The Rise of Stalin to Totalitarian Rule (HW#5)
See p. 441
Joseph Stalin Totalitarian Leader of the USSR 1922-1953
The Most Murderous Dictator
in World History
Notebook Assignment #3
Joseph Stalin: Red Terror
Video Notes
Watch the first 30 minutes of video and take notes on
these three topics:
1) Stalin's Personal Background
2) How Stalin Established Power
3) How Stalin Maintained Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVBzNEgtBZQ
Consider what you saw in video and discuss with group how
Stalin implemented the “key traits” of totalitarianism
described in the graphic.
Propaganda & “Cult
of Personality”
Kulaks, Church & Minorities
Scapegoats
&
5 Year Plans
Forced Modernization
Collective Farms
Truth
vs.
Propaganda
Stalinist View of Grain Shortages that result from Collectivization of Farms
RESOLUTION OF THE UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC AND OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE ON VILLAGES THAT
MALICIOUSLY SABOTAGE THE COLLECTION OF GRAIN.
In view of the shameful collapse of grain collection in the more remote regions of Ukraine, the
Central Committee [orders] in reaction to the break up the sabotage of grain collection
organized by kulak and counterrevolutionary elements; to liquidate the resistance of some of
the rural communists, who in fact have become the leaders of the sabotage … to ensure, with
maximum speed, full and absolute compliance with the plan for grain collection….
The Council of the Central Committee call upon all collective and private farmers who are
honest and dedicated to Soviet rule to organize all their efforts for a merciless struggle against
kulaks and their accomplices in order to: defeat in their villages the kulak sabotage of grain
collection; fulfill honestly and conscientiously their grain collection obligations to the Soviet
authorities; and strengthen collective farms.
6 December 1932.
Replace Religion with “Cult of Personality”
Soviet Hymns and Poems Glorifying Stalin
Thank you, Stalin. Thank you because I am joyful. Thank you because I am well. Centuries will pass,
and the generations still to come will regard us as the happiest of mortals, as the most fortunate of
men, because we lived in the century of centuries, because we were privileged to see Stalin, our
inspired leader. Yes, and we regard ourselves as the happiest of mortals because we are the
contemporaries of a man who never had an equal in world history.
The men of all ages will call on thy name, which is strong, beautiful, wise and marvelous. Thy name is
engraven on every factory, every machine, every place on the earth, and in the hearts of all men.
Every time I have found myself in his presence I have been subjugated by his strength, his charm, his
grandeur. I have experienced a great desire to sing, to cry out, to shout with joy and happiness.
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 brought man to birth.
Thou who fructifies the earth,
Thou who makes bloom the spring,
Thou who makes vibrate the musical chords...
Thou, splendor of my spring, O thou,
Sun reflected by millions of hearts.
Systematic Terror Used to Maintain Power
Ex: Secret Police, Exile & Purges
Gulags
NKVD
On back of NB#3 Video notes, write a paragraph that answers this prompt:
Using specific examples, explain how Stalin’s rule in the
USSR applied any FOUR of the Traits of totalitarianism
described in the graphic below.
NB#4: Stalin
Documents
Analysis
Assignment
Totalitarian Traits Adopted in Italy &
Germany by the early 1930’s