PPT-Stalin’s

manoeuvres within the politburo Opposed to the New Economic Policy Supported rapid industrialisation Trotsky believed that the extra money the peasants were making should fund industrialisation. Kissinger 16. Essential Question: What peace terms ware agreed to during the war?. Approaches to Peace. Churchill. Reestablish traditional balance of power . Counterbalance USSR. Stalin. Capitalize on territory gained during war. Learning Objectives:. Must identify traits of Stalin. Should complete a timeline of his life. Could link events in Russia to his personality. Starter – making inferences:. Look at the pictures on your hand out.. The Ussr under the age of Stalin. 1924-1956. Biography. Joseph Djugashvili. Born on 21 January 19879. . in Gori, Georgia. Son of a shoemaker and grandson of serfs. 1888-99: He receive 11 years of education( which was rare for a person of his class). L/O – To identify the significance of ideology in Stalin’s rise to power. Key Questions for this Section. How did ideology . help. Stalin achieve power?. Was Stalin’s ideology . a continuation . L/O – To identify the driving forces behind Stalin’s economic policies. Stalin’s USSR 1924-1953. Origins and Rise to Power. Ideology and Nature of the State. Establishment & Consolidation of his Rule. Power . struggle. 1924 - 27. Lenin . had. not . appointed a successor, but . adviced. other members . of. the . Politburo to remove . Stalin from . power, since he claimed . that. Stalin . had concentrated too much power in his. Yezhov. was relieved from his post as head of the NKVD and shot. . Lavrenty. Beria, a fellow Georgian and Stalin confidant, succeeded him as head of the NKVD. WHAT WAS THE EFFECT OF THE PURGES ON THE SOVIET UNION?. L/O: To explain how Stalin took over . E. astern . Europe . COMINFORM. Communist information Bureau. COMECON. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. The Iron Curtain. “A shadow has fallen has upon the scenes so lately lighted by the allied victory. From Stettin to the Baltic an iron curtain has fallen. Beyond that line lie all the states of central and eastern Europe. The Communist parties have been raised far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. This is certainly not the liberated Europe we sought to build. Nor is it one which allows permanent peace.”. Stalin Takes Power. When Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took power. He led the USSR through World War II and died in 1953. . By 1928, established himself as absolute dictator.. Totalitarian State. Recap.. The struggle for power. Industry and the five year plans. Agriculture and collectivisation. the purges. The cult of personality. Recap. When Lenin died in 1924, he had been very successful in imposing a communist dictatorship in Russia.. Mr. Daniel Lazar. Stalin: Hot . Emo. Hipster cum Statesman. c. 1902. Yalta, 1945. Building the USSR. 1922 . Constitution was democratic and socialist. Supreme Soviet. = elected legislature. Universal suffrage (18 and older). Pat Tillman. The news about Crimea. Propaganda in Modern Times. Strict & Censored. Secret police. Religion & art banned. Imprisonment &death to opposition. 1934 Purge. Large scale elimination of enemies. Stalinist Russia. Agricultural Revolution. Stalin’s agricultural revolution was also successful - & far more brutal- than his industrial revolution. . In 1928, the government began to . seize . A government that takes . total control . over every aspect of public AND private life.. People give up liberty for a . sense. of security.. Need a dynamic leader to pull it off. Stalin. Mao. Hitler.