Inside a Totalitarian State

What is perhaps the most conspicuous trait of total revolution that virtually every totalitarian ruler has been identified with?

• Huge infrastructure projects

• The cult of personality

• Wars of aggressions

• None of the above

What is the political role of ideology in a totalitarian system?

• Reinterpreting the past

• Explaining the present

• Foretelling the future

• All the above

What term refers to the elimination of all assumed, imagined, or real political rivals within the party that are a threat to the leader through mass arrest, assassinations, public trials, executions, exile, etc?

• Partiinost

• State-terrorism

• State-sponsored terrorism

• Purges

Totalitarianism is the absolute control of a government over every aspect of its citizens’ lives.

• True 
• False

Removing parts of books, news, or other media that are considered inappropriate or harmful is called...

• censorship

• propaganda

• Nazism

• mercantilism

________________________ is the spreading of information or ideas to influence the attitude of a nation or group.

• censorship

• propaganda

• secret police

• socialism

Who took over Russia after the death of Vladimir Lenin?

• Solzhenitsyn
• Tojo
• Stalin
• Trotsky

What did  Stalin call his programs to increase production in the Soviet Union?

• 5 Year Plans
• The Great Leap Forward
• The Khmer Rouge
• The Great Society

What was it called when small farms were joined together to form huge farms that everyone worked on?

• commonization
• collectivization
• command farming
• big agriculture

Totalitarianism is....

• a government which has one absolute leader
• a government which is based on the power of the citizens
• a government which has three strong leaders
• a government which holds free and fair elections