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 Czar
Nicholas II
 Ruled as last Russian Monarch
 1894-1917
 Vladimir Lenin
 Leader of the Bolshevik party
 Strong supporter of the working class
 Utilized propoganda
 Joseph Stalin
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Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia on
December 2, 1879.
Stalin was a sickly child who lived
in poverty for his childhood.
As a child, Stalin studied
for a career in priesthood.
Later, he became interested in
revolutions around the world.
In fact, he was actually put in a cell
for reading a book on the French
Revolution.
Stalin joined the Bolsheviks and
was exiled to Siberia.
 Vladimir
Lenin died in
January 21, 1924.
 Following his death, a
struggle for the leadership
of Russia took place.
 The two emerging powers
were Trotsky and Stalin.
 Joseph Stalin put his own
followers in top political
jobs and became leader in
1928.
Vladimir Lenin
Stalin controlled all aspects of
society, in what is called a
totalitarian rule.
 Created several Five-Year Plans,
which were put in place to help
industrialize Russia.
 Stalin wanted increased production
of everything, especially roads, oil,
and steel.
 Stalin was a firm supporter of
propaganda, as he wanted to show
the greatness of himself and Russia
 Controlling common aspects of life,
socialist realism enforced to
promote the progression of
socialist and communist goals
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Stalin put a command economy in
place, meaning the government
controlled all economic decisions.
Stalin put collectivization in place.
Collectives were farms were many
farmers lived together, and the
government took most of the goods
they produced.
Stalin feared opposing party
leaders, so him and his secret police
punished writers, army leaders, and
Old Bolsheviks in what was known
as the Great Purge.
Many of these people were sent to
work in the gulags
 Stalin
is infamous for
being one of the most
ruthless and vicious
rulers of all time.
 Stalin killed twice as
many people as Hitler
did.
 Stalin
helped to
industrialize and
modernize Russia.
 Joseph
Stalin and the U.S.S.R had a negative
impact on the interwar era.
 Under Stalin’s Five-Year Plans, Russian
citizens had nearly no freedom.
 Stalin created the first entirely totalitarian
state in the world.
 Stalin was a communist and revolted the
idea of capitalism or free trade.
 Stalin made Russia an industrial nation that
produced lots of goods like steel and coal.
 Stalin
and the U.S.S.R had a negative impact on the
world in the 30’s.
 Stalin purged his people and killed millions of
innocent civilians.
 Stalin’s collectivization reduced the production of
agricultural goods.
 The Great Depression had a negative impact on
Russia. Overproduction led to a crash in the stock
market.
 Russification, or the act of adopting Russian
culture, spread to Ukraine and Poland.
 During The Ukrainian Genocide, over 6 million
Ukrainians were killed by the Soviet Union.
 http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-
articles/russia-in-the-late-1920s-19302905248.html
 http://www.chennaiads.com/y2kevents/192
0_30.htm
 http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/inde
x.php/t-32285.html
 http://wthistory.wikispot.org/Major_Russian
_Leaders,_1900-1939