Totalitarianism
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- Created on: 13-11-15 14:45
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- Totalitarianism
- Struggle for power after Lenin's death 1924
- Stalin manipulated individuals to gain support
- 1928 onwards= redefined Marxism-Leninism and Russia became totalitarian
- Stalin's ideology
- Command economy
- Change the super-structure
- Control of economy, society, and politics.
- Achieved through propaganda
- Achieved through increased censorship and repression on a mass scale
- Command economy
- Destalinisation
- Power struggle following Stalin's death
- Khrushchev in control
- 1956- plan to move Soviet Union away from Stalinism
- De-Stalinisation process
- Releasing gulag prisoners
- Relaxing censorship
- Removing cult of personality
- Denounced Stalin on the grounds that...
- Lenin didn't choose Stalin
- Stalin wasn't prepared for WW2
- Allies alienated
- Crimes against the Russian people
- De-Stalinisation process
- Power struggle following Stalin's death
- Stalin and totalitarianism
- Exploited the situation to solve Russia's problems
- No one allowed to question 5 Year Plan or collectivis-ation
- Stalin built on a base laid by Lenin
- He believed Lenin would have moved towards totalitarianism
- Did anything to maintain power
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