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Understanding Totalitarianism: The Impact of Government Control on Society and Individual Lives

Explore the concept of totalitarianism, its characteristics, and its implications for society. This discussion focuses on the role of police, propaganda, and censorship in establishing a totalitarian regime. We examine how indoctrination shapes beliefs and the persecution of religious and ethnic groups as a means of control. Create a fictional totalitarian state and identify its dictator, location, and societal impacts. Analyze how a democratic society can be transformed into a dictatorship, drawing parallels with historical figures like Stalin.

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Understanding Totalitarianism: The Impact of Government Control on Society and Individual Lives

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  1. Good Afternoon Please find your comrades, have a seat and take out your notes from yesterday

  2. Government of Total Control Provides a sense of security and a direction for the future.

  3. Police Terror • What is the purpose of Police in our society?

  4. Indoctrination • Instruction of Govt.’s beliefs to mold peoples minds.

  5. Propaganda & Censorship

  6. Persecution • Religious or Ethnic groups are targeted as enemies of the state to blame for things that go wrong.

  7. Seven Key Traits Totalitarianism Make a Chart on a separate sheet of paper or in your notes.

  8. Fictional Totalitarian State • In your groups: • Invent: Name of your state, identify the location, make up a name for the dictator, and list the effects of totalitarianism on individual lives. • Task: How would your regime/leader change a democratic and free country into one led by a dictator.

  9. How Stalin did it • Police State • Russian Propaganda and Censorship • Education and Indoctrination • Religious Persecution • League of the Militant Godless • Communism ideals to replace religion

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