Totaltarianism In Russia Flashcards
What is Trotsky vs Stalin?
Trotsky and Stalin battled for top position and Stalin won
What was Stalin known as?
Fearless leader
What did Stalin turn Russia into?
A totalitarian state
What is totalitarianism?
Gov takes complete control over every aspect of public and private life
What does totalitarianism challenge?
Values of democratic states of enlightenment
What did secret police do?
Arrested you if u were a suspicious threat to overthrow gov or if you didn’t meet your quota
What is the great purge?
Any Bolsheviks suspicious people and all of stalins leaders were killed
How many people died during great purge?
8-13 million
How did Stalin use propaganda?
- spread ideas
- censorship of media
- Peasants taught communism
- youth brain washed
Why did religion in Russia diminish?
Stalin encouraged atheism and had secret police burn churches and kill priests
What was one of Stalins major accomplishments?
Industrialization
What was stalins five year plan?
Strengthen industrialization and military defenses Also reduced production of consumer goods
What started agriculture revolution?
Stalin seized over 25 million private farms and had peasants work on them as one large farm or collective farms
What is the agriculture revolution?
Kulaks revolted and burned crops and livestock making Stalin make them work at threat of death
(5-10 million killed)
What happened ten years into stalins rule?
- wheat production doubled
- electricity production up 800%
- steel production increased 4-18 million metric tons
