https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa en-us 2019-02-27 14:21:12 UTC 2019-02-27 14:42:08 UTC hello@padlet.com djforbes21 https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335897303 -Soviet elite= got more benefits than citizens who were not in the Soviet elite group
-Free schools/medical care
-Taught atheism 
-No social order/class
-Woman rights/equality ]]> 2019-02-27 14:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335897303 https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335898740 Stalin Foreign Policy
- formed Communist International or Comintern to encourage world wide revolution
- urged colonial people to rise up against imperialist powers
- Britain broke off relations because of Soviet schemes to turn the 1926 general strike into a revolution
- joined League of Nations in 1933
- after not being able to get an alliance with France and Britain against Germany, they turned around and made an alliance with Germany ]]> 2019-02-27 14:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335898740 https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335902584 - secret police, torture, violent purges
-police spies viloated personal privacy
- no free press
-critics were sent to gulags, labor camps
-the great purge killed of older generation of revolutionaries and 1/2 of the military officers]]> 2019-02-27 14:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335902584 https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335903292 Stalin Builds a Totalitarian State
•Tried to boost morale and faith in communist system by using propaganda to build a “cult of personality.”
•Government controlled and determained what works may be displayed or censored.
•Required artists to follow the socialist realism style.
•Promoting a policy of Russification; imposed Russian culture.
•Atheism became the official Soviet state policy.]]> 2019-02-27 14:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335903292 https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335906604 Stalin  build a command  economy
- held power for 30 yrs

* Five Year Plan 
-  changed  it into a modern industrial power 
-  economic activity is under government control 
-  Government pushed workers and managers to  reach goals and punish those that did not 
- between 1928 and 1939 large factories, hydroelectric power stations, oil, coal, steel production grew, mining expanded, and railroads were built
- western was in Great Depression
- little international trade, low quality goods 
- people changed conomic classes 
- Stalin water all peasants to farm on state owned land and were not allowed to farm on their own land]]> 2019-02-27 14:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/muehleisenl/qt0l227a74aa/wish/335906604