Life in a Totalitarian State

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Life in a TotalitarianState

• Totalitarianism after WWI
• Another positive learning experience at Camp
  Haskell!

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Standards What you SHOULD be learning!

• 10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian
  governments after World War I. 1. Understand
  the causes and consequences of the Russian
  Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian
  means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the
  Gulag).
• 2. Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet
  Union and the connection between economic
  policies, political policies, the absence of a
  free press, and systematic violations of human
  rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).
• 3. Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs
  of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist)
  in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting
  especially their common and dissimilar traits.
  i.e. Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.

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Joseph Stalin

• Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a
  totalitarian state, where a one-party
  dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of
  the lives of its citizens.
• Stalin censored, or withheld, news from inside
  and outside the USSR.

Stalin gained the nickname "Uncle Joe" which was
an attempt to develop an image of a kind, homely
man who was the father of all Russians
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Censored Arts

• Stalin developed what became known as a
  "personality cult Artists painted pictures
  glorifying Stalin  and he dominated many
  pictures. It was not unusual for Stalin to be in
  a white suit so that he stood out from the crowd.
  This was all called "Social Realism Those who
  wrote poems and novels had to do the same - write
  about Stalin in a manner which gloried him. Some
  artists and authors were so depressed by all this
  that they committed suicide rather than do what
  the state ordered them to do.

Roses for Stalin by Boris Ieremeevich
Vladimirski.
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Theories of a Totalitarian State

• Stalin used propaganda, censorship, and terror to
  rule the Soviet Union. i.e. Hitler, Mussolini,
  Saddam Hussein.