Stalinism

Question 1

What is stalinism?

Answer 1

Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented by Joseph Stalin. Stalinist policies in the Soviet Union included: state terror, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, a centralized state, collectivization of agriculture, cult of personality, and subordination of interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—deemed by Stalinism to be the most forefront vanguard party of communist revolution at the time

Question 2

Essay plan for stalinism?

Answer 2

PURGES/GREAT TERROR

INDUSTRIALISATION

CULT OF PERSONALITY/PROPAGANDA, LABOUR CAMPS

Question 3

How did Stalin maintain power politically ?

Answer 3

-Manipulated people into doing what he wanted
-Alloweing he could not be challenged through the Constitution of 1936
~Surface very similar to the USA democratic system
~However candinated could only come from communist party
-Stalins Purges; determained to crush anyone who opposed him or who might oppose him
~1934 begun whe Kirov, the leadger of the leningrad communist party murdered an excuse to purge competitors
~Around 500000 members were arrested on charged of anti communist actitivies
-Great terror is the peak were the purges spilled over to normal russian society
~1937 18 million transfered to labour camps
~Key problem red army lacls good quality
`~~depended on thinking how stalin did

Question 4

How did Stalin change Russia Economically ?

Answer 4

-Ended NEP
-Aimed to achieve modernization through a series of five year plans
~Set ambitious targets for production in vital heavy industries
~Most targets were not met, but the achievements were stargering
~Each individual had a target, if not met punished and if met rewarded (Earning bonuses

-Industrialisation
~needed more people, encouraged woman
~Improved working conidtiond
~Unemployment non-existant

-Modernising argiculture: Collectivation
~ Farming needed to be organised for optimisaton
~ Difficult to win over peasants

Question 5

How did stalin maintain power socially ?

Answer 5

CULT OF THE PERSONALITY

• Average citizen admired Stalin
• Saw him as a winner and soviet people saw him as a government that was popular
• Soviet people believe in Stalin and this belief was built up quite deliberately by communist leaders and by Stalin himself.
• The history of the Soviet Union was rewritten so that Lenin and Stalin were the only real heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution.
• Soviet education system was geared to Stalinist propaganda and not to independent thinking

PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP

• religious worship was banned
• In 1917 there were 26000 mosque by 2939 only 1300
• Stalin wanted to be apart of peoples daily lives, Soviet people were deluged with potraits, photographs and statues of stalin
• Regular processions were organised through the streets of Russian towns and cities praising Stalin and all that he had acheived
• Poets and playwrites praised Stalin directly or indirectly
• Socialist realism