1. Stalin Transforms the USSR

2. Stalin & the Economy
Lenin’s NEP was a mixture of capitalism and state control.
Stalin pursued a Command Economy:
An economic system where government makes ALL decisions
1928 Stalin started his first 5-year Economic Plan
Outlined steps for rapid economic growth
Industrial growth
Agricultural growth

3. Industrial Revolution
Drastic steps to increase growth & improve National Defense.
Unrealistic Quotas
Quotas = specific target number each factory had to produce
Reduced production of consumer goods
Military goods became the focus…
Shortages emerged in housing, clothing, etc….

4. Agricultural Revolution
Seized 25 million privately owned farms
Established: Collective Farms
Peasants resisted fiercely:
Stalin responded with TERROR
5-10 million peasants died!

6. Primary Source
Stalin on Industrialization (1928)

7. Weapons of Totalitarianism
Police Terror
Propaganda
Religious Persecution

8. Police Terror Used tanks & armored cars to crush riots
Monitored telephone lines, read mail and planted informers….
Arrested & executed “traitors” of the state

9. The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first established in 1919,
but it was not until the early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers
The Gulag

10. Propaganda Promoted the ideas of communism
Soviet newspaper and radio GLORIFY the achievements of Communism
censorship was common

11. Religious Persecution
Attempted to replace Religion with Communist teachings
Russian Orthodox Church main target of persecution
Spread propaganda calling religion “superstitious”