Global Studies II

Name:Adam Lloyd

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Unit II Russia

Date ____________

Totalitarianism under Stalin

1. Define the term totalitarianism
The Term Totalitarianism is a term that describes a government that takes centralized
control of the public and private life

2. While reading the excerpt, create a list of methods of control used by Soviet leaders
and examples
Methods

Examples

-Police Terror

-Police enforce the laws of the central

-Indoctrination

government. Which means that they will

-Propaganda

spy on the citizens and if needed murder

-Religious Ethnic Persecution

the citizens to achieve a goal.

-Controlling the peoples minds to mold
them to the standards and glories of the
government
-Spread ads and posters to object the
views of the government
-Easily identified groups of religious
peoples that are often persecuted
because of religious or ethnic practices

Of all the methods of control, which allows the MOST long-term control?
The schooling because the people get learned by other people whom have to teach the
ways that the government demands.
3. Stalins methods of control.
a. What was the Great Purge? How would Stalins use of this action increase his
power? The great purge was a campaign launched by the Joseph Stalin when he turned
against the communist party. He launched this campaign of terror which killed anyone who

threatened his power or authority. This would increase his power because anyone who
threatened it would be murdered.

b. What was Pravda? How did Stalin explain the purpose of art in the USSR?
The Pravda was a communist newspaper which explained the purpose of art.

c. What is an atheism? How did Stalin use atheism to influence his control over his
citizens? Atheists are a group of people who believe that there is no god figure who
controls the earth.

4. Stalins control over the economy.

a. What is a command economy? A system in which the government makes all
economically involved decisions
b. Stalins Five Year Plans
1. Purpose To increase the output of coal, steel, oil, and electricity

2. Results? There were shortages of alot of consumer goods like housing and
clothing and food, however the economy boosted.

c. What methods did Stalin use to bring agriculture under state control?
The government took the farms over and made them governmentally controlled and they
were called collective farms

d. Kulaks - Who were they?

They were a group of people that resisted Collectivization.

1. How did they create a problem for Stalin?
They threatened his policies

2. How did he solve the problem?

He liquidated them and the state took control of the kulak land.