Single Party State Leaders

In the assignment you are to focus on one of the provided single party state leaders to compare to the Ideal Types we have studied in the opening half of the 20^th Century. Create a “Fakebook” Page portraying your chosen Single Party State ruler. It should address the following seven points of origin, establishment, ideology, state form / regime, opposition, domestic and foreign policy. Part Two should be a chart comparing your leader to one of our three ideal types. Part Three will be the presentation of your SPS leader to the class and uploaded to the Wiki site.

Presentation of Single Party State Rulers -- Start

Create five minute presentation – Single Party “Fakebook” Page

Completed “Fakebook” due -- , posted to wiki site

1. Origins: What are the conditions which produce single party states?

How and why the particular single party state came into being? When?

Where within the state? Describe the regime it replaced?

2. Establishment: What is the organization, support structure, leadership?

Methods of obtaining power (coup, revolution, constitutional, elected)?

When was the party secure?

3. Ideology: Communism, fascism, Nazism (Hitlerism), socialism, pacifism, etc.

4. State Form / Regime: Leftist / Rightist structure, laws, form of government.

What is the exact nature of this form of government?

Totalitarianism or authoritarianism? What distinguishes that form?

5. Opposition: What methods are used by the state or regime to overcome opposition?

(i.e. police, terror, concentration camps, other)

Identify major opposition groups and organization.

6. Domestic Policy: What are the economic, social and religious controls, political alignments and plans?

7. Foreign Policy: Is the state expansionist, appeasing, belligerent or escapist – hiding discontent at home?