1. LENIN TAKES COMMAND AND STALIN’S REIGN OF TERROR
THE SOVIET UNION
LENIN TAKES COMMAND
AND
STALIN’S REIGN OF TERROR

2. Vladimir Ulyanov From upper class family
Profoundly affected by execution of his brother
Exiled by Tsar 1897

3. LENIN Returns April 1917 Overthrows Provisional gov’t
Bolsheviks promise
“Peace, Land and Bread”
1918 Treaty of Brest -Litovsk

4. Alexander Kerensky Tsar abdicates Duma forms provisional government
Hope for moderate, democratic gov’t
Overthrown by Bolsheviks

5. Trotsky Lev Bronstein Lenin’s #2 Marxist theory Military strategy
Led the Red Army to victory in CW
Pushed out and exiled by Stalin

6. Lenin’s Tomb

7. Lenin Gets A Pass Lenin still held in high regard even though
He established the CHEKA Secret Police later known as (KGB)
Started the GULAG Prison Camp system
Used Murder, Torture, Prison and Exile to further political goals.
Dies in Stalin carries on the program

8. Stalin’s Rise to Power Josef Dzhugashvilli 1878 Born in Georgia
Peasant stock
Quits seminary to join the revolution
“Stalin” Man of Steel
Prison and exile

9. Young Revolutionary 1899 -1917 Not an intellectual
Tough guy who could get things done
Bank robberies
Kidnappings
Demonstrations
Escapes

10. Stalin Out Maneuvers Trotsky
Stalin Assigned Post in Secretariat
Gathers information on party members
Appoints people to party jobs, expects loyalty (carrot)
Punishes those who disagree with him by removing them from their posts (stick)
Forms alliances
Trotsky passed over when Lenin dies

11. Rapid Industrialization
5 Year Plans set ambitious goals
Goals were met despite dangerous conditions, loss of life
Use of slave labor
Potemkin Villages, hide shortfalls if goals not met

12. Collectivization of Agriculture
Massive state farms
Kulaks shipped off to Siberia
They destroy livestock, machinery, etc.
Production quotas can’t be met
Famine

13. Famine in Ukraine Bread Basket of Europe
Collectivization does not work
Government takes all of the grain, even that for personal use
5 million deaths
Remember this picture when you see “Che”

14. Purge Trials of the 1930’s Stalin eliminates the “competition”
Uses torture to force confessions from old Bolshevik comrades
Some had been heroes of the Revolution
Death or labor camps

16. Inner Circle Most Powerful Leaders in USSR STALIN Voroshilov Beria
Molotov
Malenkov
Kaganovich
Kalinin

17. Ivan’s Apartment Ivan and Anastasia Sanshin Aaron and Sonya Gubelman
Katya
Morda (the Policeman) and Mrs. Morda
The Professor
Feodosia - The Old Lady

18. The Non-Aggression Pact 1939
Molotov-Ribbentrop negotiate an alliance between Stalin and Hitler
USSR to provide food and raw materials to Germany
Germany to provide manufactured goodd to USSR
Hitler invades in 1941

19. Battle of Stalingrad 1942 The Enemy is at the Gate
Government is evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev
Stalin stays behind
Russians rally to defend the Motherland

20. The Gulag

21. Cult of Personality

22. The Big Three FDR, Churchill and Stalin ally to defeat Hitler
At Yalta, Stalin is rewarded for Russia’s sacrifice
Security zone of Eastern European “satellite states”

25. Comrade Voroshilov

26. Comrade Beria