1. By. Pola Shim & Minhyo Moon
Totalitarianism
By. Pola Shim & Minhyo Moon

2. Totalitarianism
A government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life
Challenges the highest values prized by Western democracies – reason, freedom, human dignity, and the worth of the individual.

3. Key Traits of Totalitarianism
Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
Dynamic Leader
Ideology
State control over all sectors of Society
State control over individual
Dependence on Modern Technology
Organized Violence

4. Totalitarian Leaders
They appear to provide a sense of security and to give a direction for the future.
Hitler (Germany) & Mussolini (Italy)
 1920s~1930s: shaping their visions of a totalitarian state
Mao Zedong (China)
 After 1949: used similar tactics to Stalin’s to establish totalitarian control
Kim Il Sung (North Korea)
 1948~1994: ruled over a totalitarian Communist state

5. Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
1922~1927: began to climb up the top of the government
1922: General secretary of the Communist Party
1924: placed many of his supporters in key positions
1928: total command of the Communist Party
1929: forced Trotsky into exile

6. Stalin seizes control of the economy
Command economy: a system in which the government makes all economic decisions.
Under this system, political leaders identify the country’s economic needs and determine how to fulfill them.

7. Industrial Revolution in Soviet
1928: Stalin outlined the first several Five Year Plans
Government: controlled every aspect of the worker’s life
Secret police: standing by to imprison/kill people who didn’t contribute
1933: second plan was launched
1928~1937: industrial production increased more than 25%

8. Agricultural Revolution in Soviet
1928: government began to seize over 25million collective farms
 Collective farms: privately owned farms
5mill.~10mill. peasants died  force of Stalin
Kulaks: executed or were sent by the government
 Kulaks: a class of wealthy peasants
1938: The country produced almost twice the wheat
: more than 90% of all peasants lived on collective farms

9. Life Under Stalin Soviet Women: Education: - won equal rights
- helped the state-controlled economy prosper
- given new educational opportunities
- responsible for housework and child care
Education:
- was controlled by the government
- Children learned the virtues of Communist Party
- was not merely indoctrination

10. Weapons of Totalitarianism
Police Terror: Dictators started to use Terror as their weapon for totalitarianism
 Great Purge: a campaign of terror launched by Stalin which was directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power
●Indoctrination: instruction in the government’s belief to mold people’s minds. ●Propaganda: biases or incomplete information used to sway people to accept certain beliefs or actions
Newspaper and Radio: Radio broadcasting everyday about the glorified the achievements of the dictator and his communism
Social Realism: an artistic style that praise Soviet life and Communist values

11. Religious Persecution
Communists aimed in replacing religious teachings
The police destroyed great churches and many religious leaders were killed or sent away
 Because Communists thought the religious ideas were not a good influence with their idea of Communism.

12. Comparing Revolutions
The Russian Rev. was similar to the French Rev. (more than the American Rev.)
Russian Rev. & French Rev.
American Rev.
Attempted to destroy existing social and political structures
Used violence and terror to control people
Expanded English political ideas to a constitutional government
 That built on many existing structures
But Russian Revolution established a totalitarian state.

13. WHY?
The idea of Totalitarianism influenced leaders up to recent times.
Recent dictators have used Stalin’s tactics and Totalitarianism ideas for seizing total control over individuals and the state.

14. Vocabulary
Totalitarianism: a government that take total power and control over aspects of public and private life
Command economy: a system in which the government make all economic decisions
The Five Years Plan: set numerous goals to increase the out put of steel, coal, oil, and electricity
Collective farms: privately owned farms
Kulaks: executed or sent by the government
Socialist Realism: an artistic style that praised soviet life and communist values

15. The End
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