The document discusses communism in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. It describes how the Soviet Union aimed to empower workers and have industry controlled by the people, but it actually resulted in wealth being controlled by the government. Stalin took power after Lenin and instituted five-year plans to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union through collectivization of farms and heavy industry, but this came at the cost of individual freedoms and created a repressive police state with censorship and propaganda. Stalin carried out a "Great Purge" that executed thousands of communists and religious believers seen as threats to his rule.

1. Totalitarian Russia
Communism in Action

2. Introduction
 Socialism and communism were the main
ideologies of the Soviet Union, which was
what the new government of Russia
named itself after the Bolshevik
Revolution.
 The goal of communism:
◦ Empower the Proletariat (working man)
◦ Weaken the capitalist businessman (guy who
builds businesses and makes money)
◦ Industry and businesses are controlled by the
people (ends up being the government “for

3. Money and Drive
 Wealth was to be
evenly distributed
to the people.
 Competition
would be
eliminated and
everyone would
work together.
 Instead of owning
private property,
collectivization
(owning property
as a group)
became the goal
of society.

4. Changing Society
 Communism’s goal is
to change society. To
do this, democracy
(voting) and
capitalism (earning
your own money) are
done away with.
 It did away with
religious beliefs and
persecuted believers.

5. Socialism is…..
 The economics of communism.
 The goal is to create an economic system
where everyone shares in the wealth
created by business and government owns
the businesses for the people’s benefits.
Socialism’s Goal

6. How Children See It!
How Americans Push For It!
Reality of It!

7. Joseph Stalin
 When Lenin died,
Joseph Stalin began
working to take over
the Soviet Union.
 In 1928, he became
the leader of the
Soviet Union.
 He began by exiling
his rival Leon Trotsky
(who mysteriously
was murdered soon
thereafter).

8. Pros and Cons
 Pros
 Made the Soviet
Union an industrial
power.
 5 Year Plans –
heavy industry
increased mainly
(military items and
government stuff)
 Cons
 Created a secret
police to monitor
everyone
 Censored the news
 Heavily relied on
propaganda
 Consumer goods
(regular people stuff)
was not built as
much.

9. The Great Purge
 Even communists were not safe! He put to
death thousands of communists he didn’t
trust.
 Slaughtered the Russian Orthodox Church
leaders and killed many believers.

10. Agriculture
 Everyone had to give up their farms.
Remember no private ownership was
allowed. The government then
created huge farms and made people
farm them.
 People with nice farms who tried to
keep their farms were killed.
 The economy and educational level in
the Soviet Union increased, but
people lost their rights.