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Lenin Gets Control

Lenin Gets Control. Red Army claims victory Lenin takes control Estb. NEP (New Economic Policy) By 1928, Russia was producing pre war levels 1922, the country was renamed U.S.S.R Bolsheviks renamed the communist party. Lenin.

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Lenin Gets Control

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  1. Lenin Gets Control • Red Army claims victory • Lenin takes control • Estb. NEP (New Economic Policy) • By 1928, Russia was producing pre war levels • 1922, the country was renamed U.S.S.R • Bolsheviks renamed the communist party

  2. Lenin • Lenin establishes a dictatorship of the party not a dictatorship of the proletariat (Marx pushed for) • Lenin suffers a stroke in 1922, he survives but competition begins to replace him • Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin are the leading men • Lenin dies in 1924, before his death he did not trust Stalin and his use of power • Lenin body is kept in Red Square in Russia

  3. Lenin’s Body

  4. Stalin Becomes Dictator • Stalin outmaneuvered Trotsky & had total control of the party • Trotsky was exiled from Russia in 1929 • Stalin now Dictator of the country

  5. Totalitarianism • Totalitarianism- govt. takes total control over every aspect of human life • To accomplish this control dictators use: • Terror (violence to force obedience) • Indoctrination (instruction of govt. beliefs) • Propaganda (biased or incomplete information) • Censorship (control of the media) • Religious or Ethnic Persecution (state must estb. a scapegoat for all of its problems)

  6. Stalin Builds a Tolalitarian State • Builds a secret police • Monitored phone lines, read mail & planted informers • Used Russian propaganda • Controlled all newspapers, media, motion pictures & etc… • Government controlled all education • Children learned virtues of the Communist Party • Religious Persecution • Russian Orthodox main target

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