Thursday, April 27, 2017

Totalitarianism Part I: Overview and Stalin

Terms:

Totalitarianism
Fascism
Five Year Plan
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Joseph Stalin
Kulaks
The Great Purge

Questions:

What is the difference between totalitarianism and older authoritarian governments (like absolutism)?

Why do you think fascism arose specifically in Italy and Germany?

Why did Lenin need to institute the New Economic Policy (NEP)?

Why did the Five Year Plans fail?

How did Communism in Russia affect average people (particularly women)?

In what ways did Stalin take extreme measures to maintain control of the government?

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