Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union

What was the fate of Czar Nicholas II?

• The White Army won the Civil War and restored him as the leader.

• He and his family were executed.

• He was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.

• Nicholas was able to flee to Germany.

Answer explanation

The Bolsheviks made sure to kill the Czar and his family so that they could never come back to power

The Russian Revolution was a major turning point because

• Russia ceased to be an important force in world affairs

• it was the last revolution of the 20th century

• Russia became the first nation with a communist system

• the royal family was exiled to Mexico

Answer explanation

Russia became the USSR under a communist government.

This group led the Russian Revolution.

• Anarchists

• Bolsheviks

• Fascists

• Jacobins.

Answer explanation

The Bolsheviks were Lenin's communist party in 1917.

Joseph Stalin’s policies in Ukraine during the 1930s directly resulted in

• widespread starvation

• agricultural self-sufficiency

• the development of cottage industries

• the use of subsistence farming techniques

Answer explanation

The Holodomor was a forced famine-genocide that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

Enemies of Stalin were sent to distant prisons called....

• dachas

• gulags

• kulaks

• concentration camps

Answer explanation

Russian Prison / Work camps were known as Gulags

Which aspect of the economy was emphasized in Joseph Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?

• heavy industry

• consumer goods

• famine relief

• private landownership

Answer explanation

The five-year plans were a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.

Why did Stalin refuse to feed the Ukrainian's as they were starving to death?

• They had plenty of food and there was no need

• He wanted all of the Ukrainian people to die

• Ukrainians refused help

• Stalin wanted the food for workers in cities and to sell

Answer explanation

Stalin was obsessed with industrialization, so he needed all the food sent for the factory workers in the city. Even if it led to starvation...

Censorship, a one-party dictatorship, and the replacement of religious ideals with those of the state are all characteristics of a

• democratic government

• limited monarchy

• totalitarian system

• parliamentary system

Answer explanation

A totalitarian is a dictator, like Stalin.

Label these as fascist, communist or applying to both

Groups:

(a) Characteristics of Fascism

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(b) Characteristics of Communism

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(c) Characteristics of both

• loyalty based on class

• loyalty based on race / nation

• One-party rule

• total economic equality

• censorship

• Extreme Nationalism

Put the following events in Russian History in Order

• Czar Nicholas II takes power in Russia

• There is a massive famine in Ukraine

• Russia has a Communist Revolution led by the Bolsheviks during WWI

• Russia is humiliated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War (1905)

• Lenin Dies, Stalin takes power