Totalitarianism, Case Study: Stalinist Russia (pages 876-879)

Classwork sheet answers. Determining Main Ideas.
A. Fill in the web diagram with the key characteristics of Stalinist Russia.
1. Industrial policies: Five-Years Plan, to promote industrial growth. Limited the production of consumer goods.
2. Agricultural policies: Established collective farms, eliminated the wealthy peasants (Kulaks)
3. Art/Religion: Controlled media; censored all forms of creativity. Replaced religious teaching with Communist ideals, Russian Orthodox Church main target of persecution.
4. Education: Expanded and control education at all levels, opened educational opportunities to women.
5. Control Methods: used secret polices and violent tacticts to crush opposition. He launched the Great Purge.
6. Propaganda methods: used indoctrination and art to glorify the Communist state. Created state supported young groups to train future leaders.
B. Clarifying. Define or identify each of the following terms:
- Totalitarianism:  government that takes control of all aspect of public and private life of their citizens.
- Command economy: system in which the government made all economic decisions.
- Collective farms:
- Five-Years plan: set impossible high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil and electricity. Government limited production of consumer goods.