Chapter 30.2 Terms

11. Kulaks Pg. 878

Class of wealthy peasants.

3. Propaganda Pg. 876

Biased or incomplete information used to sway people to accept certain beliefs or actions.

4. Great Purge Pg. 876

Campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power.

12. Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Pg. 878 - 879

Declared men and women equal

1. Totalitarianism Pg. 874

Describes a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life.

5. Pravada Pg. 876 - 877

Explained the purpose of art

2. Indoctrination Pg. 874 -875

Instruction in the government's beliefs - to mold people's minds.

10. Collective Farms Pg. 878

Large government owned farms

7. Russian Orthodox Church Pg. 877

Main target of persecution

6. League of Militant Godless Pg. 877

Officially sponsored group of atheists.

8. Command economy Pg. 877

System in which the government made all economic decisions.

13. Ukrainian Kulaks Pg. 879

Resisted collectivization, murdered officials, torched the property of the collectives, and burned their own crops and grain in protest.

14. Joseph Stalin Pg. 877

Rough and crude dictator that tried to create a myth that he was the country's father and savior. Glorified himself as the symbol of the nation.

9. Five-Year Plan Pg. 877

Set impossibly high quotas, or numerical goals, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity.