Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin After Lenins death in

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin After Lenin’s death in 1924 a successor was needed to be chosen to run the Soviet Union l Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky were the leading candidates l Stalin the general secretary to the Bolshevik party gained support through the people he hired. l Stalin rose to power and stripped Trotsky of his Bolshevik membership. 1. Why do you think Stalin stripped Trotsky of his membership to the Bolshevik party? l

First Five Year Plan Stalin wanted to improve the Russian economy l Stalin wanted to build heavy industry, improve transportation and increase farm output l To achieve his goal Stalin brought all economic activity under government control or a command economy l Many managers were concerned with meeting quotas that Stalin put on the factories so they produced a lot of goods but at low quality l Factories, hydroelectric power stations and railroads were built during the five year plan 1. Do you think that the five year plan was successful or not? Why? l

Five Year Plan

Totalitarian State Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state which a one party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens l To ensure obedience Stalin used secret police, censorship and terror l Propaganda was used to show communism was successful and capitalism was not 1. How would censorship and propaganda be hard to control today? l