The document discusses various totalitarian leaders and aspects of totalitarian regimes. It describes Vladimir Lenin and how he led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and established communist rule. It outlines Stalin's Great Purge, Five Year Plans, and collectivization policies in the Soviet Union. It also mentions Trotsky being exiled from Russia by Stalin. The document also summarizes Mao Zedong's role in founding communist China and policies like the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. Additionally, it provides details about Hitler, Mussolini and aspects of their fascist regimes in Germany and Italy.

1. Totalitarianism
By: Grant Hall
:of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state

2. Vladimir Lenin
✤ Was the leader who lead the
Bolshevik Revolution, and
established a Communist
government in Russia
✤ The proletariat were the lower
working class
✤ Lenin’s New Economic Plan
was a plan to bring capital into
the government

3. Stalin
✤ The Great Purge was Stalin’s actions
in removing all opponents and
enemies out of Soviet life
✤ His Five Year Plans were a set of
Economic Goals to be met, that
would change Russia from an
Agriculture State to and Industrial
State
✤ Collectivization was a system in
which private farms were
eliminated and the government
control all of the land.

4. Leon Trotsky
✤ Trotsky was a War Commissar
while Lenin was still alive
✤ After Lenin died Trotsky was
exiled from Russia under
Stalin’s command and was
later killed in Mexico

5. Mao Zedong
✤ He was a Leader in China
✤ He was the Founding Leader of
the Communist Party in China
and lead the Revolution that
would change the course of
China’s history forever.
✤ He believed that the peasants
were the driving force of the
revolution.
✤ He defeated Sun Yat-sen, to take
power.

6. Mao Zedong
✤ His Cultural Revolution was a
way to capture the glory days of
the revolution to ignite a fire in
the masses souls
✤ The Great Leap Forward was
Mao's bad plan that decided the
nation could be psyched up
about industrialism
✤ This failed and lead to a famine
and economic depression

7. Hitler
✤ Mein Kampf was a book by
Hitler that expressed his
political ideologies
✤ The fire at the Reichstag was an
arson attack, on German
Parliament building. This is
known as establishment of
Nazi Germany
✤ The SS was a paramilitary
stormtrooper unit

8. Mussolini
✤ He set up Fascist Government
✤ He had a good relationship
with the Catholic Church
because it was such a powerful
institution in Italy
✤ The Blackshirts were a Fascist
Stormtrooper unit that
enforced Mussolini’s political
movements
✤ His nickname of Il Duce