Stalin established a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union characterized by three key elements: 1) An all-powerful centralized government that exerted control over every aspect of citizens' lives through policies like Five Year Plans for industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, censorship of art and religion, and expanded state-controlled education. 2) Repressive police and propaganda methods like the secret police, Gulag system of labor camps, censorship, and state-run media like Pravda that spread propaganda and controlled public opinion. 3) Widespread fear among citizens that kept them from questioning the regime, enforced through violent purges that saw millions of suspected dissidents imprisoned or killed without trial.

1. Name:
Patterns of Change: Totalitarianism Assign #
Chapter 13 Section 4 p.440 - 447
Name:
A) Recognizing Facts and Details: As you read this section, fill in the web diagram with key characteristics of Stalinist Russia
• Industrial Policies (p. 440-441) 2) Agricultural Policies (p. 441- 442) 3) Art / Religion (p. 444-445)
You Better Explain = FYP, Command Economy Better explain = Collectives, Kulaks, Ukrainian Famine Better Explain = Socialist Realism, Russification, Atheism
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
4) Education (p.446) 5) Control Methods (p.442-443) 6. Propaganda Methods (p.443- 444)
Better Explain = Benefits & Drawbacks, Kids, Women Better Explain = Gulag, Great Purge, Propaganda Better Explain = Pravda, Thought Control, Censorship
B) Define and Identify each of the following terms:
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Totalitarianism Command Economy
(p. 440) (p.441)
Kulak (p.441) Collective Farms (p.441)
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2. Name:
Totalitarianism & You Assign #
Chapter 1 Section 15 & 16 p. 1 of Waking up to Your Existence
Name:
A) Recognizing Facts and Details: Think and then fill in the diagram to show the various forces working to get total control over your mind and body.
• _______________________ 2) ________________________ 3) __________________________
Totalitarianism & You
  or
5) ___________________________ 6. _________________________
4) ___________________________
B) Identify & Define relevant words to better describe your life:
Assign #
1) 2)
3) 4)

3. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. –
• F.Y.P. –
c) Command Economy =

4. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. – Five Year Plan to promote industrial growth
• F.Y.P. –
c) Command Economy =
d)
e)
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5. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. – Five Year Plan to promote industrial growth
• F.Y.P. – Industrialize to catch up with the West. (US & West Europe)
c) Command Economy =
d)
e)
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6. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. – Five Year Plan to promote industrial growth
• F.Y.P. – Industrialize to catch up with the West. (US & West Europe)
c) Command Economy = Govt determines what will be made & sold, job needed,
d)
e)
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7. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. – Five Year Plan to promote industrial growth
• F.Y.P. – Industrialize to catch up with the West. (US & West Europe)
c) Command Economy = Govt determines what will be made & sold, job needed,
d) Limited production of consumer goods (Clothes, shoes, etc)
e) All production for the State (Dams, weapons, factories, etc)
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8. Industrial Policies
• F.Y.P. – Five Year Plan to promote industrial growth
• F.Y.P. – Industrialize to catch up with the West. (US & West Europe)
c) Command Economy = Govt determines what will be made & sold, job needed,
d) Limited production of consumer goods (Clothes, shoes, etc) YOU are NOT #1
e) All production for the State (Dams, weapons, factories, etc) STATE is #1
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9. Agricultural Policies

10. Agricultural Policies
a) Established collective farm
b)
c)

11. Agricultural Policies
a) Established collective farm
b) Eliminated Kulaks = rich peasant farmers of central Russia
c)

12. Agricultural Policies
a) Established collective farm
b) Eliminated Kulaks = rich peasant farmers of central Russia
c) Ukrainian = Bread basket of Europe… produces lots of wheat
d) Stalin ordered Ukrainian harvests to be sent to Russia leaving millions of Ukrainians to starve.
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13. Art/Religion

14. Art/Religion
a)
b)
c)
d)

15. Art/Religion
a) Introduced Socialist realism as a vehicle to rally workers
b)
c)
d)

16. Art/Religion
a) Introduced Socialist realism as a vehicle to rally workers
b) Censored all forms of creativity
c)
d)

17. Art/Religion
a) Introduced Socialist realism as a vehicle to rally workers
b) Censored all forms of creativity
c) Replaced religious teachings with communist ideals
d)

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a) Introduced Socialist realism as a vehicle to rally workers
b) Censored all forms of creativity
c) Replaced religious teachings with communist ideals
d) Russification - attempt to make all Soviet Republics more Russian-like

19. Education
a)
b)
c)
d)

20. Education
a) Expanded and controlled education at all levels
b)
c)

21. Education
a) Expanded and controlled education at all levels
b) Opened educational opportunities to women
c)
d)
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22. Education
a) Expanded and controlled education at all levels
b) Opened educational opportunities to women
c) Education for all  (What type of education?)
d)
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23. Education
a) Expanded and controlled education at all levels
b) Opened educational opportunities to women
c) Education for all  (What type of education?)
d) Indoctrination = repeat and repeat and 2 +2 will be 5
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24. Control Methods
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
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25. Control Methods
a) Used secret police
b) Launched Great Purge –
c) Fear –
d) Gulag –
e) Propaganda –
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26. Control Methods
a) Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition
b) Launched Great Purge –
c) Fear –
d) Gulag –
e) Propaganda –
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27. Control Methods
a) Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition
b) Launched Great Purge – millions of suspected disloyal Russians
were captured, sent to the gulag or disappeared.
c) Fear –
d) Gulag –
e) Propaganda –
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28. Control Methods
a) Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition
b) Launched Great Purge – millions of suspected disloyal Russians
were captured, sent to the gulag or disappeared.
c) Fear – Keeps people in line and scared to ask questions
d) Gulag –
e) Propaganda –
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29. Control Methods
a) Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition
b) Launched Great Purge – millions of suspected disloyal Russians
were captured, sent to the gulag or disappeared.
c) Fear – Keeps people in line and scared to ask questions
d) Gulag – labor camp system was industrial slave labor
e) Propaganda –
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30. Control Methods
a) Used secret police and violent tactics to crush opposition
b) Launched Great Purge – millions of suspected disloyal
Russians were captured, sent to the gulag or disappeared.
c) Fear – Keeps people in line and scared to ask questions
d) Gulag – labor camp system was industrial slave labor
e) Propaganda – used to control what public thinks and knows
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31. Propaganda Methods
a)
b)
c)

32. Back Propaganda Methods
a) Used indoctrination and art to glorify the communist states
b)
c) Pravda =

33. Back Propaganda Methods
a) Used indoctrination and art to glorify the communist states
b) Created state supported youth groups to train future leaders
c) Pravda =

34. Back Propaganda Methods
a) Used indoctrination and art to glorify the communist states
b) Created state supported youth groups to train future leaders
c) Pravda = Truth; State Controlled Newspaper

35. Vocabulary
Totalitarianism
Command Economy
Collective Farm
Kulak

36. Totalitarianism
Government that exerts total control of every
aspect of a citizen’s private and public life
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37. Command Economy
A system in which government
makes all economic decisions
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38. Collective Farm
Large government owned farm on which
food was produced for the state
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39. Kulak
a) Wealthy Peasants
b) Kicked off their farms replaced with collective farms
c) Kulaks killed livestock /destroyed crop in protest before
moving to Siberia
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