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Focus Question: How did Stalin transform the Soviet Union into a
totalitarian state?
As you read this section in your textbook, complete the chart below by identifying the main
ideas about the Soviet Union under Stalin for each heading.
CHAPTER 28.4 – THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN READING QUESTIONS
Directions:
Answer the questions in complete sentences, and in your own words, not the textbook
answers from the internet. Be specific in your answers (details, details, & details)!!!!! Please refrain from
starting your sentences with it, he, she, they or because…..it’s bad writing!!!
1.
Why did some peasants resist the collectivization plan?
2.
How did Stalin respond to this resistance?
3.
How did Stalin take control of the Soviet Union’s economic life?
4.
In what ways did Stalin’s terror tactics harm the Soviet Union?
5.
How did Stalin use censorship and propaganda to support his rule?
6.
How did Communist schools benefit the state and the Communist party?
7.
How did the Soviet Union’s foreign policy goals contradict one another?