02/01/2006

                                    The Soviet Union Under Stalin
                    Read pages 654-659, complete (1-5) on page 659

1. Define or identify: Five Year Plan, quota, collective farm, gulag, Great Purge,
totalitarian state.

2. Who were the rivals for Soviet leadership when Lenin died?

3. How did the Five-Year Plan affect private business, consumers, and workers?

4. Why did Stalin collectivize Soviet agriculture?  What effects did collectivization have on the economy?

5. Critical Thinking: How did the state created by Lenin and Stalin differ from that predicted by Karl Marx?