TOTALITARIANISMS

THE USSR: STALINISM

system of totalitarian government
established in the USSR

Stalin eliminated political rivals

STALIN GOVERNMENT

political party
held by Stalin

approved Constitution of 1936

CPSU only political party

spread communism through Cominterm

economy controlled
by state

five-year plans

industralisation of the USSR

collectivisation of land

nationalisation of existing industries

hydraulic works

social equality

there were differences

governing elite

rest of the population

ITALIAN FASCISM

constitutional monarchy
of Victor Emmanuel II

badly affected by post-war economic crisis

Fasci (volunteer militias)

Fasci combar groups

National Fascist Party (1921) by Mussolini

Dictatorship

politics

all power to himself

economy

government intervened

social policies

ended the unres

NAZI GERMANY

Adolf Hitler

leader of the National Socialist
German Workers (1921)

won the elections (1933)

Chancellor

Dictatorship

head of state (1934)

Third Reich

Nazi Party only legal political party

expansionist policy

great economic development

German Aryan race superior

anti-Semitic

1930s

German Jews

persecuted by regime