2.2 the soviet union under Stalin

Question 1

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 1

program instituted by Lenin for a temporarily more capitalism-oriented economic policy.

Question 2

superpower

Answer 2

very powerful and influential nation in the world

Question 3

totalitarian state

Answer 3

state with a centralised government that is dictatorial and controls every part of people’s lives.

Question 4

Five-Year-Plan

Answer 4

Stalin’s plan to industrialise the Soviet Union over five years.

Question 5

collectivisation

Answer 5

forceful joining of agriculture into huge state farms

Question 6

kulak

Answer 6

peasant in russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour.

Question 7

great purge

Answer 7

period of repression and persecution in the soviet union during the late 1930s.

Question 8

gulag forced labour camps

Answer 8

system of forced labour camps in which opponents of the soviet union were imprisoned and many people died.

Question 9

cult of personality

Answer 9

excessive public admiration for or devotion to a famous person.