Stalin Key Terms

Question 1

Proletariat

Answer 1

Industrial working class

Question 2

Congress

Answer 2

Held regularly where Party members listened to reports from leading party figures on policies and progress.

Question 3

Anti-Semitism

Answer 3

Prejudice against Jews, using them as a scapegoat for problems.

Question 4

Bourgeoisie

Answer 4

The middle class

Question 5

Procurement

Answer 5

The state ‘procured’/acquired grain from the peasantry either peacefully or using force.

Question 6

Urals-Siberian method

Answer 6

A War Communism method of grain requisitioning where kulaks had high quotas.

Question 7

Centrally-controlled, planned economy

Answer 7

The model used to manage the economy from 1930s onwards where all key decisions on productions and targets were made centrally.

Question 8

Totalitarian

Answer 8

A society where the government tries to control all aspects of people’s lives using force and propaganda.

Question 9

NKVD

Answer 9

The secret police from 1934. Yagoda was head until 1936 then replaced by Yezhov who was replaced by Beria in 1938.

Question 10

OGPU

Answer 10

The secret police replaced the GPU in 1923 and replaced NKVD in 1934.

Question 11

Holodomor

Answer 11

The man-made Ukraine famine 1932-34

Question 12

Socialist Realism

Answer 12

An art from which was propagandist, conveying that life under Socialism was happy for workers and peasants, and it was successful.

Question 13

Right Opposition

Answer 13

Bukharin, Tomsky, Rykov

Question 14

Left Opposition

Answer 14

Trotsy, Zinoviev, Kamenev