Stalin’s Totalitarian Regime

??? LENIN’S SUCCESSOR ??? RUSSIA TOTALITARIANISM

Government takes total, centralized, state control
over people’s daily lives (public & private)

STALIN VS TROTSKY

DICTATOR• By 1928, Stalin wielded absolute power

over everything:
government
economy
many aspects of citizens’ private lives

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DICTATOR’S WEAPONS
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o Police Terror Indoctrination Propaganda & Religious or Ethnic
y th to rank among the most powerful world nations Censorship Persecution
—politically and economically. • brutal force, Through the education • biased or incomplete • Totalitarian leaders
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intimidation, and system, information pick a scapegoat to be
HO spying to achieve their • mold people’s minds used to sway people “enemies of the
By use of: goals: to the govt’s beliefs to accept certain state”
* Terror / Violence * government purges (to rid any personal opposition) • forcing obedience • glorify the leader / his beliefs / actions • blamed for anything
* propaganda * indoctrination * censorship * • enforcing the policies • Cannot claim that that goes wrong
govt’s policies • convince all citizens info is wrong • =targets of terror and
* religious or ethnic persecution *
• crush opposition that their • State controls ALL violence
unconditional loyalty mass media
* Charismatic leader can: build support for his policies and support are • nothing is
and can justify his actions through his words * required published without
state’s permission

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