By: Sebastian Trout

*Life in a Totalitarian State

*Introduction

*From the 1930’s untill his death, Stalin tried to boost morale and faith in the communist system by making himself look like a god to everyone else.*This “cult of personality” was ane more

pilliar to support his absolute power.

* An “Iron Age” of Totalitarian Control

*Joseph Stalin turned the soviet union into a totalitarian state.*In a Totalitarian state, a one-party

dictatorship will attempt to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens.

*Continued….

*The communists replaced religion with their own ideology.*Like a religion, communist ideology had its

own “sacred” text

*Changes in Soviet Society

*The Communists transformed Russian life. They destroyed the old social order of landowning nobles at the top and serfs at the bottom.*At the front of the society were members

of the communist party. Only a small part of soviet citizens were allowed to join the party.

*The Arts and the State

*The Bolshevik Revolution at first meant greater freedom for Russian artists and writers.*The government controlled what books

were published, what music was heard, and which works of art were put on display.

*Looking Ahead

*Strick censorship, huge propaganda, and terror were instruments used by Joseph Stalin to ensure personal power and to push the Soviet union toward modernization.