10/30 & 11/3 New Unit
Origins & Development of Authoritarian & Single Party
StatesPaper II: Topic 3!!!!!!Rise of Stalin
Do now: Pass back work from 1st QuarterData Tracker &
Reflection Explanation 10/30 & 11/3New UnitThemes The origins
and historical contexts that led to the rise of authoritarian and
single party statesThe role of leaders and ideologies in the rise
to power, and the nature of the states that emergedThe methods used
to established and maintain power in such statesThe domestic
economic and social policies of such regimes, their impact and the
success or failure of such policies AuthoritarianTerm refers to
regimes that are essentially conservative and traditional and that
try to defend existing institutions and keep all sections of
society politically and organizationally passive
Authoritarian regimes are firmly committed to maintaining
traditional structure and values
MarxismKarl Marx (1818 83) theory that human history was largely
determined by the history of class struggles Wrote The Communist
Manifest 1847Workers would overthrow capitalist societyStill would
be a class based societyRuling class = working class (socialist
society)Socialist Society would transform into a communist
societyClassless society
Marxist theory of stagesMarx believed in the idea of permanent
revolutionSeries of stages & after one stage had been achieved,
the next class struggle would begin almost immediately
LeninismOrganized Marxs ideas for political organizationNeed for
small leading group of revolutionariesCreated tension b/w Lenin
& Trotsky (fellow revolutionary)Trotsky said that small group
could lead to dictatorBoth thought revolutionary stages could
happen quickly
Marxism-LeninismTerm created by Stalinused after death of Lenin
(1924)Considered official ideology = all communist parties loyal to
StalinDescribed as orthodox Marxism, which came to mean what Stalin
himself had to say about political and economic issuesMany
Marxists& even communist members of the Communist Party
believed that Stalins ideas & practices were total distortions
of what Marx and Lenin had said and done
Stalinism term used by historians Dictatorial type of ruleReject
socialist democracy:Rejected: government is in the hands of the
peopleRejected: Immediate recall of elected representativesNational
interests over the interests of world revolution
FascismA form of revolutionary ultra-nationalism for national
rebirth extremely strong belief in the superiority of ones own
country & a desire to advance that country at the expense of
others (including war)Destruction of working-class
organizationAnti-Semitism and racism often found at the core
Complicatedas there is no world-view
Dictatorships - used to describe a regime in which democracy,
individual right and parliamentary rule are absent Authoritarian
DictatorshipDo not come to power as a result of mass movement or
revolutionInstead arise due to an existing conservative regime
imposes increasingly undemocratic measuresFirmly committed to
maintaining or restoring traditional structures and values
Totalitarian Dictatorship- total political powerAll aspects of the
state, politics, culture, and spiritual controlled within the
stateDictator is able to impose their will on party, state, and
society Come to power due to mass movement or revolutionExamples:
Hitler Germany, Stalin & Soviet Union
Why authoritarian / totalitarian regimes???People believed that
ideologies like communism were the final truthdid not believe in
democracypeople should not have a choice in how they are governed
or what they believe in
Major Crisis WWI & fall of the Russian Monarchy gave
totalitarian leaders their chancecaused people to turn against
their governments in placeTimelineRoad to Revolution15 eventsAttach
2 sentence justification of why it did or did not contribute to the
Russian Revolution
