Totalitarianism and Stalin

The first communist dictator of Russia was...

• Karl Marx

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Alexander Kerensky

Lenin introduced the new Economic Policy in order to...

• speed up the establishment of socialism in Russia.

• strengthen the economy after the Russian Civil War.

• pay for the civil war.

• prove that capitalism would not work in Russia.

Stalin played a very important role in the November (Bolshevik) Revolution.

• He was instrumental in the planning and execution of the coup and overthrow that overthrew the Provisional Government.

• He organized and led the Red Army against the White Army during the Russian Civil War.

• He worked tirelessly to distribute land to the peasants.

• Stalin did NOT play an important role in the November Revolution.

During the 1930's, the government nationalized peasant farmland and grouped the land into large community farms. This new government policy was known as...

• five-year planning.

• collectivization.

• the New Economic Policy.

• purging.

The main reason for peasants' resistance to Stalin's policy of collectivization was...

• their desire to keep their own land.

• their hope to modernize farming techniques.

• their desire to work collaboratively on collective farms.

• the peasants never resisted collectivization.

Stalin's agricultural revolution had all of the following results EXCEPT...

• the peasants finally owned their own land.

• farming became mechanized.

• the peasants lost their struggle against collectivization.

• millions of peasants died as a result of famine.

In order to develop the Soviet Union into an industrialized nation that could compete with countries like the United States, Stalin developed Five Year Plans. The purpose of the Five Year Plans was to...

• promote loyalty among the Soviet citizens.

• support Lenin's New Economic Policy.

• promote rapid industrial growth and strengthen national defense.

• purge the Communist Party.

Stalin's way of dealing with the older generation of Bolsheviks who might threaten his power was by...

• false arrest and trial.

• sending these people to labor camps or into exile.

• execution.

• All of these were tactics used by Stalin to get rid of anyone who threatened his power in the Communist Party.

The Gulag was a network of...

• labor activists.

• revolutionaries.

• prison or labor camps.

• worker-owned factories.

In the command economy of Stalinist Russia...

• workers set their own hours.

• the government alone made all economic decisions.

• millions of peasants returned to private farming.

• labor unions were created to improve working conditions.