Stalin’s Rise to Power

Lecture Power Point Presentation

Teacher Instructions• Copy 1-per-student,back-to-back, “Cornell

Notes – Stalin’s Rise to Power”• Copy 1-per-student, back-to-back, “Graphic

Organizer/Sensory Figure” (found at the end of the power point)

• As you watch the film, “Stalin” stop periodically to have the students complete the graphic organizer.

• For a wrap-up assessment, students complete the “Sensory Figure”

CA Standard 10.7.2

•Trace Stalin's rise to power in Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the the Soviet Union and the connection between economic connection between economic policies, political policies, the policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).in Ukraine).

Objective

•Students will be able to trace Stalin’s rise to power and analyze his political policies in the Soviet Union under a Totalitarian state by completing a graphic organizer.

Essential Question

•What was the Soviet Union like under the leadership of Stalin?

Film Clip: Stalin Propaganda

Pair-Share

• After viewing “Stalin Propaganda” discuss the following questions with your partner.

• 1. What is propaganda.• 2. How is Stalin portrayed in the

propaganda posters? Why do you think this is?

• 3. Why do countries use propaganda?

1. From Lenin to StalinA Under Lenin, the Communist Party

used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.

Lenin is followed by Joseph Stalin.

Stalin creates a totalitarian society in Russia.

1. From Lenin to StalinA Under Lenin, the Communist Party

used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.

B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over

i. tried to make USSR a modern industrial state

Russia had missed the Capitalist phase

Stalin tried to skip Capitalist phase by allowing the state

to develop the Russian economy

eventually the state would “hand over” control of the

economy to the “dictatorship of the proletariat”…

huge factories were built with millions of

people being encouraged to work to

make the state stronger

farm land was taken away by the government and peasants forced to

work on huge collectivized farms

Stalin introduced 5-year-plans for industrial and

agricultural improvements

1. From Lenin to StalinA Under Lenin, the Communist Party used

the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.

B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over i. tried to make USSR a modern industrial stateii. all economic and agricultural activity under

government controliii. 5-year-plans to increase production

Stalin’s Great Purge

In 1934 Stalin targeted his enemies

for elimination.

By 1939 Stalin had complete control of

the country.

Historians estimate that Stalin was responsible for

between 8-13 million Russians.

1. From Lenin to StalinA Under Lenin, the Communist Party used the army

and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.

B. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over i. tried to make USSR a modern industrial stateii. all economic and agricultural activity under

government controliii. 5-year-plans to increase production

C. In 1934 Stalin started terror - Great Purge (4 million people were purged and almost 800,000 were executed).

How did Stalin maintain control over the USSR?

Propaganda

• government controlled all media

• encouraged obedience to the state

Secret police

• arrested opposition

• spied on people

• even family members spied

Censorship

• against the law to criticize

• government controlled everything people heard, saw, or read

Terror

• Great Purge

• constant fear of midnight “knock on the door”

• sent to labor camps - gulags

2. Life in a Totalitarian StateA. Stalin used secret police,

propaganda, censorship, and terror to establish a totalitarian state.

B. Leaders were Communist Party members, industrial managers, military, scientists, and some artists and writers.

“Literature, the cinema, the arts are levers in the hands of the proletariat which must be used to show the masses positive models of initiative and heroic labor.”

Socialist Realism

2. Life in a Totalitarian StateA. Stalin used secret police, propaganda,

censorship, and terror to establish a totalitarian state.

B. Leaders were Communist Party members, industrial managers, military, scientists, and some artists and writers.

C. Artists and writers forced to use “socialist realism” (tried show Soviet life in a positive way).

Film Activity•As you watch the film about Stalin, complete the corresponding graphic organizer: •Key Aspects of Stalin’s Totalitarian State in Russia

Stalin’s Totalitarian State

K e y A s p e c t s o f S t a l i n ’s T o t a l i t a r i a n S t a t e i n R u s s i a

1. Industrial Policies 2. Agricultural Policies

3. Police Terror

4. Indoctrination

5. Propaganda and Censorship

6. Religious Persecution

Why did Stalin push Russia? ______ ______________________________ What happened to the farmers who resisted? ______________________ ______________________________

T/F- The collective farm system doubled the crops in 1938. __________ T/F- The Entire Kulak community in the Ukraine was saved. ____________ T/F- Stalin used fear to keep control__

Question of the day- How did Stalin maintain control of his people? _______________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________

Film Clip: Stalin

Wrap-Up Sensory Figure

• Using the information you learned about Stalin, complete the sensory figure.

Stalin’s Totalitarian State

K e y A s p e c t s o f S t a l i n ’s T o t a l i t a r i a n S t a t e i n R u s s i a

1. Industrial Policies 2. Agricultural Policies

3. Police Terror

4. Indoctrination

5. Propaganda and Censorship

6. Religious Persecution

Why did Stalin push Russia? ______ ______________________________ What happened to the farmers who resisted? ______________________ ______________________________

T/F- The collective farm system doubled the crops in 1938. __________ T/F- The Entire Kulak community in the Ukraine was saved. ____________ T/F- Stalin used fear to keep control__

Question of the day- How did Stalin maintain control of his people? _______________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________