industrial policies
• Initiated five year plans to promote the production of heavy machinery
• Focused on building steel mills, cement plants and oil refineries.
• Limited production of consumer goods like clothing and cosmetics.
Stalin’s Agricultural policies
• Eliminated wealthy, land-owning kulaks
• Initiated Collectivization- large government farms called “collectives” replaced private plots.
Stalin’s Political policies- Dictatorship of the Communist Party
• Created a secret police with unlimited power to crush dissenters critical of Soviet life
• Strictly controlled the minority nationalities• Used “show trials” to eliminate and intimidate all
potential rivals • Used art & literature to glorify himself and the
Communist State
Stalin’s Social/Cultural policies…“The Cult of personality”
• Mandated & expanded education at all levels• Promoted educational opportunities for women• Censored all forms of creative thinking and
expression • Replaced religious teachings with Communist
ideals
• THE END……. any questions my comrades?
Any Questions?
The End
• Read: A. 0. Advienko- “Cult of Stalin”
• Russian religious tradition: worship of the saints and veneration of the Tsar were common practices…
• Stalin intensified this tradition, leading to the “cult of personality” – the deliberate fixation on an all powerful leader, whose personality exemplified the challenge of extraordinary times.