This document provides information about totalitarian leaders including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. It discusses Lenin establishing the USSR and the New Economic Policy. It describes Stalin's purges that killed thousands and his five year plans to strengthen the economy. It outlines Mao Zedong killing opponents to gain power in China and the deaths resulting from his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution campaigns. It also mentions Hitler writing Mein Kampf in prison and using the Reichstag fire to consolidate power and establish the SS as his personal guard.

1. Unit 7.1
Totalitarian Vocabulary
By Katie Grant

2. Vladimir Lenin
First Communist Leader of the USSR.
New Economic Policy that was communist and capitalist.
The proletariat was
the lower social
class. The workers
state.

3. JOSEPH STALIN
Stalin’s purges were the
thousands of “enemies that he had
murdered.
His five year plans were goals
that were supposed to
strengthen the economy.
Collectivization is a process where all farms are collected by the
government, people are sent to work on the government owned land
and they don’t get to keep anything the produce.

4. MAO ZEDONG
A leader in Chaochan, China Zedong killed people that
He killed Jie-shi to gain power. he felt threatened by just
like Stalin. He also believed
the economy and the state
The Cultural
were more important than
Revolution was a
social political the people.
movement that
took place in the His popularity came from
People’s Republic and economic and social
of China from campaign of the
1966 through communist party of China.
1976. This resulted in the death
of about 45 million people.

5. HITLER
Mein Kampf was the book Hitler wrote in prison.
The Reichstag fire that
happened in the Reichstag
Building to prove Hitlers
power, his hatred for Jews and
his Nazi followers.
The SS was supposed to be a guard for senior Nazis
but ended up being Hitlers personal guard.