Economic Policies
This Soviet economic system introduced under Joseph Stalin aimed to rapidly industrialize the country through centralized government planning.
What are Five-Year Plans?
This was the name of the ruling political party of the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule.
What is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
This economic system calls for collective ownership of the means of production and a classless society?
What is communism?
He ran the country, ran the party, ran the secret police, and ran the propaganda. Busy guy.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This agricultural policy forced peasants to give up private farms and join large state-run farms.
What is collectivization?
After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, this leader eventually consolidated power over the Soviet Union.
Who is Joesph Stalin?
This thinker develop the communist theory.
Who was Karl Marx?
Stalin was actally born in this country, not Russia.
What is Georgia?
These large farms created during collectivization were directly owned and run by the Soviet state.
What are state farms?
This campaign of political repression from 1936-1938 involved arrests, show trials, and executions of perceived enemies.
What is the Great Purge?
This idea states that history is a never-ending fight between workers and the wealthy elite.
What is class struggle?
This massive network of labor camps where prisoners mined, logged, and tried their hardest not to freeze their toes off.
What is the Gulag?
This was the result of the collectivization of the Soviet Union which caused millions of deaths in the early 1930s in which many Soviet civilians did not know of.
What was the famine in Ukraine (Holodomor)?
This secret police organization carried out many arrests and purges under Stalin in the 1930s.
What is the NKVD?
In communist theory, factories, land, and industry aren't owned by individuals, they're owned by everyone.
What is collective ownership of the means of production?
Stalin loved editing photos so former allies who were purged mysteriously vanished into thin air.
What is propaganda editing?
If this factor was not met factory owners would be sent to the gulags.
What are quotas?
Stalin's famous speech where he stated, "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us."
What was the Modernize or Perish speech?
Workers and soldiers in Russia organized themselves into these local councils during the 1917 revolution. Later, the entire country would be named after them.
What are Soviets?
Before becoming leader, Stalin held a seemingly boring party job; which turned out to give him control over thousands of political appointments.
What is General Secretary of the Communist Party?