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World History
Ms. Avar
Point Value:
/8
Joseph Stalin
1879-1953
(U.S.S.R.)
4 points video
4 points questions
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?
2) What is a
major goal of
Soviet
Communism?
Terror
What rules did
Stalin have to
follow to achieve
this for the
U.S.S.R?
World
domination
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
8) How did
Stalin use
propaganda to
create a “cult of
personality”?
9) What does
the government
ask private
citizens to do?
Replace him /
kill him
Controlled what
people read /
knew / believed
about him
Become private
informants
(snitch)
Richer peasants
What did Stalin
do to them when
they didn’t want
to turn over
their land?
6) Was there
enough food for
the nation under
Stalin’s
communism?
No
Deported to
Siberia /
Liquidated
(killed)
None
7) What did
Stalin do to the
head of his
secret police?
5) Who were the
“Kulacks”?
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”?
12) Why doesn’t
Stalin care about
the millions of
Russian soldiers
lost during
WWII?
40 million
”There were
always millions
more”
Next, answer the following questions using pages 442-445 in your textbook:
STALIN BUILDS A TOTALITARIAN STATE
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?