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AIM: How should history judge Stalin? Do Now: Do these quotes portray Stalin in a positive or negative light? Explain.
1. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns- why should we let them have ideas?”
2. “The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”
3. “Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
- Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin Vocabulary
• Command Economy – economy in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
• 5 – Year Plan – one of a series of plans instituted by Joseph Stalin to build the industry & increase farm output in the Soviet Union
• Collective – large farm owned & operated by workers as a group• Gulags – Russian prison camps, where peasants who resisted
collectivization were sent to work. Over 20 million Russians froze or starved to death in the camps.
• Cult of Personality - when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and at times, god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise
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What Were Stalin’s Aims?Russia’s production from heavy industries was very low compared to other countries.
Stalin wanted the USSR to modernize quickly so that it could make up a 50-year gap
in 10 years.
So, how did Stalin achieve his goal?Positive Achievements of Stalin Negative Achievements of Stalin
• Initiated his Five-Year Plans to make the Soviet Union a modern industrial nation. Under his plans huge increases in coal, oil and steel production were made.
• Collectivization - temporarily increased agricultural efficiency and production by creating huge-state owned farms.
• Great Terror- when peasants rebelled against collectivization, Stalin ordered the imprisonment of millions of citizens, without trial, into brutal work camps known as gulags. Over twenty million died as a result.
• Use of Secret Police (KGB)- hundreds of thousands of people were executed in order to intimidate the nation. Basic human rights were denied to all citizens.
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Read documents # 1 – 4 and answer the questions for each document
For each document write whether it is a positive or negative achievement by Stalin
• (Explain why you feel this way to your neighbor)
Activity
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Primary Source Activity• As a small boy, how did the author regard
Stalin? • What evidence of Stalin’s brutality does
Yevtushenko mention in this excerpt?
• What did ordinary Russian people think about Stalin’s rule? How did they avoid acknowledging reality?
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SummaryExit Card:
*Make sure to provide SPECIFIC examples to back up your outlook*
• Evaluate the rule of Stalin in the Soviet Union, taking into consideration the changes made and the methods used.
• Was Stalin a positive or negative influence on Russia under his leadership?