Question | Answer |
True or False. Russians demonstrated nationalism at the beginning of World War I; however, Russians were drained of their resources, failing on the battlefield, and in need of food at home by the end of the war. | TRUE |
Lenin | He believed that people should be socialist, then he would run the government |
Marx (western socialists) | Socialism could be achieved gradually through moderate reform |
Lenin (Russia) | Only revolution would bring change |
Bolsheviks | HE gave to peasants land, he gave the people control but really would become a master and take over with communism |
True or False. War communism during which Communists took over bank, factories, and railroad and forced peasants into the Red Army or factories was economically not successful. | TRUE |
Key points of NEP (new economic plan) | Government keeps control large industries, but small businesses allowed collecting profit |
Stalin's 5 year plan | Heavy industry and increased farm output |
Collectives | Large farms operated by groups of peasants |
Great Purge | Reign of terror in which secret police charged anti-communists and/ or those falling to meet quotas |
Totalitarian | One-Party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of lives of citizens |
Russians lives: terror | opened private letter, listening devices, nothing appears in print without official approval, critics sent to labor camps |
Russian lives: propaganda | Citizens heard/ read about communist successes and the evils of capitalism, posters, T.V., speakers in factories and collectives |
Russian lives: Atheism | Belief in no god(s), religious persecuted, buildings converted to offices, communism and its leaders became "sacred" |
Socialist Realism | Boost socialism by showing life in postivite way |