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2.5 How Did Stalin Control Russia

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2.5 How Did Stalin Control Russia

The document contains a desk checklist and information about an upcoming lesson on how Stalin controlled Russia, including learning objectives and recap questions from a previous lesson. The upcoming lesson will demonstrate how Stalin became the leader of the USSR and maintained power, with objectives for students to explain how Stalin overcame opposition, the methods he used to maintain power, and assessing the significance of his actions. Recap questions review that Lenin did not include all socialist parties to maintain power, territories Russia lost in a treaty, and the purpose of the CHEKA.

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Today’s desk checklist Sunday, January 14, 2024 Change and Continuity

• Book
• Planner
• Pencil case
Enquiry Question
Why did the Russian Revolution not
lead to a better life for most Russian
people?
How did Stalin control Russia?
Recap Questions WALT to demonstrate an understanding of how Stalin became
Why did Lenin refuse to include all leader of the USSR and how he maintained his power
Socialist parties in the government?
What territories did Russia have to WILF
hand over in the Treaty of Brest- ALL will be able to explain how Stalin overcame opposition to
Litovsk?
become leader
What was the purpose of the
CHEKA? MOST will be able to explain the methods used by Stalin to
maintain his power
SOME will be able to assess the significance of Stalin’s actions
Recap Questions
Why did Lenin refuse to include all Socialist parties in the government?
• He wanted to maintain power and limit the influence of other parties
What territories did Russia have to hand over in the Treaty of Brest-
Litovsk?
• Russia lost Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and
parts of Armenia in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
What was the purpose of the CHEKA?
• To combat counter-revolution, sabotage, and speculation
Who should succeed Lenin; Trotsky or
Stalin?
Source 1 – Lenin’s Testament. This is often used as evidence that Stalin was an
outsider. However, the document contained many remarks critical of other leading
Communists as well. It was never published in Russia, although, if it had been, it
would certainly have damaged Stalin.
“Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary General, has unlimited authority in his
hands and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority
with sufficient caution.
Comrade Trotsky, on the other hand, is distinguished not only by his outstanding
ability. He is personally probably the most capable man in the present Central
Committee, but he has displayed excessive self-assurance and preoccupation with
the purely administrative side of the work.”
How useful is Source 2 to historians studying the succession of Lenin in 1924?
Who was Joseph Stalin and how did he gain
control of the USSR?
PITSTOP

Do you think the Russian people would now lead a better life under Stalin?

WALT to demonstrate an understanding of how Stalin became leader of the USSR and how he maintained his power
WILF
ALL will be able to explain how Stalin overcame opposition to become leader
MOST will be able to explain the methods used by Stalin to maintain his power
SOME will be able to assess the significance of Stalin’s actions
According to Source 2, what sort of people did Stalin want in the USSR?
What do you think happened to the factory director?

Source 2 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, published in 1973.


Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship as a result of this book.
A tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up… for three
minutes, four minutes, the ‘stormy applause, rising to an ovation’ continued… Who
would dare to be the first to stop? After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall
waiting to see who quit first! After 11 minutes the director [of the factory]…sat
down… To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!
…That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And
that was how they eliminated them. The same night the factory director was
arrested.
1. Summarise the messages of Sources 3 and 4
2. Do you think either of these cartoons could Source 4 – A cartoon published by Russian exiles in Paris in
have been published in the USSR? 1936. The title of the cartoon is ‘The Stalinist Constitution’
and the text at the bottom reads ‘new seating arrangements
Source 3 – Russian exiles in France made this mock travel in the Supreme Soviet’
poster in the late 1930s. The text says: ‘Visit the USSR’s
pyramids!’
PITSTOP

What impression do Sources 2-4 give about the methods of control used by
Stalin?

WALT to demonstrate an understanding of how Stalin became leader of the USSR and how he maintained his power
WILF
ALL will be able to explain how Stalin overcame opposition to become leader
MOST will be able to explain the methods used by Stalin to maintain his power
SOME will be able to assess the significance of Stalin’s actions
What was more important in securing Stalin’s
rule; the terror or propaganda?
Read the information on 2.5 How did Stalin Control Russia and answer
the following questions.
1. Give at least two examples of how Stalin used terror to assert his
control
2. Give at least two example of how used propaganda to assert his
control
3. Which method, do you think, was more important for Stalin
maintaining his control of the USSR? Think immediate, short-, and
long-term consequences
What was more important in securing Stalin’s
rule; the terror or propaganda?
Stalin’s use of terror/propaganda was more important in securing his
power. For example… This is important for securing Stalin’s rule
because… Therefore, Stalin’s use of terror/propaganda was more
important in securing his power.

Challenge – evaluate the opposing argument


Plenary
Let’s link our learning back to the Enquiry Question - Why did the
Russian Revolution not lead to a better life for most Russian people?

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