1921-1991 🇷🇺 Communist Russia

Stalin’s Consolidation of Power

• carrot & stick approach

Propaganda (Cult of Personality)

• winning hearts and minds, indoctrinating the people ideologically
• creating the Homo Sovieticus – the perfect, Soviet human
• people worshipped Stalin and viewed him as a deity
• economic policy – Stalin brought the USSR glory, made people want to outwork each other
• “socialism in one country”

Instilling Fear & Paranoia

• creating a bully/police state, air of mistrust
• NKVD, Chistka, The Great Terror