Chap 2 - Totalitarian Regimes

Question 1

Totalitarianism

Answer 1

form of government where the state’s power is unlimited, controls all aspects of public and private life largely using TERROR – control extends to all political and economic matters + attitudes, morals and beliefs of the people –> main foundation is the achievement of an ideology

Question 2

Ideology

Answer 2

a set of beliefs/ principles, especially 1 on which a political system, party or organization is based on all resources of the regime directed toward attaining the ideology

Question 3

Kulaks

Answer 3

rich peasants

Question 4

NEP (New Economic Policy)

Answer 4

Economic policy established by Stalin to erase all traces of capitalism through rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture

Question 5

Plan du cours:

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B) ………………
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III. ………………………………
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B) ………………

Answer 5

Plan du cours:

I. Ideology and control
A) The role of ideology in the strengthening of the regimes (Nazism and the purification of the master race + From soviet socialism to Stalinism)
B) Indoctrination and control of society (the role of the leader + propaganda + creating a new man + new laws to control society)
C) Economic intervention (goal of Autarky + planned economy)

II. Violence and policies of Terror
A) The establishment of political control through violence (USSR and civil war + Germany’s synchronization)
B) Large-scale terror (political police, violent, deportation + Great Purges in USSR and gulag + persecution of Jews and concentration camps system)
C) Resistance (USSR with strikes and separate incidents + Germany and underground communists/ Christian resistance)

III. Totalitarianism and the European balance
A) Totalitarian regimes were oriented towards war (Germany & revenge on the Versailles diktat + alliances btwn dictatorship + change of tactics of Comintern
B) Rise of totalitarian regimes in international relations (Spanish Civil war, a rehearsal for WW2 + weakness of democracies in front of totalitarian regimes + pact towards war)