Totalitarianism

centralized control by an autocratic authority

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Vladimir Lenin

Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR.

Lenin was the proletariat, the dictatorship of the proletariat refers to a socialist state in which the proletariat or working class has control of the political power.

Lenins New Economic Policy was masterfully designed to bring capital into the state, which it did, and to help it prosper economically.

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Stalin

The Great Purge was a series of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Stalin.

Stalin’s willingness to use brutality to achieve political aims was well established by the time he took power; nevertheless, the Soviet Union was unprepared for the extreme violence and oppression that Stalin unleashed in 1928. This first year of his five year plan, a radical attempt to bring the Soviet Union into the industrial age.

collectivization is the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism.

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was Lenin’s helper, he was like his sidekick.

When Lenin died, Trotsky became involved in a rivalry for power with Joseph Stalin and Stalin managed to get Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party and then exiled from country. Trotsky went from Russia to Turkey to France to Norway and finally to Mexico where he was killed.

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Mao Zedong

Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic in China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

After the Nationalist defeat, the Communists, lead by Mao Zedong took over China

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Mao continued

Between 1966 and 1976, the young people of China rose up in an effort to purge the nation of the “Four Olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas.

The Great Leap Forward planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that both had to grow to allow the other to grow.

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Hitler

In prison, Hitler became moody and depressed. He put all his energy into his book “Mein Kampf”(My Struggle). This book explained his plans for German’s future. years later hitler explained to officers that he would of never written it if he weren’t sent to prison.

On February 27th the Reichstag is empty as it had been in recess since December. A little later one of the caretakers checked the building to find nothing unusual. 30 minutes later a postman passes the entrance and doesn’t see anything. 15 minutes later a student sees a man carrying a burning brand on the first floor. 10 minutes later the fire alarm goes off and firemen are in the building another 10 minutes later. 3 minutes later a huge explosion and the great chamber is enveloped in flames. In the back of the building a half naked dutchmen Marinus Van der Lubbe is found and arrested even though he claims that it was for a protest.

The SS was the standard bearer of Nazism as such, it was responsible for implementing the racial policies if the third reich, policies that sanctioned the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Mussolini

Mussolini was elected and brought fascism in, he wanted to bring the old way of Rome back Fascism is extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.

Mussolini has to make a good relationship with the Roman Catholic church simply because, regardless of his dictatorship, the Catholic Church was such a powerful institution in Italy,

Blackshirts were the military fascists who followed Mussolini during World War 2

Mussolini called himself Duce which means leader or duke.

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