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04 STALINISM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - assassinated in 1940 by a Soviet agent
      - defended the expansion of the revolution
    - - progressively normalised diplomatic relations with capitalist countries
      - imposed his vision of socialism on a single country
      - The USSR joined the League of Nations in 1934.
      - To reinforce his foreign policy
        
        tried to control communist parties around the world through Comintern
        
        made to coordinate communist organisations
        
        later used to serve Stalin’s interests
        
        goal was not to support the revolution, but to ensure the security of the Soviet state
        
        Founded in 1919
    - - stalin unleashed waves of political terror (Stalinist purges)
        
        Thousands of people were placed under surveillance and arrested
        
        interned in forced labour camps called gulags
        
        Millions of people were victimised, imprisoned, deported or executed
        
        In addition, massive political trials were held, involving even old Bolsheviks
    - - He decreed the end of the New Economic Policy (NEP)
        
        replacing it with economic planning and centralisation
        
        did this using five-year plans
        
        aim, making the country self-sufficient from an industrial and military point of view
        
        successful USSR electrification project
        
        the five-year plans boosted the development of
        
        heavy industry
        
        basic equipment
        
        infrastructure
        
        The five-year plans also included the collectivisation of agriculture
        
        forced expropriations to create collective farms (kolkhoz) and state farms (sovkhoz)
        
        The collectivisation was brutally carried out
        
        many kulaks (wealthy or prosperous peasants)
        
        those who resisted were executed
        
        were driven from their properties or deported en masse
        
        new policy brought profound industrial renewal
        
        it produced a phase of accelerated economic growth
        
        However, it suffered significant social rejection
        
        due to the repression of any type of opposition
        
        due to the low standard of living that it imposed on the population
    - - born in Georgia
      - A tenacious revolutionary, he seized power in the USSR by eliminating his rivals
      - launched purges to impose his power and used propaganda to consolidate his personality cult