IB Authoritarian States Aims and Results of Policies: Stalin

The collectivization of farms across the Ukraine and Kazakhstan resulted in a period of famine and internal decay that killed over 7 million people, with this period being called the:

• Great Leap Forward

• Time of Troubles

• Holodomor

• Nasdrovia

The massive drive across the Soviet Union aimed to develop industry and infrastructure through the construction of power plants, factories, dams, etc was paid for in which Russian commodity(ies)?

• oil

• grain and produce

• iron and steel

• gold

The stripping of property from prosperous peasants and farmers across the Soviet Union named Kulaks, though aimed at creating greater economic equality among the Soviet population, resulted instead in:

• degradation of soil quality

• civil war

• spread of deadly viral disease

• widespread starvation and famine

Soviet industry focused on the production and manufacture of heavy industrial products over the production of consumer goods, leading to low:

• economic growth

• consumption

• waste

• life expectancy

Low imports from foreign nations often led to a critical shortage of staples and consumer goods for which segment of the Soviet population?

• the military

• the common people

• the middle class

• the Soviet bureaucracy

The removal of political rivals already in positions of power was carried out through:

• Prosecution in a court of law under false or fabricated accusations

• Exile of rivals to foreign lands outside of the Soviet union

• Use of the military to round up and try rivals in military tribunals

• Systematically poisoning rivals during their meals

The political system of the Soviet Union eliminated the presence of any political parties other than that of the Communist Party, achieving which of the following aims?

• The development of a robust political system that represents all members of society.

• Elimination of centralized, organised resistance against Stalin.

• Ensuring the representation of all nationalities within the Soviet government .

• Decentralization of power away from Stalin and more towards smaller central governments.

Stalin’s establishment of a cult of personality surrounding himself gave him an air of divinity while also:

• Transferring money and power from the church to himself as the Soviet peoples’ spiritual protector

• Constructing a new legitimacy for Stalin as the successor of the Tsar

• Encouraging the private worship of Stalin as a God

• Discouraging potential rivals from organizing against him

Mass relocation of people groups such as the Volga Germans allowed for the suppression of which of the following threats?

• class based revolts

• religious revolts

• ethnic or nationalist revolts

• regional uprisings

The Komsomol had little direct influence on the Communist Party or on the government of the Soviet Union, but it played an important role as a mechanism for teaching the values of the communism to the younger generation.

• True

• False