1. Case Study: Stalin’s Total Control

2.  Totalitarian- An autocratic leader who has total control of his nation.  A totalitarian uses tricks [propaganda] to get people to believe in their ideas, but mostly use terror and violence to force obedience and crush anyone who opposes them.

3. A Monarch Gets Power From God Passes Divine Rule to Son Absolute Ruler Totalitarian Gets Power From Military Hand picks next dictator Absolute Ruler

4. Adolf Hitler Totalitarian Fascist Germany Stalin Totalitarian USSR Mussolini Totalitarian Fascist Italy Hirohito Emperor/Totalitarian Fascist Japan Mao Zedong Totalitarian Communist China

5. Stalin & Money Command economy- A system where the government makes all economic decisions. Stalin’s 5 year plan (1928-1933)- wanted to “catch up with the advanced countries” by advancing in iron, steel, coal and oil. limiting goods, led to a shortage of food, shelter, and clothing Agricultural Revolution- replaced farmers with machines causing many to lose jobs. used violence to force peasants to work, peasants resisted and 5- 10 million were killed.

6. Total Control/ Total Power Secret police- - monitored telephone lines and read mail. - took people from their homes at night and sent them to forced labor camps. -executed “traitors” Great Purge( campaign of terror)- - “eliminated” people who threatened Stalin’s power. -thousands of Bolsheviks were executed. Indoctrination and Propaganda- - newspapers and radios to censored to glorify communism - All religion outlawed, cold only worship Stalin

7. Daily Life Under Stalin Women: -won equal rights during Bolshevik Revolution -were able to work in factories - had to work AND remain responsible for housework and childcare. Education: -Every child received education -Part of education was Stalin’s Propaganda (indoctrination of Stalin as God-like) -Literacy in the USSR was nearly 100%