atsiskaitymas 2025-02-28

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.

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

Joseph Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union can be best characterized as a period of

• religious freedom and tolerance

• democratic reform and nationalism

• censorship and terror

• humanism and democracy

What is a totalitarian state?

• an economy with private ownership of businesses
• a state in which people have control over businesses
• a state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private lives
• a state in which the working class is glorified

During Josef Stalin’s rule, Russians only had access to select information. This is an example of

• A.  suffrage. 
• B. democracy. 
• C. fascism. 
• D. censorship.