TOTALITARIANISMCh 30.2

EQ

What is totalitarianism? What were some of the characteristics of

Stalin’s totalitarian regime?

AKS

46b - determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five Year Plan

46f - describe the nature of totalitarianism and the police state that existed in Russia, Germany, and Italy and how they differ from authoritarian governments

Review

What was the name of the dynasty of the last Czar?

Define proletariat. What did Karl Marx predict they would do?

Who were the Bolsheviks? Who was their leader?

What was Nicholas II made to do as a result of the March Revolution?

What group ends up taking over Russia? What is the new name?

Totalitarianism

A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life Police terror Indoctrination Propaganda and censorship Religious or ethnic persecution

Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953)

Lenin’s successor Leader of Communist Party – one party

rule Great Purge

Terror campaign aimed at anyone opposed to the communist party – 8 – 13 million dead

Soviet Economy

Command Economy Government makes all decisions

Five-Year Plans Set impossible economic goals Rapid industrialization

Increase of Steal, coal, oil, electricity but limited production of consumer goods (housing clothes, food)

Collective Farms Combined privately owned individual farms into

large government owned farms

Review

What is totalitarianism? What methods of control used by

totalitarian regimes? How many political parties were in Soviet

Russia? What is a command economy? What was Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?