STALIN NEED TO KNOW

Communist/Marxist/Bolshevik

SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY- building up the military and industry before expanding communism

Climbing the Ranks- General Secretary Position

Manipulates Politburo

exiles opposition (trotsky)

Propaganda: Lenins Testament, Cult of Lenin, Leningrad

Lenin’s Death: everyone vying for control

Inherits Lenins Policies

collectivization

Stalin used G.S position and Intel to isolate members of the party such as Trotsky and Zinoviev to exile and remove them from Politburo

G.S position allowed him to place supporters in higher positions

gained loyalty from citizens through the Cult of Lenin

• collectivization nationalizes country

• Red Army kills/converts opposition

• Gulags to remove opposition

• Five Year Plan success

• GREAT PURGES (1936-38)

  • Moscow Show Trials + NKVD eliminates all potential threats and frightens citizens into compliance

• Propaganda with Cult of Lenin + Success of Five Yr Plans

• socialism in one country

  • establish industry and military in USSR before expanding communism

• The West’s rejection of communism affects all foreign policy (POPULAR FRONT)

  • also leads him to target the East + developing countries to convert them

• Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)

  • ensures Stalin time to rebuild military and promises return of lost land from Brest-Litovsk

• collectivization (1928)

  • nationalized land + collective farms

• FIRST 5 yr plan

  • nationalized heavy industry

• SECOND 5 yr plan

  • production of consumer goods

• THIRD 5 yr plan

  • rebuilding military (for WWII)

• New Soviet Woman

  •  praised women’s roles as workers and mothers. this was essential propaganda, using false advocacy to enlist women into the workforce