A & E Biography: Joseph Stalin
Name__________________________________________
Use each choice in the word bank only once.
propaganda
purged
terror
collectivized
exiled
Communist
Man of Steel
Czar Nicholas II
Stalin
Gulag
Bolshevism
Hitler
Yakov
25 million
Yalta
Krushchev
Lenin
Civil War
Trotsky
_________________________1. Ruler of Russia before the Revolution.
_________________________2. The movement that Lenin led and promoted
_________________________3. The bloodiest phase of the revolution
_________________________4. The name Stalin means _________________________.
_________________________5. Given the title Commissar of Nationalities
_________________________6. The Bolsheviks turned Russia into a __________________ state.
_________________________7. This Communist leader had a stroke and died of suffocation
_________________________8. In 1927, Stalin had Trotsky _______________________.
_________________________9. Stalin __________________________ farming creating widespread famine.
_________________________10. People against Stalin were sent to these prison labor camps
_________________________11. Used by Stalin to gain the people’s support and improve his image.
_________________________12. Stalin ____________ the educated intellectuals, members of the military
and government.
_________________________13. He died after being stabbed with an ice pick.
_________________________14. Used by Stalin to maintain rule over the Soviet Union.
_________________________15. Signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin and later broke it.
_________________________16. Stalin’s son who was shot after Stalin claimed he had no son by that name.
_________________________17. The number of Soviets who died during World War II.
_________________________18. The conference where Allied forces met to discuss the post-war world.
_________________________19. The Communist leader who succeeded Stalin.