Consolidation

Question 1

form of government

Answer 1

• left wing
• nationalistic
• anti facist
• classless society

Question 2

ideology

Answer 2

socialism
communism
marxism
egaltarisnism
west rivarly

Question 3

support

Answer 3

• poorly educated
• ordinary party members
  -majority of peaants
  -lower class
  -communist
  0china and other communist states

Question 4

structure

Answer 4

established by 1922 and 1936 constitution

• hierarchal
• congress of soviets
• central execeuive commitee; consits of congress of nationalism and congree of union
• polituburo

Question 5

aims

Answer 5

• secure position as party and state leader
• defend USSR
• Rival west
• collectivization
• industrilization
• classless society

Question 6

opposition

Answer 6

church
collectibized peasants
russianc ommunist party members
lenin and his wife
trotsky, zinoviev, kameneve, buhkarin, etc
kulaks (upper class)
workers in bad conditions
usa/west

Question 7

contitution of 1936

Answer 7

• stalin reviews 1922 constitution
• democratic ideals
• antyhing against interest of workers banished
• made russia look good internationality

Question 8

propaganda

Answer 8

• molotov in charge
• stakhonov records and medeals; the stakhovinite movement motivates
• education and youth organizations
• show trials
• stalins speeches

Question 9

cult of personality

Answer 9

‘communim as religion’
-extension of cult of lenin
aim; maintain people’s loyalty and suppress critism
- history rewritten; makes stalin look dope
- propaganda campaigns
-censorship

Question 10

purges (great terror) 1937-38

Answer 10

• gulags (soviet labour camps)
• stalin wants to maintain party dominance
• paranoid that people’s party would overthrow him
• party members were tried, executed and sent to gulags (e.g. zinovieve and kamenev)
• torture legalized and regional arrests
• show trials; public trials to scare people
• forced confessions that betray alll;
  1. 5 million exectueted, 8 million sent to gulags

Question 11

purge of party

Answer 11

oppoistion and passive members

ensure total loyatly to stalin

Question 12

purge of people

Answer 12

peasants who resisted collectivization
targets lazy peasants
anti soviets
250,000 died

Question 13

purge of army

Answer 13

• officers of armed forces and civil war leader targeted
  -fear of coup by stalin to execeute best commanders
  35000 killed

Question 14

kirov

Answer 14

sergei kirov; stalins friend who got more votes than stalin in central commitee in 1934 elections
= is murdered
=gives stalin opportunity to purge Leningrad party and itnroduce new members; sparked great terror