history - joseph stalin

Totalitarianism

Complete government control of a territory and individuals

Police Terror

Use of brutal force to get citizens to obey, can spy as well

Indoctrination

Government control of education to mold people to support communism

Propaganda/Censorship

used to accept beliefs of a government through films, music, TV books, etc

All publications have to be government approved (not doing so is seen as treason)

Religious/Ethnic Persecution

• Creation of enemies of the state

• segregated areas

• Museum of Atheism

Command Economy

• system where the government made all economic decisions

Five-Year Plan

stalin’s attempt to grow the economy

Set high quotas for production of resources such as oil, coal, steel and limited consumer goods such as clothes, housing , food

Collective Farms

a bunch of a small farms combined into one large farm

many families would work on this large farm and grow food for the government

The Kulaks revolted, but the soviets eliminated them

State Farm

larger than collectives and mainly produced wheat

Kulaks

wealthy peasants that revolted but then killed by stalin

result of agricultural revolution

5-10 million peasants killed

wheat production doubled

people killed livestock and crops to protest