Lenin vs Stalin Review

Lenin vs Stalin Review

Ms. Okafor

Multiple Choice

The government’s aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

• Monarchy

Totalitarianism

A totalitarian state is characterized by the government's aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.

These regimes wanted to conquer the minds and hearts of their subjects.

They achieved this goal through mass propaganda techniques and modern communications.

Totalitarian

• The totalitarian states were further characterized by the leadership of a single leader and party.

• They rejected the ideal of limited government power and the guarantee of individual freedoms.

• Instead, individual freedom was subordinated to the collective will of the masses as determined by the leader.

Multiple Choice

This person developed the New Economic Policy (NEP) to encourage higher production by the peasants.

• Woodrow Wilson

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Vladimir Lenin

New Economic Policy

• Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) first allowed some degree of free enterprise to encourage higher production by the peasants.

• Small businesses could be privately owned and operated.

• Heavy industry, banking, and mines, however, remained in the hands of the government.

• During this time women also gained equal rights and pay.

Multiple Choice

This person purged the moderate wing of the party and launched a campaign to build the Soviet Union into a great power.

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Adolf Hitler

• Mussolini

Joseph Stalin

• To continue Lenin's revolutionary spirit, Stalin had several new policies that he deployed around the Soviet Union. 

• His first step was to purge the moderate wing of the party.

• Stalin then launched a campaign to build the Soviet Union into a great power. 

Multiple Choice

This program was to build the Soviet Union into a great power.

• New Economic Policy (NEP)

• The New Deal

• The Five-Year Plan

• Great Leap Forward

Five-Year Plans

• Stalin’s lunched a series of Five-Year Plans to industrialize and grow the economy of the Soviet Union.

• During this period oil, coal, and steel production increased 400%.

• Stalin also established a massive system of public schools and universities.

• To achieve his dream, Stalin used slave labor by taking millions of peasants and others whom he saw as threats, using them to his projects.

Collectivization

• Collectivization is to produce enough food to support an urbanized industrial society.

• Stalin used this principle to gather the farms into giant state-run operations.

Soviet Union Propaganda

The Great Purge

• Stalin was an extremely paranoid man.

• Stalin strengthened his control over the party.

• Those who resisted were sent into forced labor camps known as gulags.

• During the Great Purge, Stalin expelled army officers, diplomats, union officials, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.