Totalitarianism

Gulags were

• Soviet forced labor camps for political prisoners

• traditional Soviet holiday meals

• lasted long after Stalin's death

• housed people important to Stalin

Use of media to persuade people to believe or do something is called...

• Police Terror

• Persecution

• Propaganda

• Censorship

• Indoctrination

The belief by a group of people that their country is better than any other country.

• Nationalism

• Hysteria

• Partisanship

• Patriotism

When Communists took over Russia, who became their first leader?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Tsar Nicholas II

Who took over control of the USSR after Lenin died?

• Joseph Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Czar Nicholas II

What is the term for the farms that are controlled by the communist government and farmers are not paid wages?

• Collective Farms

• Cooperative Farms

• Communist Farms

• Corrupt Farms

In which republic was a famine created called the "Holodomor" which starved and killed 7 million people?

• Ukraine

• Russia

• Estonia

• Belarus

Read the excerpt from Stalin's 1929 speech on collectivization (gathering of all farm land and resources under government control)

"The solution lies in enlarging the agricultural units...and in changing the agricultural base of our national economy....the Socialist way, which is to set up collective farms and state farms which leads to the joining together of the small peasant farms into large collective farms, technically and scientifically equipped, and to the squeezing out of the capitalist elements from agriculture… Now we are able to carry on a determined offensive against the kulaks, to break their resistance, to eliminate them as a class and substitute for their output the output of the collective farms and state farms."

According to Stalin, what group of people are standing in the way of Stalin's collectivization program?

• kulaks

• children

• factory workers

• communists

In which economic system are businesses privately owned?

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Atheism

(5 test points!) In your own words, explain what totalitarianism is, and list three examples of the methods used to control people's lives.