Totalitarianism: Stalinist Russia – Flashcards
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Industrial Policies
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Five Year Plans -impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity -people faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, etc
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Agricultural Policies
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collective farms-hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state
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Art/Religion
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-League of the Militant Godless -Russian Orthodox Church - target of persecution -art showed importance of work
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Education
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-learned virtues of Communist Party -importance of sacrifice and hard work
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Control Methods
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-Police State-monitored phones, read mail, and planted informers everywhere -Great Purge
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Propaganda Methods
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-government controlled everything
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totalitarianism
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a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
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command economy
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a system in which the government made all economic decisions
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collective farm
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hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state
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Five-Year Plan
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set impossibly high quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity
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Lenin's successor, who worked to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, was
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Joseph Stalin
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A government that takes total, centralized control over all aspects of public and private life is an example of
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totalitarianism
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Totalitarian leaders used all of the following methods of control except
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free elections
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Stalin's campaign of terror designed to eliminate anyone who threatened who power was called
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the Great Purge
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A group of officially-sponsored atheists who spread propaganda attacking religion was the
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League of the Militant Godless
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A system in which the government makes all economic decisions is called
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a command economy
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Stalin's proposals for the development of the Soviet Union's economy were called
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Five-Year Plans
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The agricultural revolution in the USSR combined privately-owned farms into large, government-owned farms called
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collective farms
