4) Consolidation of Stalin's power: 'The Great Purge' and 'the Great Terror'
ESSAY WRITING
Choose from the following questions:
PAPER 2: Examine and evaluate the use of repression and terror in establishing and maintaining power in one authoritarian state. (a recommended case: Stalin's Soviet Union)
or:
PAPER 3: Examine and evaluate Stalin's use of terror during the 1930's in establishing and maintaining his regime in the USSR.
Deadline on Monday, 12 Sept at 20:00.
A RETURN FOLDER
PAPER 2: Examine and evaluate the use of repression and terror in establishing and maintaining power in one authoritarian state. (a recommended case: Stalin's Soviet Union)
or:
PAPER 3: Examine and evaluate Stalin's use of terror during the 1930's in establishing and maintaining his regime in the USSR.
Deadline on Monday, 12 Sept at 20:00.
A RETURN FOLDER
A return folder for the essay
Sinulla ei ole tarvittavia oikeuksia lähettää mitään.
How did the Great Purge (1936-39) help establish Stalin's power?
1.1.) Read pages 34 - 36 and assess the importance of the following to the beginning of the Great Purge:
a) Controversies in economic and social policy
b) Elimination of the 'Old Guard' Bolsheviks
c) Ideological controversies
d) Consolidation of the Soviet state
e) Purges within the 'new generation' of the Party
f) Stalin's personality
1.2.) Discuss about the perspectives of yours within the group. Introduce the reasons for the beginning of the Great Purge from the point of view based on your perspectives.
2) Compare the purges before Stalin's rise to power and during his rule.
3) Pages 36 - 38 > Study reasons, targets and results of the Great Terror (1937-38).
4) Create three groups > Analyze reasons for the 'Great Purge' and the 'Great Terror' by using the theories on pages 38 - 39.
5a) Define 'the cult of personality' by using your own words.
b) Give arguments for both of these statements:
* 'The 'cult of personality' was created for being a tool of consolidation of Stalin's power'
* 'The 'cult of personality' was a consequance of Stalin's role as a Soviet leader.'
a) Controversies in economic and social policy
b) Elimination of the 'Old Guard' Bolsheviks
c) Ideological controversies
d) Consolidation of the Soviet state
e) Purges within the 'new generation' of the Party
f) Stalin's personality
1.2.) Discuss about the perspectives of yours within the group. Introduce the reasons for the beginning of the Great Purge from the point of view based on your perspectives.
2) Compare the purges before Stalin's rise to power and during his rule.
3) Pages 36 - 38 > Study reasons, targets and results of the Great Terror (1937-38).
4) Create three groups > Analyze reasons for the 'Great Purge' and the 'Great Terror' by using the theories on pages 38 - 39.
5a) Define 'the cult of personality' by using your own words.
b) Give arguments for both of these statements:
* 'The 'cult of personality' was created for being a tool of consolidation of Stalin's power'
* 'The 'cult of personality' was a consequance of Stalin's role as a Soviet leader.'
Liitteet:
Key concepts
Sources
The Last Soviet Dreamer
by Jochen Sellback
Revelations from the Russian Archives
'Repression and terror' (Library of Congress)
Stalin - Inside the Terror
BBC Documentary (1:28)
