Joseph Stalin’s Totalitarian Rule

Base your answer to the following question on the graphic organizer below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which title best completes this graphic organizer?

• Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf War

• Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) and the Defeat of the Manchu Dynasty

• Joseph Stalin and the Rise of a Totalitarian State

• Jawaharlal Nehru and the Modern Industrial State of India

Totalitarian countries are characterized by

• free and open discussions of ideas

• a multiparty system with several candidates for each office

• government control of newspapers, radio and television

• government protection of people’s civil liberties

In addition to the artificial Ukrainian famine that killed the Kulak farmers and sent many to the soviet prison camps, called gulags, the main purpose of the purges and public trials of his fellow communists that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to

• force the Jewish people to leave the Soviet Union

• eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his communist government

• establish a free and independent court system in the Soviet Union

• reform the outdated and inadequate agricultural system

In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges. This type of government is called

• democracy

• totalitarian

• limited monarchy

• theocracy

Base your answers to the question on the following question on the table below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Between which two years did the number of collective farms increase the most?

• 1929 and 1930

• 1930 and 1931

• 1934 and 1935

• 1939 and 1940