Saturday, March 01, 2008

MWH3.1.10 Rise of Authoritarian Regimes

Topic: Rise of Authoritarian Regimes - Nazi Germany
Enquiry-question: Was the rise of Nazi dictatorship in Germany inevitable?

  • Review
    • Did Hitler bring more harm than good?
      • Economic self-sufficiency
      • Education control
      • Propaganda & Gestapo
      • Anti-Semitism
  • Performance:
    • SBQ Skills revision: Inference practise
    • SBQ Skills: Comparison
  • Assessment:
    • CA1 Diagnosis & Corrections
    • How similar are Sources A and B?
Source A
Every Bolshevik, every worker, every citizen of our Soviet land is clearly aware that if we had been able to defeat all these enemies of communism and all these contemptible anti-Bolshevik supporters, it was all because we are indebted to our great and glorious Stalin.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, a delegate to the Eighteenth Party Congress, 1939.

Source B
Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his viewpoint, and the correctness of his position, was doomed to removal from the collective and to subsequent moral and physical punishment.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, the new leader of Soviet Union, at the Twentieth Party Conference in 1956.