Stalin

In 1928, Joseph Stalin introduced the first Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union. Under the Five Year Plans, the government set specific goals for industrial and agricultural production. Why did Stalin implement these programs?

• Stalin thought workers would become wealthier.

• Stalin wanted to increase workers' creativity.

• Stalin wanted consumers to have more choices.

• Stalin hoped to improve the Soviet economy.

What did Joseph Stalin hope to accomplish during the Great Purge of the 1930s?

• He wanted to get rid of all political opponents.

• He wanted to defeat the Nazis in Germany.

• He wanted to end hunger within the Soviet Union.

• He wanted to defend the Soviet Union from foreign invasions.

During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks took control of the Russian government. What was one of the results of the Bolsheviks' rise to power?

• Czar Nicholas II was reinstated as the ruler of Russia.

• A democratic form of government was established.

• Citizens were given more political rights.

• Private ownership of property was no longer allowed.

How was the Ukraine affected by Stalin's collectivization of agriculture?

• It was the only Soviet Socialist Republic to not take part in collectivization.

• Its population faced massive starvation which resulted in millions of deaths.

• It was the largest producer of all grain products collected by the U.S.S.R.

• Its peasant population was forced to relocate to the uninhabitable areas of Siberia.

In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges. This type of government is called

• democracy

• totalitarian

• limited monarchy

• theocracy

This became the name of the communist under the leadership of Lenin

• Bolsheviks

• Mensheviks

• Czars

• Provisionals

He was a holy man with alleged healing powers. He became close to the royal family because they believed that he could save their sick son (and heir to the Russian Empire).

• Nicholas II

• Vladimir Lenin

• Grigori Rasputin

• Leon Trotsky

These were political organizations and governmental bodies that came about in the late Russian Empire. They were formed by socialists groups. One of its early leaders was Leon Trotsky.

• the Soviets

• the Duma

• the Tsarists

• the Whites

What was Lenin’s slogan to win over the people?

• Peace, Land, Bread

• Peace, Power, Reform

• No Taxation Without Representation

• He Kept Us Out of the War

Who seized control of the Russian government in October, 1917?

• Rasputin

• the Bolsheviks

• the Mensheviks

• the Germans