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Agenda – 2-5-13

Agenda – 2-5-13. BW – Lists on Notes sheet CW – Totalitarian notes CW2 – Analyzing propaganda HW – Lenin Document Markup. QOTD – “Never tell me the odds” -Han Solo. Totalitarianism. Stalin’s USSR. Totalitarianism. A government that controls every aspect of life.

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Agenda – 2-5-13

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  1. Agenda – 2-5-13 • BW – Lists on Notes sheet • CW – Totalitarian notes • CW2 – Analyzing propaganda • HW – Lenin Document Markup. • QOTD – “Never tell me the odds” -Han Solo

  2. Totalitarianism Stalin’s USSR

  3. Totalitarianism • A government that controls every aspect of life.

  4. Traits of Totalitarianism • Ideology- set goals for the state, glorifies & justifies state actions • State Control of Individuals- demand loyalty, denies rights, state above individual • Enforcement-police terror, indoctrination, censorship, & persecution • Technology-mass propaganda, weapons

  5. More Traits • State Control of Society- Controls all public life (art, education, housing, labor, religion, etc.) • One Party Rule- no other options • Dynamic Leader-unites the people, symbolizes the gov’t, & cult of personality

  6. Stalin’s USSR • Stalin eliminated all enemies, real & imagined • 1937-1938 The Great Purge eliminated any threats to his power, thousands were put into labor camps or executed • Current estimates are 20 million were executed during his rule.

  7. Propaganda • Censorship-the state controlled ALL media • Images & stories were all meant to glorify the state & leaders • Government controlled ALL education from nursery school through university • Religious persecution- Stalin opposed all religion, wanted people to worship the state, no divided loyalty

  8. Economy • Command Economy-government controlled everything, means of production, prices, etc. • Five Year Plans- developed to modernize the USSR, set impossible goals, failed the people miserably, but did industrialize USSR • Collective farms-peasants forced to move

  9. Society • More options- people had some social mobility, anyone could become anything if they worked & went to school • Women could do any job & the government provided child care but the women still had to care for the home & raise the children, it was a patriotic duty

  10. Stalin’s Success • Stalin achieved complete control of the USSR • USSR was an industrial & political power in the world • He required complete conformity & obedience & stifled all creativity because it was a threat

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