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1 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TEST
December 13, 2016 Global II Agenda: DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review NOTES #24: How did Joseph Stalin impact the Soviet Union? RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TEST TOMORROW

2 How did Joseph Stalin impact the Soviet Union? Notes #24

3 In 1924, Vladimir Lenin died, which immediately led to a power struggle among Communist Party leaders . . . Joseph Stalin Leon Trotsky Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924)

4 . . . and eventually resulted in Joseph Stalin becoming the new leader of the Communists and the Soviet Union.

5 NKVD secret police agency
Stalin’s leadership of the Soviet Union was a period of censorship and terror. NKVD secret police agency

6 For example, during the 1930s, Stalin used purges and public trials to eliminate any opposition to himself and his government.

7 An estimated 40 million people were killed as a result of Stalin’s policies

8 Stalin established a command economy in the Soviet Union, in which the government determined the type and quantity of goods produced.

9 Five-Year Plan propaganda posters
Under Stalin’s economic programs, called Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union increased its industrial output by developing heavy industry. Five-Year Plan propaganda posters

10 An estimated 14 million people died of starvation in the Soviet Union
However, a major effect of Stalin’s economic programs was a widespread food shortage throughout the Soviet Union. An estimated 14 million people died of starvation in the Soviet Union

11 For example, during the 1930s, Ukraine experienced a famine as a result of the Soviet Union’s attempt to collectivize agriculture. Holodomor (1932 – 1933); an estimated 7.5 million Ukrainian people died of starvation


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