Stalin's Dictatorship in the 1930's
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- Created on: 11-06-17 18:57
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- How did Stalin strengthen his rule? (30's)
- Purges: Outcomes
- 500,000 arrested
- Targeted Old Bolsh, Mensheviks, & Teachers of old communism
- 18 million sent to Gulags
- 10 million killed, incl. 25,000 army generals, left army weak and in chaos
- Punishments: psych. torture, phys. torture, threatening families
- Had to obey Stalin completely to survive
- Govt. Control
- Used the POLITBURO to control the whole govt.
- New secret police - NKVD
- 1936 Constitution - gave rights and some freedoms to people (e.g. speech) BUT NKVD could ignore them
- 1 party elections - all communist candidates
- Purges: Causes
- Not one set reason - Maybe Stalin loved cruelty/ was paranoid
- He may have thought that 'Old Bolsh' could weaken his position
- Helps gain Nationalist support, unify the nation, and improve Russia by removing imperfection
- Purges: Events
- Show trials - ridiculous accusations, confessed out of fear, published in papers
- Used prison, torture, exile, execution, & gulags
- Workers encouraged to report any suspicious people
- 1934 - The Purges began
- 1934 - Kirov (his main opponent) murdered in Leningrad
- 1936 - Kamanev & Zinoviev murdered
- 1938 - Bukharin murdered
- 1940 - Trotsky (in Mexico) murdered
- 1938 - Bukharin murdered
- 1936 - Kamanev & Zinoviev murdered
- 1934 - Kirov (his main opponent) murdered in Leningrad
- Cult of the Personality
- Used prop. & censor. to intimidate, + NKVD
- Pics edited to show Stalin as close to Lenin - not true
- Churches closed, religion controlled, taught that Stalin > God, Muslims & Jews persecuted
- Culture totally controlled by Stalin
- Rewrote history: he was the only hero (+ Lenin), had nothing to do with atrocities
- Brainwashed Proletariat with processions & rallies
- Purges: Outcomes
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