Totalitarianism: Stalinist Russia
Five-Year Plan
set impossibly high quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity
Stalin's campaign of terror designed to eliminate anyone who threatened who power was called
the Great Purge
A government that takes total, centralized control over all aspects of public and private life is an example of
totalitarianism
totalitarianism
a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
command economy
a system in which the government made all economic decisions
Industrial Policies
Five Year Plans -impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity -people faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, etc
Stalin's proposals for the development of the Soviet Union's economy were called
Five-Year Plans
Lenin's successor, who worked to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, was
Joseph Stalin
A group of officially-sponsored atheists who spread propaganda attacking religion was the
League of the Militant Godless
A system in which the government makes all economic decisions is called
a command economy
Art/Religion
-League of the Militant Godless -Russian Orthodox Church - target of persecution -art showed importance of work
Control Methods
-Police State-monitored phones, read mail, and planted informers everywhere -Great Purge
Propaganda Methods
-government controlled everything
Education
-learned virtues of Communist Party -importance of sacrifice and hard work
The agricultural revolution in the USSR combined privately-owned farms into large, government-owned farms called
collective farms
Agricultural Policies
collective farms-hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state
Totalitarian leaders used all of the following methods of control except
free elections
collective farm
hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state