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- When Stalin was getting total control of the country he implemented the Great Purge what was this purge and what was the result
- What things have to be controlled in a totalitarian communist state with propaganda to control what people believe?
- During WWI the czar went to the war front to be the general in charge and left his wife behind to run the government. She fell under the spell of a particular man. Who was he, what did he do that made so many people angry and what was his fate?
- Who joined with the Chinese Communists in the 1920s to fight against the Chinese warlords and in the 1930s to fight against Japan?
- Who was the one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and he led them after formation?
- Lenin dies in 1924 and Joseph Stalin takes over the USSR. Stalin built a Totalitarian state. What are the methods of control in a totalitarian state
- Once Lenin was in control what economic system did he have to use to get the country "back in its feet"?
- What were government owned farms in which hundreds of families were forced to work to produce food for everyone to share in Russia?
- What does it mean to "brainwash" people, especially from a young age, to believe what you want them to believe by teaching them false or one-sided information?
- An economic system in which the government tell you what you can buy, sell or make & owns all businesses & workers can't make a profit?
- Who transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state?
- Which type of government did both Russia & China briefly become between 1912 & 1917 in revolutions, before other revolutions followed that put another revolutionary group that was radical and left-wing in power?
- Communists believed that working class would overthrow the governments and rule the world as "a dictatorship of the __________".
- Alexander III encouraged the pogroms that violently persecuted
- Who was the commander of the Bolshevik Red Army that defeated the White Army in the Russian Civil War?
- In the 1920s, China's peasants began to align themselves with the ____________, who gave them land won from the rich corrupt govt.
- The "Long March" was a 6,000 mile journey in which the ______________ were running away from the _______________.
- Who was the Nationalist leader in China who turned on his allies & killed them in the Shanghai massacre?
- The Soviet government decided to eliminate kulaks, because of the kulaks resistance to what?
- The Soviet Union's Five-Year Plans were regarding what?