Ms. Avar
Point Value:
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4 points video
4 points questions / / Joseph Stalin
1879-1953
(U.S.S.R.) / KEY
Instructions: Use the video and notes from Ms. Avar to complete the information below.
(If you were absent, make an appointment to see the sample binder or visit our class webpage).
1) Stalin translated the ideas of Lenin into a state of what in the Soviet Union?Terror / 2) What is a major goal of Soviet Communism?
World domination
What rules did Stalin have to follow to achieve this for the U.S.S.R?
None
/ 3) Where are all the peasants taken to work to build the Soviet economy?
Giant Soviet mechanized “Collective farms” / 4) What was Stalin’s plan called to industrialize Russia quickly “at all costs”?
Five-Year Plan / 5) Who were the “Kulacks”?
Richer peasants
What did Stalin do to them when they didn’t want to turn over their land?
Deported to Siberia / Liquidated (killed) / 6)Was there enough food for the nation under Stalin’s communism?
No
7) What did Stalin do to the head of his
secret police?
Replace him / kill him / 8) How did Stalin use propaganda to create a “cult of personality”?
Controlled what people read / knew / believed about him / 9) What does the government ask private citizens to do?
Become private informants (snitch) / 10) What is a “Gulag”?
Place in Siberia where people were forced into slave labor until they die / 11) How many people does Stalin have eliminated during his “terror”?
40 million / 12) Why doesn’t Stalin care about the millions of Russian soldiers lost during WWII?
”There were always millions more”
Next, answer the following questions using pages 442-445 in your textbook:
STALIN BUILDS A TOTALITARIANSTATE
Police State
1) Explain Stalin’s Police State. What are some things they did to maintain Stalin’s power?
2) What were children supposed to do if they heard disloyal remarks at home? What happened to their family members?
3) What was the Great Purge?
4) Who stood trial during the Great Purge and what happened to them?
STALIN BUILDS A TOTALITARIAN STATE cont…
5) How many people do historians estimate died during Stalin’s Great Purge?
Russian Propaganda
6) What happened with Russian Propaganda and Censorship under Stalin?
Education and Indoctrination
“Indoctrination” means the instruction in the government’s beliefs… used to mold people’s minds
7) What did schoolchildren learn under Stalin’s rule?
8) What happened to teachers and students who questioned the Communist Party’s interpretations of history or science?
Religious Persecution
9) What did Communists replace religious teachings with? What did propaganda spread under Stalin?
10) What did police destroy under Stalin?
11) What did Stalin’s total control of society eliminate in favor of the power of the state?
STALIN SEIZES CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY
12) What is a command economy?
An Industrial Revolution
13) What were the Five-Year Plans? Were they successful?
14) How did the government reach these targets? What was the result?
An Agricultural Revolution
15) What happened in 1928 in the USSR? What were “collective farms”?
16) Who were kulaks, and what happened to them? Why?
17) How did peasants fight the government’s attempt to take their land? What happened to them as a result?