Aim: What was life like under Stalin?

Do Now: 1. In your own words compare Lenin’s National
Economic Policy to Stalin’s Five-Year Plan.


V Collective Farms

A. All land combined

1. Farmers worked land together

2. each with a special job

3. quotas to be met

B. Problems:

1. Crop failure 1931-32

2. Kulaks: wealthier farmers who protested.

Killed their animals.

a. Millions executed or sent to Siberia

(approximately 10 million died)

VI. Communes

A. Huge farms - 100’s or 1,000’s work

B. Live together

C. Failed

I. Establishment of a Totalitarian State.

A. When one political party has total control

1. Leader of the party has absolute control (Stalin)

B. Suppressed opposition

1. Use of secret police

2. “Purges” - exile or kill suspected enemies within the Communist Party

C. Government control of newspapers, radio, T.V., magazines

1. Use of propaganda



II. Social aspects of Communism

A. Individual rights (though in the constitution) mean nothing

B. Equality for women

1. Workforce, salaries, etc.

C. Public education for all.
 
D. Religious teachers persecuted. Atheists.