Joseph Stalin
Josif
Vissarionovich
Djugashvili
1922-1953
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Totalitarian Rule
A form of government in which a one-party
dictatorship (communist) controls all aspect of
life of its citizens.
• Social
• Economic
• Political
• Dress,Watch,Read, Eat, Work
Elements of Control
• Censorship (controlling the media)
• Secret Police
• Fear and Terror (The Great Purges)
The Great Purges (cleansing of opposition)
Disloyal (not really but Stalin was paranoid)
party members were:
• Exiled to work camps (Gulags) in Siberia.
• Imprisoned
• Executed
Stalin removed those who:
• Questioned his decisions
• He perceived as rivals
Stalin
• “The loss of one life is a
tragedy, the loss of a million
lives is just a statistic”.
Joseph Stalin
“Death solves all
problems, No man, no
problem”
Stalin's Goals
• To transform the USSR into a modern
industrialized nation that could
compete with the west.
Stalin's Methods
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Stalin established a Command Economy.
Government officials made all economic
decisions.
Central Planning Boards
Government controls all factories, businesses,
and farms
Quotas - government established production
schedules
Stalin Launched a series of Five
Year Plans (1929-1939)
Goals for Industrialization
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Emphasize- Heavy Industry (Production of consumer goods
was ignored)
Steel Mills
Electrical Power Plants
Railroads
Factories
Coal, Oil,
Military goods
Hydroelectric power
Production of consumer goods was ignored
Results of the Five Year Plans
1927
1932
1937
Coal
35 million tons
64 mt (75 mt
target)
128 mt (152 mt
target)
Oil
12 million tons
21 mt (22 mt
target)
29 mt (47 mt
target)
Iron Ore
5 million tons
12 mt (19 mt
target)
unknown
Pig Iron
3 million tons
6 mt (10 mt
target)
15 mt (16 mt
target)
Steel
4 million tons
6 mt (10 mt
target)
18 mt (17 mt
target)
Collectivization
A. Private farms were taken from the peasants.
The peasants were forced to join collectives
which were owned and controlled by the
government.
• B. Goal of Collectivization - The USSR would
become self-sufficient in food production.
• Government controlled prices and farm supplies
• Government set production quotas
• Government distributed all farm production
Propaganda
Propaganda
Reality
Terror Famine
• To suppress Ukrainian Nationalism (resistance
to collectivization) Stalin used famine as a
political tool. He allowed 5,000,000
Ukrainian's to starve to death.
Quotes from Mr. Stalin
Stalin
• “The state is an instrument in the
hands of the ruling class for
suppressing the resistance of its class
enemies”.
Winners do what they
have to do, losers do
what they want to do.
Life in Russia