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A _________________ _______________can build support for his policies and can justify his actions
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1. Economic Control
Define command economy _____________________________________________________
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_________ Years Plan set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of:
Consequences / Results:
• Government limited production of _____________________ _____________
= shortages of food, housing, and clothing for many years
• No improvements in standard of living
• __________________ economic results! Substantial gains
(even though most Five-Year Plans’ targets fell short)
2. Cultural Control
Stalin’s government used means of __________ ___________________ to shape people’s thinking toward
absolute faith in the Communist Party:
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Education
• Controlled all ____________, ____________, and ____________
• From nursery school to university!
• Indoctrination about: the ____________ of the Communist Party
• Citizens could NOT question it OR ELSE…
Religion
• Aim: to replace religion with the ideals of communism
• ____________ groups spread propaganda attacking religion
• Destroyed churches and synagogues; ____________ or ____________ religious leaders
• Still, many people in the Soviet Union still ____________ to their faiths.
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3. Political Control
• Stalin outlawed all other political parties
• Demanded obedience, which was enforced by the ___________ ______________
• Police terror: system to treat ordinary citizens like criminals
• Used _______________ and _______________ to stop protests / riots
• Tapped in telephone lines, read mail, & planted informers (tattle tellers) everywhere
• Jailing and _______________ political opponents
• The Great Purge (1937)
• Asserting the right to punish any person for “disobedience” =almost any act
4. Reign of Terror
• Under Stalin, Russians lost most ___________ ____________
• Millions died (estimated 8-13 million)
• The Terror Famine: Ukraine resisted rule by Stalin = the government confiscated __________
= 5 million people starved