1. Stalin’s Rise to Power
Lecture Power Point Presentation

2. Teacher Instructions
Copy 1-per-student,back-to-back, “Cornell Notes – Stalin’s Rise to Power”
Copy 1-per-student, back-to-back, “Graphic Organizer/Sensory Figure” (found at the end of the power point)
As you watch the film, “Stalin” stop periodically to have the students complete the graphic organizer.
For a wrap-up assessment, students complete the “Sensory Figure”

3. CA Standard
Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).

4. Objective
Students will be able to trace Stalin’s rise to power and analyze his political policies in the Soviet Union under a Totalitarian state by completing a graphic organizer.

5. What was the Soviet Union like under the leadership of Stalin?
Essential Question
What was the Soviet Union like under the leadership of Stalin?

6. Film Clip: Stalin Propaganda
Close power point to play video

7. Pair-Share
After viewing “Stalin Propaganda” discuss the following questions with your partner.
1. What is propaganda.
2. How is Stalin portrayed in the propaganda posters? Why do you think this is?
3. Why do countries use propaganda?

8. Rise of Stalin 1. From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.

9. Lenin is followed by Joseph Stalin.
Stalin creates a totalitarian society in Russia.

10. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
1. From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.
After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
tried to make USSR a modern industrial state

11. Russia had missed the Capitalist phase
farm land was taken away by the government and peasants forced to work on huge collectivized farms
Russia had missed the Capitalist phase
Stalin tried to skip Capitalist phase by allowing the state to develop the Russian economy
eventually the state would “hand over” control of the economy to the “dictatorship of the proletariat”…
Stalin introduced 5-year-plans for industrial and agricultural improvements
huge factories were built with millions of people being encouraged to work to make the state stronger

12. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
1. From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.
After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
tried to make USSR a modern industrial state
all economic and agricultural activity under government control
5-year-plans to increase production

13. Stalin’s Great Purge
In 1934 Stalin targeted his enemies for elimination.
By 1939 Stalin had complete control of the country.
Historians estimate that Stalin was responsible for between 8-13 million Russians.

14. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
1. From Lenin to Stalin
A Under Lenin, the Communist Party used the army and secret police to enforce its will. In economics, Lenin mixed capitalist and socialist ideas.
After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
tried to make USSR a modern industrial state
all economic and agricultural activity under government control
5-year-plans to increase production
C. In 1934 Stalin started terror - Great Purge (4 million people were purged and almost 800,000 were executed).

15. How did Stalin maintain control over the USSR?
Secret police
arrested opposition
spied on people
even family members spied
Propaganda
government controlled all media
encouraged obedience to the state
Censorship
against the law to criticize
government controlled everything people heard, saw, or read
Terror
Great Purge
constant fear of midnight “knock on the door”
sent to labor camps - gulags

16. 2. Life in a Totalitarian State
A. Stalin used secret police, propaganda, censorship, and terror to establish a totalitarian state.
B. Leaders were Communist Party members, industrial managers, military, scientists, and some artists and writers.

17. “Literature, the cinema, the arts are levers in the hands of the proletariat which must be used to show the masses positive models of initiative and heroic labor.”
Socialist Realism

18. 2. Life in a Totalitarian State
A. Stalin used secret police, propaganda, censorship, and terror to establish a totalitarian state.
B. Leaders were Communist Party members, industrial managers, military, scientists, and some artists and writers.
C. Artists and writers forced to use “socialist realism” (tried show Soviet life in a positive way).

19. Film Activity
As you watch the film about Stalin, complete the corresponding graphic organizer:
Key Aspects of Stalin’s Totalitarian State in Russia

20. Film Clip: Stalin

21. Wrap-Up Sensory Figure
Using the information you learned about Stalin, complete the sensory figure.