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The Soviet Union Under Stalin

The Soviet Union Under Stalin. Chapter 13 Section 4. A Totalitarian State. Stalin’s Five Year Plans Aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output Command economy Mixed Results in Industry Chart on pg. 441 Forced Collectivization in Agriculture

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The Soviet Union Under Stalin

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  1. The Soviet Union Under Stalin Chapter 13 Section 4

  2. A Totalitarian State • Stalin’s Five Year Plans • Aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output • Command economy • Mixed Results in Industry • Chart on pg. 441 • Forced Collectivization in Agriculture • To bring agriculture under his control, Stalin used forced collectivization • Collectives: the government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed • Kulaks

  3. Stalin’s Terror Tactics • Terror as a Weapon • Gulag • The Great Purge • Along with “show trials” tried to eliminate everyone Stalin saw as a threat • Results of the Purge • Increased Stalin’s power, but weakened the economy, military, and society

  4. Communist Attempts to Control Thought • Propaganda • Censorship and the Arts • Socialist realism • Russification • Stalin tried to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting russification • War on Religion • Under Stalin, the official state religious policy was athiesm

  5. Soviet Society Under Stalin • The New Elite Takes Control • Mostly Communists • Benefits and Drawbacks • Women in the Soviet Union • Under Communism, women won equality under the law

  6. Soviet Foreign Policy • Two contradictory goals: • As Communists- bring about worldwide revolution like Marx predicted • As Soviets-guarantee nation’s security by winning support of other countries • Led to a generally unsuccessful foreign policy • The goal of the Comintern was to encourage worldwide revolution

  7. Looking Ahead “By the time Stalin dies in 1953, the Soviet Union had become a military superpower and a world leader in heavy industry. Yet Stalin’s efforts exacted a brutal toll. The Soviet people were dominated by a totalitarian system based on terror. The reality of communism fell far short of Lenin’s promises. Most people in the Soviet Union lived meager lives compared with people in the West.”

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