1. DVD - Hilter and Stalin: Roots of Evil (50 minutes)
2. (40 minutes) The following STALIN - ROAD TO POWER is incomplete and missing substantial detail. Using the following as a template (the information template and samskrive has already been created), go to STALIN samskrive
Working as a group, use the course books, online sources and your personal knowledge to complete this with SUBSTANTIAL DETAIL. Once finished, email to me and I'll post it online.
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Stalin – Road to power
Lenin died – 1924
-Trotsky – was too smart for his own good
- Politburo – underestimates Stalin
- Stalin - Uses position cleverly
-apparatchiks
-good at organization
Stalin was good at “using” people
NEP introduced by Lenin
-selling surplus on open market
-limited private ownership of industry
Five Year Plans
-rapid industrialization
-massive social unrest
-exploitation of peasants (all effort goes to cities, not countryside)
-collectivization
Purges, Terror, Famine
- political purges (Great Terror 1934-8)
anyone who opposed Stalin (or even not) was eradicated
nameless, faceless terror
1936 - new constitution, one vote for everyone, but an illusion, only communist party members were allowed to run, and those only chosen by committee. Who controlled committees?
Stalin holds the union together
-force, terror, and forced deportations
Russification of the union (Russian culture and language)
Stalin controlled all aspects of Soviet life (cult of personality)
media
government
a hard life
Did Stalin accomplish anything good?
signs of improvement
women and family
education and healthcare
religion
literature and theater , early 1920's (1928 to 1931)
art, architecture, music, cinema
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