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STALIN: CHANGING SOCIETY

STALIN: CHANGING SOCIETY. STALIN: THE GREAT HELMSMAN?. “Stalin offered the people a mixed diet of terror and illusion” - Isaac Deutscher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCh_-zda75k. www.wilsonsalmanac.com . 1936 CONSTITUTION. With the Kulaks gone, can begin a new Socialist order

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STALIN: CHANGING SOCIETY

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  1. STALIN: CHANGING SOCIETY

  2. STALIN: THE GREAT HELMSMAN? “Stalin offered the people a mixed diet of terror and illusion” -Isaac Deutscher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCh_-zda75k www.wilsonsalmanac.com

  3. 1936 CONSTITUTION • With the Kulaks gone, can begin a new Socialist order • Moscow now in control of the Republics • Guarantees rights and freedoms: • Free speech • Free Press • Right to education Only in conformity with the interests of the working people and in order to strengthen the socialist system

  4. Convincing the People: Propaganda Education, Family Values, Work

  5. Dors, 1936 We will change the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan into a republic of abundant literacy

  6. EDUCATION • Compulsory primary education (1930), doubles the number of primary students • Literacy rates improve • Opens 70,000 public libraries • Women represent 58% of higher education in 1940 BUT History textbooks elevate Stalin’s role and minimizes those of his opponents KOMSOMOL: Communist Youth League (1917) to prepare youth for the Communist Party

  7. Brigade KGK, 1931 Female delegate, stand to the fore!Publisher: Ogiz-Izogiz, Moscow/Leningrad ♂Women were needed in the work force and higher education ♂ BUT need to return to traditional values as birth rates decline and crime goes up ♂ Abortion is illegal in 1936 ♂ Women are encouraged to have children: “

  8. MOTHERHOOD MEDAL: 5 CHILDREN Motherhood medal

  9. Order of Mother Heroine 10 Children

  10. Lebeshev, 1936 We do like Stachanov! ! web.library.emory.edu/.../Stalinism/index.

  11. Sergej Senkin, 1931 Under Lenin's banner for the second Five Year Plan!Publisher: Ogiz-Izogiz, Moscow/Leningrad

  12. Sirocenqo, 1938 Long live the great Stalin

  13. CULT OF PERSONALITY SEE HANDOUT

  14. …I write books. I am an author. All thanks to thee, O great educator, Stalin. I love a young woman with a renewed love and shall perpetuate myself in my children--all thanks to thee, great educator, Stalin. I shall be eternally happy and joyous, all thanks to thee, great educator, Stalin. Everything belongs to thee, chief of our great country. And when the woman I love presents me with a child the first word it shall utter will be : Stalin. O great Stalin, O leader of the peoples,Thou who broughtest man to birth.Thou who fructifies the earth,Thou who restorest to centuries,Thou who makest bloom the spring,Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords...Thou, splendour of my spring, O thou,Sun reflected by millions of hearts. A. O. Avdienko http://www.historyguide.org/europe/cult.html#second

  15. . . . . Vladimir Ilyich said: "Stalin is excessively rude, and this defect, which can be freely tolerated in our midst and in contacts among us Communists, becomes a defect which cannot be tolerated in one holding the position of the Secretary General. Because of this, I propose that the comrades consider the method by which Stalin would be removed from this position and by which another man would be selected for it, a man, who above all , would differ from Stalin in only one quality, namely, greater tolerance, greater loyalty, greater kindness, and more considerate attitude toward the comrades, a less capricious temper, etc.". As later events have proven, Lenin's anxiety was justified; in the first period after Lenin's death Stalin still paid attention to his (i.e., Lenin's) advice, but, later be began to disregard the serious admonitions of Vladimir Ilyich. When we analyze the practice of Stalin in regard to the direction of the party and of the country, when we pause to consider everything which Stalin perpetrated, we must be convinced that Lenin's fears were justified. The negative characteristics of Stalin, which, in Lenin's time, were only incipient, transformed themselves during the last years into a grave abuse of power by Stalin, which caused untold harm to our party. . . . Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. KHRUSHCHEV

  16. Altering history

  17. Two undated photographs of Voroshilov, Molotov and Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov, commissar of water transport, in the picture (top) and deleted (above). He was shot in 1940.Courtesy the David King Collection www.tate.org.uk/.../issue8/erasurerevelation.htm

  18. This photo, taken at the Second anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution in 1919, was dramatically altered to remove those spectators who had since become undesirables. Khalatov (bottom right), Kamenev (top left) and most obviously Trotsky all disappear to leave Lenin looking somewhat lonely. The Commissar Vanishes David King http://www.giles.34sp.com/books/commissar.htm

  19. One of the many stills taken from Ten Years of Uzbekistan. Between editions Abel Yenukidze had been expelled from the party. This meant two things, him out of the photo and a new (pencilled in) suit for the guy behind him. http://www.giles.34sp.com/books/commissar.htm

  20. SOCIALIST REALISM SOVIET ART http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism.htm

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