Stalin's Russia

A system of government that exerts complete control over its citizens; individuals have no rights and all opposition to the government is suppressed

• Monarchy
• Totalitarianism
• Democracy
• Communism

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

What was the name of the work camps in Siberia where Stalin would send "enemies of the state"?

• Gulags
• Concentration Camps
• Internment Camps
• Veritags

The use of print or images to convey a particular message, idea, or value.

• Propaganda
• Censorship
• Gulag
• Duma

Starting in 1932, which area saw a horrendous famine that may have killed as many as 7 million people?

• Ukraine

• Mongolia

• Estonia

• Latvia

What is Collectivisation?

• Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farms
• Stalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)
• Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industries
• Stalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants

What was the name of Stalin's secret police?

• Cheka- NKVD

• Cheka- NPCC

• Chevka-NTSS

• Chevka-NTRC

The famine in Ukraine during the 1930s resulted from the Soviet government’s attempt to ...

• End a civil war

• implement free-market practices

• collectivize agriculture

• introduce crop rotation

What does the USSR stand for?

• Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
• United Soviet Socialists Republic
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• Union of Soviets Socialists Republics

Which kind of industry was the most important to Stalin?

• Heavy industry
• Military industry
• Consumer goods industry
• Naval industry