Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930S

Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s

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Andrus AP European History Ch 27 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 925-934

1. What is corporatism?

2. How many corporations were formed from the syndicates?

3. Why was this system never fully put to the test?

4. How was rapid Soviet industrialization similar to past times of advance in Russian history?

5. How did Stalin’s 5-year plans help usher in “Socialism in One Country”?

6. Though Gosplan did achieve rapid mass industrialization, what were some of its failings?

7. Why did Stalin decide to collectivize agriculture?

8. How did Stalin expand the definition of ‘kulaks’?

9. What was the human cost of collectivization and the undeclared war on the kulaks?

Read “Stalin Calls for the Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class”

10. What were the goals of the collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union?

11. How did the kulaks stand in the way?

12. Why did Stalin also attack religious officials?

13. How did rapid urbanization cause difficulties for the Soviet economy? What was the blat?

14. In what ways was Soviet Communism worse than anything Marx and Engels had denounced under earlier industrial capitalism? (this may require you to analyze and think)

15. Why and how did Stalin reverse the Comintern policy?

16. Why did Stalin engage in the Great Purges of 1933 and onward?

17. What did Stalin gain in this process?

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts." ~Benito Mussolini

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
~Benito Mussolini

“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
~Joseph Stalin

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
~Joseph Stalin

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.”
~Adolf Hitler

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
~Adolf Hitler