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.