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STALIN: REVIEW SHEET
BACKGROUND:
1. How did the following impact the development of the Soviet Union?
 Size
 Ethnic Make-up
 Climate/Location
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION/CIVIL WAR:
 Terms:
 Joseph Djugashvili
 NEP vs Industrialization
1. What happened in the February Revolution?
2. What happened in the October Revolution?
3. What happened in the Russian Civil War?
4. Why was the US involved in the Russian Civil War
6. What were the death tolls from 1917-1924 in the Soviet Union (you don’t have to
know all of the exact figures, but you should understand the scale of deaths involved).
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STALIN’S CHILDHOOD/RISE TO POWER
o Terms:
 Lenin’s “Last Testament”
 General Secretary
 Vozhd
1. What was Stalin’s childhood like?
2. Compare Marxism, Leninism, & Stalinism
3. What was Stalin’s relationship with Lenin like? With Trotsky?
4. How did Stalin maneuver his way into a position of power?
5. How did Stalin use the Party to solidify his power
INDUSTRIALIZATION
 Terms:
 Five-year plan
1. What investments did Stalin make in order to try to industrialize the country?
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2. What were the three goals of the Five Year Plan?
3. Where did the main planning take place in a command economy?
4. What were some of the flaws with Command economy:
5. Why did the people work hard?
6. How far behind other countries did Stalin think the USSR was?
7. Looking at the overall population and industrial output statistics, how would you
evaluate the success/failure of industrialization?
8. What positive results came out of industrialization?
9. What negative results came out of industrialization?
COLLECTIVIZATION
 Terms
 Kulak (Bedniak/Serednik)
 Collective farm
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 Holodor
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According to Marxist/Leninists, how was collectivization supposed to happen?
2. How, in fact, did collectivization take place?
3. What were the results of collectivization?
4. What was dekulakization. Why was it carried out?
5. What were the main causes of the 1930-1933 famine?
6. You should be familiar with the experiences of the Ukrainian peasants during the
famine
THE GREAT TERROR/SHOW TRIALS
 Terms
 Kirov
 Show trial
1. What event triggered the Great Terror?
2. What were the show trials and why were they used?
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3. What groups were targeted in the Great Terror and why?
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WWII
 Terms
 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
 Order 227
1. How did Stalin prepare for war in the 1930s?
2. When Hitler invaded, was Stalin prepared?
3. How did the war progress for Stalin in the early part of the war?
4. How was Stalin as a military strategist?
5. What happened to soldiers who retreated in the Red Army?
6. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point of the war?
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7. What differences were there between the war on the Eastern Front and the war on the
Western Front?
SHORTAGES
Terms
o Blat/sviazy
o propiska
o hooligans
o Food and other supplies
o speculation
o rationing
o closed distribution
o Insnab
o kolkhoz market
o black market
o Torgsin
o Commercial stores
o Second economy
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1. What was communal living?
2. Describe what life was like living in a barrack?
3. Why were many facilities built for the whole population to use (baths, laundry,
dining halls, etc)?
4. Describe life in a communal apartment. (Remember the movie)
5. What were some of the stresses of living in a communal apartment?
6. What was the average living space for Soviets in the 1930s?
7. What was the official process to get an apartment?
8. What were some of the other methods of finding living space?
9. Who were the people who got the best apartments?
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10. Who was given highest priority for receiving scarce goods?
11. What were some of the problems for distributing goods?
12. What was the system of rationing that was set up?
13. What was the system of closed distribution that was set up?
14. What was the black market?
15. Describe the “second economy.” Why was it necessary?
PROPAGANDA
Techniques of Propaganda used by Bolsheviks
a. Agitation
b. Propaganda
c. Enlightenment
Heroes
d. Aviators
e. polar explorers
f. border guards
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g. labor heroes
h. Stakhanov
i. the Stakhanov Movement
j. Pavlik Morozov
1. What types of media did the Soviets use in order to spread their propaganda?
2. When did the Soviet state start to create heroes and why?
3. Who created the Cult of Lenin and why did he create it?
4. What were some of the different images that Stalin used in his Cult of Personality?
5. Why were aviators and polar explorers so popular?
6. Why was Pavlik Morozov? considered to be such a role model by the Soviet
government?
7. Who were some of the enemies or anti-heroes and why were they chosen?