Life in a Totalitarian State

1. Life in a TotalitarianState Totalitarianism after WWI Another positive learning experience at Camp Haskell!

2. 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.

3. 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 it’s 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

4. 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.

5. Stalin used propaganda, censorship, and terror to rule the Soviet Union. i.e. Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein. Theories of a Totalitarian State