1. Chapter 14 Section 2 Totalitarianism

2. I. A Government of Total Control A. Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism- describes a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
Leaders tend to be dynamic who are capable of building support for policies & justify actions

3. I. A Government of Total Control A. Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism challenges reason, freedom, human dignity, and worth of the individual

4. B. Police Terror
Use terror and violence to force obedience and crush opposition
Police serve to enforce govt. policies by spying and intimidation

5. C. Indoctrination
Indoctrination-means instruction in govt.’s beliefs-to mold people’s minds
Controlling education to glorify leader and policies to convince citizen’s unconditional loyalty. Best to begin with children

6. D. Propaganda and Censorship
Use biased information to sway people to accept certain beliefs
Control of mass media

7. D. Propaganda and Censorship
3. Film, art, music and publications exist only through the govt. 4. Challenging govt. info is considered treason

8. E. Religious or Ethnic Persecution
Govt. leaders will create “enemies of the state” to place blame for things that go wrong

9. II. Stalin Builds a Totalitarian State A. A Police State
Stalin create this to maintain his power
Used tanks and armored cars to stop riots
Tapped phone lines, children told on parents, and police arrested and executed millions of so called traitors

10. Stalin Builds a Totalitarian State A. A Police State
, Great Purge- campaign of terror directed at anyone who threatened Stalin’s power-even old Bolsheviks
By 1938 when the purge ended Stalin had gained total control and had been responsible for 8-13 million deaths

11. B. Soviet Propaganda and Censorship
Stalin would not tolerate individual creativity that did not conform to his views

12. D. Education, Indoctrination & Religious Persecution
Stalin controlled all education from nursery schools to the universities
Leaders preached sacrifice and hard work for the Communist state
Stalin wanted to replace religion with the ideals of communism

13. III. Stalin Seizes Control of the Economy A. An Industrial Revolution
Command economy is a system in which the govt. made all economic decisions
Stalin sets a 5-year plan that set goals for increasing the production of steel, coal, oil, and electricity but this created shortages in housing, food, & clothing
These methods did succeed in producing economic gain

14. B. An Agricultural Revolution
Collective Farms- In 1928 the govt. began to seize over 25 million privately owned farms and combined them into large govt. owned farms
Families worked on these farms producing food for the state
Kulaks (wealthy peasants) resisted but the Soviet govt. eliminated them

15. B. An Agricultural Revolution
5-10 million peasants died as a result of Stalin’s agricultural revolution
By 1938 more than 90% of all peasants lived on collective farms
These farms were effective; wheat production had doubled in 1938

16. Daily Life Under Stalin
Better education
Opportunity to master technical skills
Women and men equal in communism
Women in the Soviet Union could work, get an education
By 1950, 75% of Soviet doctors were women
Gov’t provided child care

17. Daily Life Under Stalin
Personal freedoms limited/oppression
Goods in short supply
Women expected to provide the state with future generations of loyal citizens
Total social control and terror