RISE OF STALIN

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• How did Stalin take power in Soviet Russia?

DEATH OF LENIN

• Leader of Bolshevik (communist) Revolution dies shortly after taking power.

POWER STRUGGLE

• Stalin and Trotsky both contend to become new leader of Soviet Russia.

GENERAL SECRETARY

• Stalin gains power to control the Communist Party in Russia.

EXILE

• Trotsky ordered out of Soviet Russia.• Later killed in Mexico by Stalin’s agents.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What did Stalin do while in power?

FIVE YEAR PLAN

• Stalin’s ideas to make Soviet Russia into a major world power.

MILITARIZATION

• Make Soviet Russia into world’s strongest army.

NATIONALIZATION

• All industries under government control.

COLLECTIVIZATION

• All farms placed under government control.

SCIENTIFIC SUPREMACY

• Soviets would be the most technologically advanced.

SOCIALIST REALISM

• All works or art designed to promote communism to Russian people.

COMINTERN

• Plan to make other nations communist.

SOVIET UNION

• Fourteen neighboring nations of Russia are taken over, become Soviet Union.

CENTRALIZATION

• All 15 of the Soviet Republics were controlled by Stalin in Moscow.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• How did Stalin keep control of the people?

KGB

• Secret Police of Soviet Union.• Could search, seize property and arrest

citizens without cause.

PURGES

• Stalin orders millions of his enemies to death.

GULAGS

• Millions of Stalin’s enemies forced into prison labor camps.