Rise of Stalin

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.

A major goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans was to

• encourage communist revolutions in the colonies of the European powers

• transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power

• expand the Soviet Union’s borders to include warm-water ports

• reduce the amount of foreign aid coming from the Western Hemisphere

Which title best completes this graphic organizer?

• Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf War

• Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) and the Defeat of the Manchu Dynasty

• Joseph Stalin and the Rise of a Totalitarian State

• Jawaharlal Nehru and the Modern Industrial State of India

• Led the Russians in a second revolution (1917)

• Promised "Peace, Land, and Bread"

• Established the New Economic Policy (NEP)

4. Which leader is being described by these statements?

• Czar Nicholas II

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Vladimir I. Lenin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Which condition was a result of Joseph Stalin’s command economy?

• Peasants were encouraged to sell surplus grain for personal profit.

• The production of consumer goods increased.

• National revenue increased allowing for greater individual spending.

• The government controlled agriculture through collective farms.

The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to

• force the Jewish people to leave the Soviet Union

• eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his government

• establish a free and independent court system in the Soviet Union

• reform the outdated and inadequate agricultural system

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

Which Soviet policy is most closely associated with the information in this table?

• Lenin's New Economic Policy

• Brezhnev's policy of détente

• Stalin's Collective Farms

• Gorbachev's policy of glasnost

Between which two years did the number of collective farms increase the most?

• 1929 and 1930

• 1930 and 1931

• 1934 and 1935

• 1939 and 1940