:of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state

TotalitarianismBy: Grant Hall

Vladimir Lenin

✤ Was the leader who lead the Bolshevik Revolution, and established a Communist government in Russia

✤ The proletariat were the lower working class

✤ Lenin’s New Economic Plan was a plan to bring capital into the government

Stalin

✤ The Great Purge was Stalin’s actions in removing all opponents and enemies out of Soviet life

✤ His Five Year Plans were a set of Economic Goals to be met, that would change Russia from an Agriculture State to and Industrial State

✤ Collectivization was a system in which private farms were eliminated and the government control all of the land.

Leon Trotsky

✤ Trotsky was a War Commissar while Lenin was still alive

✤ After Lenin died Trotsky was exiled from Russia under Stalin’s command and was later killed in Mexico

Mao Zedong

✤ He was a Leader in China

✤ He was the Founding Leader of the Communist Party in China and lead the Revolution that would change the course of China’s history forever.

✤ He believed that the peasants were the driving force of the revolution.

✤ He defeated Sun Yat-sen, to take power.

Mao Zedong

✤ His Cultural Revolution was a way to capture the glory days of the revolution to ignite a fire in the masses souls

✤ The Great Leap Forward was Mao's bad plan that decided the nation could be psyched up about industrialism

✤ This failed and lead to a famine and economic depression

Hitler

✤ Mein Kampf was a book by Hitler that expressed his political ideologies

✤ The fire at the Reichstag was an arson attack, on German Parliament building. This is known as establishment of Nazi Germany

✤ The SS was a paramilitary stormtrooper unit

Mussolini

✤ He set up Fascist Government

✤ He had a good relationship with the Catholic Church because it was such a powerful institution in Italy

✤ The Blackshirts were a Fascist Stormtrooper unit that enforced Mussolini’s political movements

✤ His nickname of Il Duce