Terrorist : use secret police to spy and arrest the opposite party. Check any rebel.

Have you been naughty or nice.

No speech freedom, total obedience Police Terror

Used terror and violence to stop the opposition No privacy Great purge: campaign of terror. Eliminate whoever got in Stalins way Controlled all education. College professors and students who went against the communist party lost their jobs or faced imprisonment.

The Soviet Union Under Stalin (Russian) After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin gained control of the government. Stalin aimed to turn the Soviet Union into a powerful industrial state. He aimed at rapid growth of heavy industry and increased farm production. In a series of fiveyear plans, Many resources were poured into steel mills, electric power stations, and other industries needed in a strong modern state. He also forced millions of peasants to give up their land and work on collective farms, large, government-run enterprises. Many peasants opposed the change, and millions died. To achieve his goals, Stalin created a new kind of government, today called a

totalitarian state. In a totalitarian state, the government is a single-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens. They have no rights and must obey the government without question, critics are silenced. Also, the totalitarian state supports extreme nationalism. Government newspapers glorified work and Stalin himself. Secret police spied on citizens, and anyone who refused to praise Stalin and the state faced severe punishment, even death.

Joseph Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union (1924-1934)

When Lenin died in 1924, he left a power vacuum. The primary contenders for political power were Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Leon Trotsky was a brilliant politician. Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party on November 12, 1927, and expelled from the Soviet Union in 1928. he was murdered in 1940, probably on Stalin's orders.

The First Five-Year Plan and Collectivization (19271939)

Stalin introduced a plan for rapidly industrializing the largely rural Soviet Union, came up with basis for the Five-Year Plan, aimed to turn the country into a major industrial power within five years. The plan set ridiculously high quotas for development, especially in the areas of coal and iron output. As a result, steel production grew exponentially. Harsh totalitarian measures were introduced. Poor and hazardous working conditions caused countless deaths. As another part of the Five-Year Plan, the government began to forcibly collectivize agriculture. By 1936, 90% of the nation's farms had been collectivized.

The Great Purges and Politics in the Soviet Union (1930-1939)

Through 1936-1937, a period known as the Great Terror, Stalin supposedly personally signed 40,000 death warrants. Religion came under intense pressure as well, as atheism was the official policy of the state. Priests were rounded up and shipped to Gulag or executed. By the end of the terror, less than 1,000 churches remained out of at least 20,000. The Soviet secret police, hunted down citizens suspected of

"counter-revolutionary" or "subversive" crimes. During the Great Terror, as many as 1 million people were executed for simply "opposing" Stalin's ideas and plans. Soviet state cultivated an extreme cult of personality around Stalin. Pictures of the dictator appeared at every street corner and in every building, including people's homes.