Key Terms
The Build up to Totalitarianism
Stalin Seized Control of the Economy
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What is Totalitarianism? 

A form of government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life

100

What was it called at this time where they created secret police and used armored vehicles to prevent riots? 

Police State 

100

What did Stalin create for the development of the Soviet Unions? 

Five Year Plan

200

What is the Great Purge? 

 A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power

200

What was it called where they controlled all the media; newspaper, radio, motion pictures, etc? 

Russian Propaganda and Censorship

200
What were people short of during this Five Year Plan? 

housing, food, clothing. 

300

Command Economy? 

Stalin’s plans called for this, a system in which the government made all economic decisions.

300

What were students forced to learned in school? 

Values of the communist party

300

What did the production of steel increase by dong this Five-Year Plan? 

25 percent

400

What is the Five-Year Plan? 

Set impossibly high quotas (numerical goals) to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity

400

What did people use propaganda for?  

To control people's opinions on him to gain influence



400

What revolution allowed men and women to have equal rights? 

The Bolshevik Revolution

500

Who thought he was an symbol of Russia? 

Joseph Stalin

500

What was type of church was mainly target during the Religious Persecution? 

Russian Orthodox church

500

What career did most women decide to pursue at this time? 

To be doctors

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