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Stalin background & name meaning

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kicked out while studied to be a priest (violent aggressive)
Bolshevik
Well-liked by Lenin has reputation
“Stalin”- man of steel

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Russia before Stalin’s rise

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The Great War
Lenin’s sickness
Single State/NEP

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What helped Stalin’s rise

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Lenin’s death
Open opportunity
Politcal craftiness

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2 factions in Party
(who in each)

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Leftists and Rightists

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Explain Leftists, beliefs and leaders

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Main people: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev
Comintern:
- believe that communism needs to be spread worldwide
- Path forward thru industry
- Abandoned NEP

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Explain Rightists, beliefs and leaders

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Main people: Tomsky, Bhukarin, Rhykov
- Revolution in one country
Path forward thru agriculture

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Stalin’s political craftiness

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See Trotsky weakness, use it against him
Side with K&Z, discredit them later on to side with right
Remove NEP, push collectivization

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Trotsky strengths & weaknesses

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Strengths:
- Good speaker
- Well-liked by Lenin
- Led Red Guard
- Settle Brest-Litovsk treaty
Weaknesses:
- Ill so absent from meetings
- Arrogant, not man of people
- Initially Mensheviks

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Gosplan

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Created by State Planning Commission to help Russian industrialize and compete with other nations
Building of power plans, steel mills, increase mines
Need to show communism success

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5 Years Plan

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Stalin’s plan to help Russian grow in industry and agricultural

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First Year Plan

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Industrialization, increase production of coal, steel, iron
Dekulakization: blame kulaks for decline, remove them, move those rich peasants to city to work for factories
Propaganda to make ppl think they’re modernizing nation

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Second Year Plan

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Collectivisation: State takes farm away from kulaks, state run the farm w new techs. (called farm Kolkhoz)
Remove NEP
Caused:
- farmers to burn their lands and slaughtered their animals
- resisted were sent to siberia or labour camps
- died from diseased and starvation
- also vandalized church bc of stalin’s hatred towards reiligion

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Alexei Stakhonov

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a person who was believed to be made up by the Party, said that he worked way more than the normal workers and is suppose to push the Russians to work harder

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What’s in Siberia, what’s labour camps

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A cold region where prisoners and rebels were sent to work on railroads
Labour camps force ppl to work in industry, but for free

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Success 5 Year Plan

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USSR became modernize state - survive Great Depression & WW2
Modern state 10 years
New damns, hydroelectric power, coal, steel

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Failures 5 Year Plan

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Poorly organize, unrealistic goals
Appalling human cost
Living standard horrible, no human rights
Deaths and accidents

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The Great Terror

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Set of events under Stalin’s reign to remove all oppositions, show his insecurities and fears

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NKVD

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Stalin’s secret police

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What’s Stalin’s fears

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  • Inner party betrayal
  • Revolts
  • Older leaders could be threats
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The assassination of Sergei Kirov

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Nobody knows what truly happened. Claim that Stalin fear him and he ordered the assassination
=> shows the Party power

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Show trials

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a set of public trials where politicians or members of Party goes up and confess their crimes and thoughts that is “against the Party”
The force behind it was by Stalin so he could execute all whom he is fear of. If they don’t confess their families will be threatened

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Women in USSR

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  • can work because Stalin’s all hands on deck to help push forward industrialization
  • still prefer domesticated, more kids more money, praised to have 6 kids or above
  • no contraceptives, abortion
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Cult of Personality

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  • build heroic image of Stalin, god-liked figure
  • Change history to focus on Stalin
  • Censoring bokks and movies
  • Religion outlawed, banned
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Socialist realism

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art where it makes Stalin looks like a trustworthy figure, father like, god like, make him the center of the meaning

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