2.2 Soviet Union
2.2 Soviet Union
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2.2 Soviet Union
Learning goals
You can describe the economy and society of the Soviet Union.
You can explain what the Great Terror meant.
You can use examples to show that communism was an international movement.
The economy and society (1)
The communist party under control of Lenin started to reform the economy.
Nationalization ( Agricultural, factories and banks ) State owned.
eventually reversed the economic measures
Succession
Lenin died in 1924
Two men fought for the leadership position
Trotsky was a follower of Karl Marx and Stalin wanted communism at home.
The economy and society (2)
Stalin took over and had different ideas
Planned economy
The SU used Five-year Plans
Priority was given to coal,oil, electircity, steel and tractors.
Everything resolved around heavy industry.
There was a shortage of shoes, clothes and other basic needs
Collectivised
Farms had to be upgraded
All the farms were collectivised
These large collective farmes were called kolkhozes.
They had to produce according the 5 year plans. All their produce went to the state.
The peasants weren't happy about this
They didn't want to hand over their crops
Seen as the enemy
Millions died between 1929 - 1933 (famine)
The Great terror
Stalin got rid of the old Bolsheviks
The Great terror (1936 - 1938)
Show trials
Nobody was safe
There was a secret police within the secret police
Snitch culture
''Purrification'' was complete in 1939 ( 6 mill)
The last person who was convicted was Stalins head of state security service
The Great Terror
Punishment camps (gulags)
Totalitarian state
The state decides what you do and think.
Communism elsewhere in the world
Communism is an international movement.
They assumed the working class would overthrow the bourgeoisie.
In Germany it almost happend after WWI
They Soviet-Union stayed the only communist country until WW2
12. Use the data to support the statement that the Five-Year Plan was a success and a failure as well.
Give some reasons for Stalin's Great Terror. Two answers are correct
Stalin wanted to settle accounts with several critics of his policy within the party
Stalin had thousands of opponents, spies and enemies
Stalin was suspicious; he saw enemies everywhere
The secret police was not to be trusted and had to be checked
How had Stalin become so powerful when Lenin was still alive?
he was trusted by Lenin
he gave friends important jobs in the party
he had helped the Bolsheviks win the Civil War
he had ended WW1
Explain what was collective about the "Collectivisation" of the Soviet agriculture.
