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    Totalitarianism under Stalin involved strict government control over all aspects of public and private life. Propaganda and censorship allowed the most long-term control by allowing the state to control the media narrative. Stalin used terror tactics like the Great Purge to eliminate political threats and consolidate power. He explained that art should glorify the state and instituted atheism by persecuting religious groups. Stalin instituted a command economy through Five Year Plans but this caused shortages. He collectivized agriculture by taking private farms and creating collective farms, and dealt with resisting landowners called Kulaks by liquidating them as a class.

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    Totalitarianism under Stalin involved strict government control over all aspects of public and private life. Propaganda and censorship allowed the most long-term control by allowing the state to control the media narrative. Stalin used terror tactics like the Great Purge to eliminate political threats and consolidate power. He explained that art should glorify the state and instituted atheism by persecuting religious groups. Stalin instituted a command economy through Five Year Plans but this caused shortages. He collectivized agriculture by taking private farms and creating collective farms, and dealt with resisting landowners called Kulaks by liquidating them as a class.

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    Totalitarianism under Stalin involved strict government control over all aspects of public and private life. Propaganda and censorship allowed the most long-term control by allowing the state to control the media narrative. Stalin used terror tactics like the Great Purge to eliminate political threats and consolidate power. He explained that art should glorify the state and instituted atheism by persecuting religious groups. Stalin instituted a command economy through Five Year Plans but this caused shortages. He collectivized agriculture by taking private farms and creating collective farms, and dealt with resisting landowners called Kulaks by liquidating them as a class.

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    Totalitarianism under Stalin

    1. Define the term totalitarianism Government that takes total, centralized, state,
    control over every aspect of public and private life.
    2. While reading the excerpt, create a list of methods of control used by Soviet leaders
    and examples
    Methods
    1. Police Terror
    2. Indoctrination
    3. Propaganda and
    Censorship
    4. Religious or Ethnic
    Persecution

    Examples
    1. Spying on citizens,
    intimidating citizens, brutal force,
    murder
    2. Control of education
    3. Control of all mass media,
    no publication, film, art, or music
    allowed to be produced without
    state permission
    4. Campaigns of terror,
    violence

    Of all the methods of control, which allows the MOST long-term control? The method
    of control that allows the MOST long-term control would be the propaganda and
    censorship. In my opinion it allows the most control because nothing can be put out
    without the permission from the state and they can change the media and make it say
    what they want it to say. If the state does not want people to think a certain way they
    can change it and censor it to the way they want it to sound.
    3. Stalins methods of control.
    a. What was the Great Purge? Campaign of terror directed at eliminating
    anyone who threatened Stalins power
    How would Stalins use of this action increase his power? Anyone against
    him or threatening his power was killed or terrorized. No one could go against
    him, and those who did could be sent to concentration camps.
    b. What was Pravda? Editorial in Communist party newspaper explaining the
    purpose of art
    How did Stalin explain the purpose of art in the USSR? He explained the
    purpose of art by saying Literature, the cinema, the arts are levers in the hands
    of the proletariat which must be used to show the masses positive models of
    initiative and heroic labor.
    c. What is an atheism? Lack in a belief of an existence of a god or gods
    How did Stalin use atheism to influence his control over his citizens?
    Exhibits showing that religious beliefs were just superstitions, killing or sending
    religious leaders to concentration camps.

    4. Stalins control over the economy.


    a. What is a command economy? System in which the government made all
    economic decisions
    b. Stalins Five Year Plans
    1. Purpose Development of the Soviet Unions economy
    2. Results? Severe shortage of housing, food, clothing, and other
    necessary goods for people
    c. What methods did Stalin use to bring agriculture under state control? Taking
    control of over 25 million farms that were privately owned in the USSR and turning them
    into large, government owned farms called collective farms.
    d. Kulaks Who were they? They are people who fiercely resisted
    collectivization.
    1. How did they create a problem for Stalin? Kulaks murdered officials,
    torched properties of the collectives, and burned their own crops and grain in
    protest.
    2. How did he solve the problem? Stalin solved the problem by declaring
    they should liquidate kulaks as a class. The state took control of their land and
    equipment. They also confiscated stores of food and grain.

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