Lecuture 4- Totalitarianism part 2

Question 1

Road to power

Answer 1

• ussr under lenin vs hitler in weimar
  lenin power struggle he did not name a successor stalin cam out on top
• after 1924: fighting within the party
• 1934 as breakpoint
  night of long knives SA killed
  law on policy to protect state
  stalin kills and makes it legal by law to get in power

Question 2

new society

Answer 2

utopian core
the new man
classless societies
engineers of body and soul

DIfferent object
race vs class
bauernstaat vs industrial society- ussr used this as an attempt to industrialized romantasised the coal and factory worker that creates the utopia work towards future
retrospective cs prospective

Question 3

state and party

Answer 3

• party as power base
• pary as mass movement
  -state
  built by ussr, nomenklatura
  reconstructed by NSDAP shadowed by state
• governance
  Hitler from a distance
  stalins micromanagment
  -secret police

Question 4

economy

Answer 4

convergence to planned economy state led
germany:
Expieriences after WWI
contradiction of corporatism
-centralisation under albert speer feb 1942

USR
-chaotic infudyrialisation
-centralisation under Niko juli 1941
- 6 months made all the difference?

Question 5

purges and repression

Answer 5

purges
nazis- enemies of party and nation
ussr political enemicies

victims
germany 5-9 million
ussr- 1,8- 12 million
man made femine in ukrane
survival rate before the war
gulsg: > 80%
political prisoners NSDAP <60%
extermination camps in reich <2%
USSR POW <45%
dukulKIZARION AND HOLODOMER %?

Question 6

mobalisation of the population

Answer 6

• personality cults
  -community
  cultural
  -resistance
  -welfare
  -gleichschaltung and competition
• abivilant to bourg culture

Question 7

totalitariansims?

Answer 7

-total life
- pop support
-fragmented state
- divide and rule
-centralisation

Question 8

interaction

Answer 8

nazi colonialism give up territy in africa and ee post war
living spapce in eastern europe it tries to germanise
soviet imperialism dekulakizarion and holodomor
-bloodlands

Question 9

soviet imperialism

Answer 9

• socialism in onr vounytu
  -world revolution
  -spheres of influence
  -colonial rule in east and south
  -dekulakization
  -holodomer

Question 10

bloodlands

Answer 10

the small states imbetween
molotov- rivventrop pact
-operation Barbarossa
operation reinhardts
jews, communist, partisans
comp of victims