Totalitarianism
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- Created on: 15-10-20 06:55
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- Totalitarianism
- Stalin's Ideology
- Implementing a command economy based on centralised planning and colectivisation
- The personlisation of the structure so everything was in the hands of Stalin
- This was achieved through the "cult of personality", propaganda, censorship, and extreme repression
- Why Stalin created a totalitarian state
- For the Five-Year-Plans and colectivisation to be successful, he needed complete control and for no one to question his authority
- He was a megalomania that needed total control and power
- He actually built upon Leninism as the Party Central Committee and the Cheka indicated that Lenin was going towards total control
- De-Stalinisation
- Khrushchev came to power after the death of Stalin in1953
- Secret Speech (20th Party Congress, 1956)
- Khrushchev denounced Stalin even though he was beloved
- Lenin didn't want Stalin to be leader
- Stalin had not prepared the USSR for WWII
- Stalin had committed crimes against the Russian People
- Stalin had alienated allies like HUngary
- Khrushchev denounced Stalin even though he was beloved
- Methods of de-Stalinisation
- dismantling the gulags
- relaxing censorship
- attempting to remove the cult of personality
- Failed to completely remove authoritarian rule, especially with the satellite states
- Stalin's Ideology
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