Stalins Dictatorship : USSR 1924-1941
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- Stalins Dictatorship : USSR 1924-1941
- The emergence of Stalin
- The death and funeral of Lenin
- Lenin suffered a series of strokes and died in January 1924
- Russia was changed to the USSR
- Stalin planned his funeral and told Trotsky the wrong date
- The background of Stalin and Trotsky
- Stalin
- Humble origins
- Ruthless
- Became general secretary of the party
- hated intelectuals
- Trotsky
- clever
- in 1917 he was chairman of the petrograd soviet
- commissar for war
- created the red army
- jewish
- Stalin
- Lenins testament
- in 1922 Lenin wrote his thoughts on who his assessor should be
- In 1923 he added a postscript critical of Stalin
- Stalin influenced the party not to publish it
- Claims to power
- Stalin
- loyal Bolshevik
- Doctored photos so it looked like he was with Lenin
- organised Lenins funeral
- Wanted a communist USSR
- Believed in socialism in one country
- Trotsky
- Carried out the October/ November revolution
- Created the Red army and lead them to win the civil war
- wanted communism to spread quickly
- believed in world revolution
- Stalin
- Communist rule in the late 1920's
- Shared between 9 members of the Politburo
- Many areas wanted independence
- Lenin propaganda was everywhere
- Censorship was imposed
- The struggle between Trotsky and Stalin
- Stalin published a book called the foundations of Leninism
- Stalin appointed his supporters as junior officials
- Stalin became editor of Pravda
- Trotsky suffered for being a jew
- Trotsky wanted to revolutionise agriculture
- Stalin wanted to continue with the NEP
- in 1926 Trotsky Zinoviev and Kamanev were dismissed from the politburo
- In 1929 Trotsky was expelled from the USSR
- The death and funeral of Lenin
- How did Stalin reinforce his Dictatorship
- The Control of the communist party
- He controlled through the Politburo
- His secret police were the NKVD and they stopped all criticism of Stalin
- The constitution of 1936
- appeared to give rights and freedom to the citizens of the USSR
- The NKVD ignored it
- The supreme soviet was elected but all candidates were communist and the votes were rigged
- The purges and the great terror
- Reasons for the purges
- Stalin was intimidated
- He was paranoid
- The extent of the purges
- People who were purged were remmed from all photos
- Anyone feared by Stalin could be arrested over false charges
- Show Trials
- Began in 1936
- People would be tortured and threatened until they admitted to what Stalin wanted them to admit to
- After pleading guilty they would be executed
- Trials were published
- Who was arrested
- Leadership rivals
- Old Mensheviks
- Army commanders
- Kulaks
- Saboteurs
- Academics
- The great terror
- The NKVD were feared everywhere
- Gulags
- Conditions were shocking
- Most people died from cold malnutrition or disease
- Working conditions were brutal
- Consequences of the purges
- The number of communist party members fell
- People lived in constant fear
- The NKVD ruled the population with terror
- Stalin had weakened the USSR intellectually so industry slowed down
- The army was weak
- Reasons for the purges
- The Cult of personality
- Propaganda
- censorship was tightened
- Musicians were controlled
- Art was controlled
- Posters had modern art
- Posters had huge heroic images
- Education
- Curriculum was dictated by the government
- History was rewritten to suit Stalin
- Trotsky was removed from History
- NKVD had spies everywhere
- Political youth groups were set up
- Stalin encouraged the destruction of religion
- Propaganda
- The Control of the communist party
- To what extent did Stalin make the USSR a great economic power
- The economic state in the USSR late 1920's
- low industrial output
- Stalin wanted to modernise agriculture
- NEP promised growth but at a slow rate
- Farming
- 5 year plans could only work if produce was increased
- they needed to feed the growing population and export surplus
- Collectivisation
- How it worked
- Peasants had to give up land and work on large farms with other families
- Farms were supplied by the state wit things they needed
- Most produce went to the state
- Kulaks opposed it as they had become rich under the NEP
- most Kulaks refused to give up their land
- The effects of it
- A huge propaganda campaign was launched
- Many peasants killed their animals in protest
- Country side was ruined due to fights between the NKVD and peasants
- Food production fell
- How it worked
- Industrialisation
- five year plans
- Why Stalin wanted to industrialise the USSR
- security
- Socialism in one country
- Proving communism works
- there were 2 five year plans between 1928 and 1933 and 1933 and 1937
- very high targets were set and few were reached but industry still made advances
- Why Stalin wanted to industrialise the USSR
- consequences
- The USSR was a huge industrial power
- Big projects were completed quickly
- large investments in education
- huge pressure was put on workers to meet targets
- Safety standards were low
- five year plans
- The economic state in the USSR late 1920's
- The emergence of Stalin
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