17.7

Stalin's 'five-year plans' were aimed at

• raising the standard of living of the peasantry.

• confiscating the land of wealthy factory owners.

• building heavy industry and improving transportation.

• allowing limited capitalism to help the economy grow.

Why did Communists target the Russian Orthodox Church?

• because Church officials had become corrupt and abused their power

• because Stalin was a Roman Catholic

• because Stalin felt the Church promoted fascist beliefs

• because people's loyalties lay with the Church rather than the state

What policy did Stalin follow to bring agriculture under state control?

• Russification

• the Comintern

• forced collectivization

• the Great Purge

Stalin used the Great Purge and "show trials" to eliminate

• Kulaks who resisted collectivization.

• anyone he saw as a threat to his power.

• the secret police who competed for control.

• anyone who took part in the Bolshevik Revolution.

An economic system in which government makes all decisions.

• mixed economy

• command economy

• capitalism

• laissez faire economics