Ch 30.2
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What is totalitarianism?
What were some of the characteristics of
Stalin’s totalitarian regime?
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46b - determine the causes and results of the
Russian Revolution from the rise of the
Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five
Year Plan
46f - describe the nature of totalitarianism and
the police state that existed in Russia,
Germany, and Italy and how they differ from
authoritarian governments
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What was the name of the dynasty of the last
Czar?
Define proletariat. What did Karl Marx predict
they would do?
Who were the Bolsheviks? Who was their
leader?
What was Nicholas II made to do as a result of
the March Revolution?
What group ends up taking over Russia? What
is the new name?
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A government that takes total, centralized,
state control over every aspect of public and
private life
Police terror
 Indoctrination
 Propaganda and censorship
 Religious or ethnic persecution
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Lenin’s successor
Leader of Communist Party – one party rule
Great Purge
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Terror campaign aimed at anyone opposed to the
communist party – 8 – 13 million dead
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Command Economy
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Government makes all decisions
Five-Year Plans
Set impossible economic goals
 Rapid industrialization
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 Increase of Steal, coal, oil, electricity but limited
production of consumer goods (housing clothes, food)
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Collective Farms
 Combined privately owned individual farms into large
government owned farms
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What is totalitarianism?
What methods of control used by totalitarian
regimes?
How many political parties were in Soviet
Russia?
What is a command economy?
What was Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?