Joseph Stalin's Totalitarian Rule

Joseph Stalin gained, consolidated, and maintained power in Soviet Russia by:

• Implementing democratic reforms and promoting free speech

• Using political purges, and total control over the Communist Party

• Encouraging open market policies and foreign investments

• Fostering alliances with Western democracies

1. Who were the leading candidates for replacing Lenin as the head of the Soviet government?

• Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky

• Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev

• Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Brezhnev

The Holodomor was:

• a natural disaster that affected Ukraine in the 1930s.

• a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933.

• a war between Ukraine and Russia in the 1930s.

• a political movement in Ukraine during the 1930s.

Why did so many people die during the Holodomor?

• Due to a natural disaster

• Because of a government-imposed famine

• As a result of a war

• Due to a widespread disease

If you were accused of being “anti-Soviet” what could happen?

• You could be imprisoned or executed.

• You could receive a medal of honor.

• You could be promoted to a higher position.

• You could be sent on a vacation.

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 of the following is the name of the labour camps that Stalin would send "enemies of the state" to?

• Stakhanov

• Concentration camps

• Gulags

• Kulaks

What is Collectivisation?

• Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farms
• Stalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)
• Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industries
• Stalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants

Stalin killed many Communist Party members in what event?

• The Great Purge

• Terror Famine

• Kristallnacht

• Dust Bowl

 In a command economy, all of the economic decisions are made by

• The Central Government

• The United States

• The Commander-in-Chief

• The Economic Commander