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totalitarianism

totalitarianism. Ch 30.2. EQ. What is totalitarianism? What were some of the characteristics of Stalin’s totalitarian regime?. AKS. 46b - determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five Year Plan

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  1. totalitarianism Ch 30.2

  2. EQ • What is totalitarianism? • What were some of the characteristics of Stalin’s totalitarian regime?

  3. AKS • 46b - determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five Year Plan • 46f - describe the nature of totalitarianism and the police state that existed in Russia, Germany, and Italy and how they differ from authoritarian governments

  4. Review • What was the name of the dynasty of the last Czar? • Define proletariat. What did Karl Marx predict they would do? • Who were the Bolsheviks? Who was their leader? • What was Nicholas II made to do as a result of the March Revolution? • What group ends up taking over Russia? What is the new name?

  5. Totalitarianism • A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life • Police terror • Indoctrination • Propaganda and censorship • Religious or ethnic persecution

  6. Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) • Lenin’s successor • Leader of Communist Party – one party rule • Great Purge • Terror campaign aimed at anyone opposed to the communist party – 8 – 13 million dead

  7. Soviet Economy • Command Economy • Government makes all decisions • Five-Year Plans • Set impossible economic goals • Rapid industrialization • Increase of Steal, coal, oil, electricity but limited production of consumer goods (housing clothes, food) • Collective Farms • Combined privately owned individual farms into large government owned farms

  8. Review • What is totalitarianism? • What methods of control used by totalitarian regimes? • How many political parties were in Soviet Russia? • What is a command economy? • What was Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?

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