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Stalin_De Leon_Plumb (The Emergence of Stalin’s Authoritarian State…
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Lenin's enrollment was a from 1923-1925 to enroll members of the proletariat into the communist party.
Literature: The Union of Soviet Writers: unite all writers who supported the the Soviet and who wrote about it in a positive light. "era of silence" If you didn't write that.
Music renaissance in the 1930's, where many great pieces were composed and revered in society.
Visual arts had to capture "soviet realism". Nothing could be abstract or require any thought. It was like propaganda.
Lenin died in January 21, 1924 making the Soviet Union stay without a leader providing for Stalin to rise up to power and take control the USSR.
When western nations started to cut of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. This than created fear towards the Soviet that the West might be preparing an attack to the Soviet Union again.
Religion was banned, but people continued in secret. Stalin wanted to become a "godlike" figure.
Education was mandatory. You were taught about industrial jobs and how to work hard. Job Opportunities opened up-Stalin wanted "Red Specialists" to teach the ways of Bolshevism.
Leninism was the act created by Lenin as socialist, political and economic theories developed from Marxism towards application to the socio-political requires of the USSR
Stalin wanted the land and food under State control. He did so by separating farmer families and sending individuals to farms all over Russia to complete harsh work. Punishment for resistance or not completing quotas was death, torture, or becoming exiled. Opposers were called Kulaks.
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Was for 3 years, 1918-19221 it was a civil war between any group that oppose to the Bolsheviks, they were considered white and the Bolsheviks were considered red.
Lenin appointed Stalin to serve as the first central committer of the Bolsheviks Party. than in 1917 the Bolsheviks Party seized power in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin rewarded Joseph Stalin for his support of the October Revolution by appointing him Commissar of Nationalities. He than was able to acquire power from half the population.
Socialism in one country was appointed by Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin in 1924 which was eventually adopted by the Soviet Union as state policy. Although, the theory was in opposition to Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution.
Some of the conditions in which Stalin's authoritarian state emerged was social division, economic, impact of war, and weakness in political system.
In 1918 Trotsky founded the red army. By the end of the Civil War the Red Army had reached over 5 million members, most were conscripted. Trotsky introduced the ‘controversial policy’. This recruited former officers of the tsaristsTrotsky also toured every front in the civil war in an armored train to check up on the units and deliver stirring political speeches so he could never be seen as a military commander that stayed away from the fighting. army to fight for the communists and to ensure their loyalty, Trotsky held their families hostage
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Stalin was able to use the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts and patriotism
The Great Purge or the Great Terror was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of wealthy landlords and the Red Army leadership.
World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries that including all the great powers they formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union was a Soviet ritual, especially during the 1920s.
Was the reforms attempting to industrialize Russia disrupted society, also the tsarist regime and the provisional government were unstable, WWI had a crippling effect on Russia and The Whites sided with the provisional government and ex-tsarists.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world.
Army: generals, admirals and officers shot. Church: religious leaders imprisoned. Ethnic groups: victims to Russification. 20 million Russians were sent to the camps, where perhaps half of them died.
aim to establish and maintain control, which was very successful considering that Stalin’s name defined a whole political system: “Stalinism”. Also unification of the poor and uneducated masses. From 1936, when the cult was fully established Stalin was portrayed as the father of the nation, all powerful and all knowing.
The USSR first joined forces with Germany, the Nazis, until Hitler turned on Stalin and attacked the USSR through Operation Barbarossa.
Stalin's incredibly harsh actions. So many people were killed randomly. Driven by the NKVD. There was the Purge of the Military, Purge of the Party, and Purge of the People.
Purges similar to the early purges, but on a scale much less than before.
Women were allowed to work, and have the same duties as men, to create a more equal society, following communist ideology. But during the "Great Retreat", Stalin wanted women to take on more traditional household, family-raising roles.
Minorities faced discrimination, as well as the policy of Russification. Stalin tried to convert everyone, every religion/race/ethnicity, to become full Russian, or else you were killed or exiled.
First Five Year Plan 1929: The goal was to industrialize. Bring peasants to the cities and have them build infrastructure and increase production of all goods.
Second Five Year Plan 1932: Focus switched to producing heavy industrial goods. Machinery building.
Third Five Year Plan: Building weapons to re-arm the country. Always increasing the industry and production and resources.
Stalin successfully created an Authoritarian State. Everybody feared him, and followed his bidding. He scared people enough to not try to oppose him. Or else they were killed.
Trotsky was liked more by Lenin, but he did not have the will to fight Stalin for power. Zinoviev/Kamenev/Bukharin were also candidates for leader position. Stalin removed these people through expelling them from the committees they were apart of, or exiling them and blaming/disgracing them. Joining them and them and then turning on them. Damaging their reputations.
Widespread famine for the peasants. They had to hand over most of their grain to the government for the cities. They were left very little.
The NEP was much less harsh than War Communism. War Communism damaged the economy. The NEP turned backed to capitalism. Still government control, but small businesses could be privately owned. War Communism, everything was harshly controlled by the state, and many peasants and sailors opposed it.
The cost of food decreased, while the cost of industrial good increased. Industrial growth was slow, while agricultural production had recovered after war communism by 1923. Peasants began producing less food. Peasants could not afford industrial goods, so resolved to grow food only for themselves.
Large aspect. Visual art was practically propaganda. Everything had to advertise the Soviet Union and make Stalin look supreme.
Labour discipline: strict rules and quotas needed to be followed and fulfilled. Punishment was harsh and brutal for anything that didn't slightly satisfy demands: death, torture, or exile.
Complete State dominance over the people. Everything was controlled by a dictatorship: Social, Political, Cultural. Following Communist ideology. Controlled by Stalin and his orders.