Stalin: Totalitarian Rule

Which statement best describes the political

situation in the Soviet Union immediately after

Lenin's death in 1924?

• The nation adopted a constitutional

  monarchy

• Trotsky and his followers assumed full

  control of the Communist Party

• Popular elections were held to choose a

  new General Secretary

• A power struggle developed among

  Communist Party leaders

A major goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plan was to...

• encourage communist revolutions in the

  colonies of the European powers

• transform the Soviet Union into an

  industrial power

• expand the Soviet Union’s borders to

  include warm-water ports

• reduce the amount of foreign aid coming

  from the Western Hemisphere

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

-Collectivization

-Five-year plan

-Restrictions on the press

-Purges of Communist Party

Which title best completes these headlines?

• Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf

  War

• 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

Which condition was a result of Joseph Stalin’s

command economy?

• Peasants were encouraged to sell surplus

  grain for personal profit.

• The production of consumer goods

  increased

• National revenue increased allowing for

  greater individual spending

• The government controlled agriculture

  through collective farms

The main purpose of the many purges and public

trials 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 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• reform the outdated and inadequate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

• limited monarchy

• theocracy

• totalitarian

"Collective Farms of the USSR (Soviet Union) 1929-1940"

is associated with which of the following:

• Lenin's New Economic Policy

• Brezhnev's policy of détente

• Gorbachev's policy of glasnost

• Stalin's five-year plans

What was one reason that totalitarian dictatorships gained power in Europe between World War I and World War II?

• Famine and AIDS spread throughout Europe.

• Trade was banned between western and eastern Europe.

• Governments failed to meet the needs of the people.

• Monarchies were reinstated in many nations

A totalitarian society is one in which

• religious beliefs are supported by the government

• the state is considered a servant of the citizens

• the government controls most aspects of life

• citizens have say over the government