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Joseph Stalin: Man of Steel

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What tsar was forced to abdicate and was eventually executed by the Bolsheviks?

a)

Rurik I

b)

Ivan II

c)

Alexander III

d)

Nicholas II

2.

What did the Bolshevik party eventually become?

a)

The Communist Party

b)

The Socialist Party

c)

The Capitalist Party

d)

The Totalitarian Party

3.

Who was the head of government for the Soviet Union before his death in 1924?

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Leo Trotsky

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Adolf Hitler

4.

Vladimir Lenin appointed a successor before his death.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Who was chosen as Lenin's successor?

a)

Leon Trotsky

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Friedrich Engels

d)

Joseph Stalin

6.

What does the name Stalin mean?

a)

Man of Gold

b)

Man of Steel

c)

Man of Power

d)

Man of the Year

7.

What was Stalin's first big change to Russian society?

a)

Abolishment of the Russian Orthodox Church

b)

Establishment of collectives

c)

Building a windmill

d)

The Great Terror

8.

What goal did Stalin focus on in the first five years of his regime?

a)

Winning WWII

b)

Gaining allies

c)

Large-Scale Industrialization

d)

Helping farmers

9.

Who are kulaks?

a)

Landowners

b)

Government Officials

c)

Soldiers

d)

The new Bolshevik party

10.

What does Stalin do when the Ukrainian kulaks refuse to give up their farm to the collectives?

a)

Leaves them be

b)

Starts a propaganda campaign against them

c)

Forcibly takes their land and supplies

11.

What does Stalin call his dissenters?

a)

Fools

b)

Naysayers

c)

Hopeless

d)

Enemies of the state

12.

Stalin was not personally involved in the 322 death lists and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What are gulags?

a)

Collectives

b)

Moscow jails

c)

Forced labor camps

d)

The secret police

14.

What is propaganda?

a)

Biased or misleading information

b)

The lower class in Russia

c)

A war crime

d)

The spread of truthful information

15.

What propaganda does Stalin use to revise his own history?

(Choose all that apply)

a)

Recorded speeches

b)

Government-controlled newspapers

c)

Historically inaccurate films

d)

A town crier