Assess the significance of Stalin for the Russian people 1917-1941

Assess the significance of Stalin for the Russian people 1917-1941

1. Width of impact

   • How many people, groups or institution were affected?
     • 40,000 churches and 25,000 mosque shutdown
     • Atheist group-5.5 million
     • 94% in towns can read and write
   • Which different types of people we're affect?
     • Family
       • Weaken families
         • Wedding rings were abolished
         • Abortion available
           • 154,000 for every 57,000 live births
       • Divorce and marriages
     • Religion
       • Worship Stalin
       • Bells and religious clothing were removed
       • Leaders were arrested
     • Education
       • Strict rules
     • Culture and censorship
   • Were different parts of the country affected in the same way?

2. Depth of impact

   • How deeply were people's lives, beliefs and attitudes affected?
     • Dull environment, restricted rights
     • Religious beliefs were distrupted
   • For how long were people affected? How important was it to people
     • From the rise of communism but took effect when Stalin was in charge
   • How powerful was the impact? What kind of reaction was caused?
     • Changed people's life's
       • Appalling human cost, secret police, wages fell + few consumers
     • 5 yr plan impact
       • Poorly organised-inefficiency, duplication of effort and waste
     • Collectivisation
     • Purges
       • Examples of purges
       • Great terror
   • How far was it remarked on by people at the time?
     • The states on the food production caused starvation

3. Nature of impact

   • Was the effect beneficial, unique, expected and ionic?
     • postive or negative to the people?
     • the cult of stalin
       • Stlins reputation
       • propergander newspapers
     • the state of the NEP economy
       • Stalins motive in launching rapid economic change
   • Consider change and continuity
     • churches
     • industrial workers
       • slave workers
     • purges and the terror
       • stalins involvment
     • nature of the groups
     • changes from 1917-1941
     • industrilsations
       • graphs
   • Whether there was a long term effect or not?
     • Stalins reputation
       • the impact of Stalinism on ideology, culture and society
     • siginfcance before he was in power
       • how he rose to power
     • the effect on that child giving the flower to him

4. Introduction and conclusion

   • Background of Stalin and his rise to power
   • Give you opinion of Stalin with backed up eivdence