Joseph Stalin Stalin Gains Control Building a Totalitarian State Stalin’s Economy The Great Purge

A. Stalin Gains Control Lenin dies in 1924 Both Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin want to gain control of the nation

Joseph Stalin becomes the next premier Really a dictator Trotsky is exiled and flees to Mexico

1st goal of Stalin’s was to make the USSR into a modern industrial power Did NOT worry about the military

B. Building a Totalitarian State Totalitarianism – a government that controls every public and private aspect of life Stalin turns the U.S.S.R. into a totalitarian state

Stalin uses: Indoctrination (brainwashing) Propaganda Censorship (blocking material you don’t want people to see) Religious persecutions Controlled education

C. Stalin’s Economy Five Year Plan – increase production of steel, coal, oil, & electricity. Gulags: Prison Camps for resisters

Created Collective Farms – large, government owned farms Kulaks (wealthy peasants) – resisted Were executed

D. The Great Purge 1934-1939 Campaign to eliminate all opposition to Stalin’s power Executed anyone who he thought was a threat Including other communists

8 – 13 million people were killed Every citizen was afraid