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18 Cards in this Set
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Who were wealthy Russian farmers?
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kulaks
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a system of brutal labor camps
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Gulag
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an economic system in which government makes all the decisions
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command economy
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an artistic style that showed the Soviet Union in a positive light
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socialist realism
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state- owned farms
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collectives
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Stalin's five years plan were aimed at
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building heavy industry and improving transportation
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To bring agriculture under his control, Stalin used
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forced collectivizaton
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The Great Purge and "show trails" tried to eliminate
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anyone Stalin saw as a threat
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Under Stalin, the official state religious policy was
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atheism
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The goal of the Comintern was to
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encourage worldwide revolution
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What had Karl Marx predict about the state?
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that under communism the state would eventually wither away
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What did Stalin turn the Soviet Union into?
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A totalitarian state controlled by a powerful and complex bureaucracy
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What did Stalin impose five year plans about?
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aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm out put
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What happened with Stalin's five year plan?
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set high production goals, production grew, wages were low, and workers were forbidden to strike.
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When the government took the grain from the peasants what happened?
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it left the peasants to starve, and led to a terrible famine
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What was the results of the Terror Famine?
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it cause between 5- 8 million people to die from starvation
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What did the secret police, torture, and violence do under Stalin?
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ensure obedience
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What style of art and writing did Stalin force them to do?
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Social realism
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