Russia Power struggle and Stalin's rise

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

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

• Propaganda
• Censorship
• Gulag
• Duma

What was the name of Stalin's secret police?

• Cheka- NKVD

• Cheka- NPCC

• Chevka-NTSS

• Chevka-NTRC

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 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

What is the proletariat?

• the upper class of society
• the middle class of society
• the workers
• the professional class of workers

What was the goal of communism, according to Marx?

• the oppression of the working class

• a more equal and fair society

• making everybody rich

• making everybody poor

When Russia became a communist nation it changed its name to...

• Marxism
• Bolshevik Nation
• The Soviet Union 

In 1917, Russia was ruled by...

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Tsar Nicholas II

• Trotsky