13.4 The Soviet Union Under Stalin!

I. A Totalitarian State!
!Stalins five-year plans to build heavy industry, improve transportation, and increase farm output. ! ! !All economic activity under government control, a command economy. Results in large quantities of low-quality goods.! !Any farmers who protested were sent to labor camps (gulags). Stalins brutality with the farmers led to the Terror Famine.!

II. Stalins Terror Tactics!

!Stalin used secret police against anyone disloyal. ! !Soviet Union lost many of its best and brightest because of The Great Purge.!

III. Communist Attempts to Control Thought!

!Stalin used propaganda to boost his popularity, make himself godlike. ! !Books, music, and other art forms that were critical of Stalin were censored.! !Replace religion with communist ideology.!

IV. Soviet Society Under Stalin!

!The new elite takes control. ! !All others endured shortages of food and consumer goods! !Benefits: free education and health care. Women were treated equally.!

V. Soviet Foreign Policy!

! Comintern encouraged communist revolutions worldwide. This organization supported revolutionary groups around the world and created a Red Scare in the United States.!