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STALINISM - Coggle Diagram
STALINISM
TOTALITARIAN PHASE
Lenin died in 1924
expected
Soviet state would fall to a collective body
Trotsky and Stalin
Stalin eliminated policies
Stalin the sole leader
USSR began a totalitarian phase
Trotsky
defended the expansion of the revolution
expelled from the Soviet Union (1929)
assassinated in 1940 by a Soviet agent
Stalin
imposed his vision of socialism on a single country
normalised diplomatic relations with capitalist countries
USSR joined the League of Nations in 1934
1930s
dictator unleashed waves of political terror
Stalinist purges
Thousands of people under surveillance and arrested
interned in forced labour camps
gulags
massive political trials
Soviet state took control of the economy
decreed the end of the New Economic Policy (NEP)
replaced with economic planning and centralisation
five-year plans
make the country self-sufficient from industrial and military ways
boosted the development of
heavy industry
basic equipment
infrastructure
included the collectivisation of agriculture
expropriations to create collective farms (kolkhoz
state farms (sovkhoz)
kulaks
were driven from their properties or deported en masse
NEW POLICY
brought profound industrial renewal
failed in agriculture and caused famines
phase of accelerated economic growth
paralleled the Great Depression in capitalist countries
suffered significant social rejection
repression of any type of opposition
low standard of living
Citizens did not benefit from industrialisation
heavy industry and arms were prioritised
not consumer goods
STALIN'S FOREIGN POLICY
tried to control communist parties
Comintern(1919)
coordinate communist organisations
later used to serve Stalin’s interests
goal
not to support the revolution
ensure the security of the Soviet state
