3.4 For the love of the fatherland

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3.4 For the love of the fatherland

Stalinism

Soviet Union needed ten years to achieve the increase in industrial production. Were the west needed decades. 

1. Controlled the press 
2. Propaganda was widespread 
3. Secrect police who kept an eye on the citizens

He formed the SU in to a totalitarian state 

(Stalinism) 

Forced labor camps were used for all the political rivals, people who oppesed against the oppression and some people were taken there at random 

How did Stalinism affect the daily lives of Soviet Union citizens?
Religion:

How did Stalinism affect the daily lives of Soviet Union citizens?
Political:

How did Stalinism affect the daily lives of Soviet Union citizens?
Economic:

How did Stalinism affect the daily lives of Soviet Union citizens?
Social:

The Great terror 

Stalin got rid of the old Bolsheviks

The Great terror (1934 - 1938) 

• Show trials 
• Nobody was safe 
• There was a secret police within the secret police 

Snitch culture 

''Purrification'' was complete in 1939 ( 6 mill) 

The last person who was convicted was Stalins head of state security service

Give some reasons for Stalin's Great Terror.
Two answers are correct

1. Stalin wanted to settle accounts with several critics of his policy within the party
2. Stalin had thousands of opponents, spies and enemies
3. Stalin was suspicious; he saw enemies everywhere
4. The secret police was not to be trusted and had to be checked

What does 'show trial' mean

Explain why Stalin set up these trials.

WO II (1)

Stalin did not trust Britain and France ( Munich conference) 

Signed a treaty with Hitler 

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact 

• Won't attack each other 
• Stalin took control of Estonia, Latvia and parts of Poland and Finland. 

WO II (2) 

SU suffered a lot of losses when Germany invaded

Battle of Stalingrad turning point in the war 

20 million people died during the war 

98.000 collective farms were destroyed 

Production in mining and iron declined 60% 

Stalin became a hero, he defeated Hitler  

How did the Soviet Union become involved in the Second World War?