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STALIN:

STALIN:. MAD, BAD, AND SAD. JOSEF STALIN. NOT HIS REAL NAME, HE’S NOT EVEN A RUSSIAN. BORN IN GEORGIA (CAUCUSUS) IN 1879. IOSIF DZHUGASHVILI. FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER AND A DRUNK. HE GREW UP IN A HUT. ENROLLS IN SEMINARY; IS THROWN OUT FOR READING MARX.

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  1. STALIN: MAD, BAD, AND SAD

  2. JOSEF STALIN NOT HIS REAL NAME, HE’S NOT EVEN A RUSSIAN. BORN IN GEORGIA (CAUCUSUS) IN 1879. IOSIF DZHUGASHVILI. FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER AND A DRUNK. HE GREW UP IN A HUT. ENROLLS IN SEMINARY; IS THROWN OUT FOR READING MARX

  3. “COMRADE” STALIN AS REVOLUTIONARY • DOES LITTLE DURING RUSSIAN REVOLUTION • APPOINTED BOLSHEVIK COMMISSAR OF NATIONALITIES AFTER THE REVOLUTION

  4. STALIN COMES TO POWER • Becomes party secretary • Gets to appoint those loyal to him to Politburo • Takes full power by 1929 • Says Lenin wanted him to be his successor

  5. FIVE YEAR PLANS • Central government planners set goals - Soviet industry Almost catches up to Rest of Europe in less Than 15 years Right: Happy Peasants

  6. SOCIALIST REALISM • ART MUST PROMOTE THE GOALS OF THEREVOLUTION.

  7. NEW CITIES AND MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT, SOMETIMES WITH AMERICAN HELP

  8. COLLECTIVE FARMS

  9. ELIMINATING THE KULAKS • KULAKS WERE PROSPEROUS PEASANTS, WHO SOMETIMES LENT MONEY AND SEED TO OTHER PEASANTS • ACCUSED OF SABOTAGE • STALIN LAUNCHES A CLASS WAR

  10. FAMINE IN UKRAINE • HARVESTS FAIL IN 1932-33

  11. PURGES STALIN REMOVED ANYONE HE PERCEIVED AS A THREAT EVENTUALLY, ALMOST ALL THE “OLD BOLSHEVIKS” OF THE REVOLUTION WERE REPLACED BY “LITTLE STALINS”

  12. SHOW TRIALS • Public humiliation of Those being purged. Started with killing of Kirov, a loyal follower Of Stalin. Liquidations Sometimes amounted To hundreds a day.

  13. ASSASSINATIONS

  14. REWRITING HISTORY

  15. CULT OF PERSONALITY

  16. THE GULAG • WORK CAMPS FOR DISSENTERS OR ANYONE ACCUSED BY PARTY • MOSTLY IN SIBERIA – MASSIVE PROJECTS BUILT BY SLAVE LABOR

  17. THE GULAG “ARCHIPELAGO”

  18. STALIN AND HITLER • HITLER DETESTS COMMUNISM; IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY IT • STALIN AND HITLER SIGN NONAGGRESSION PACT IN 1939 • Stalin cooperates in Hitler’s invasion of Poland, grabs territory. • Refuses to believe in 1941 that Hitler would invade Soviet Union

  19. STALIN AS WAR LEADER • FINALLY RALLIES PEOPLE AFTER THREE WEEKS ORDERS COUNTER- ATTACK OUTSIDE MOSCOW. ANYONE WHO FAILS, DIES

  20. SOVIETS DEFEAT NAZIS • MILLIONS OF LOSSES, PERHAPS 20 MILLION DEAD, GREATEST OF WAR • SOVIETS GET AMERICAN MATERIAL HELP • ROLL ACROSS EASTERN EUROPE IN 1944-45 • TAKE BERLIN, HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE • HAVE BIGGEST ARMY IN EUROPE, BEST TANKS

  21. GENOCIDES • Chechens, Kalmyks and Balkars • Small Caucasian peoples accused of cooperating with Nazis • Rounded up and sent into desert in dead of winter to die.

  22. DEATH OF STALIN • 1953 • “DOCTORS’ PLOT” • NO CLEAR SUCCESSION

  23. SO WHY WAS STALIN MAD BAD SAD?

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