The Soviet Union A Successful Socialist State

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

totalitarianism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifA form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifconservative authoritarianism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifAlthough some of the conservative authoritarian regimes adopted certain Hitlerian and fascist characteristics in the 1930s, their general aims were limited. They were concerned more with maintaining the status quo than with forcing society into rapid change or war.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifcommunism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifA theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.giffascism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifA system of government characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First found in Italy by Mussolini.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifVladimir Lenin

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Founder of the Russian Communist Party, this man led the November Revolution in 1917 which established a revolutionary soviet government based on a union of workers, peasants, and soldiers.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifComintern

Was an international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State."

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifwar communism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifin World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifCheka

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifSecret police set up by Lenin-arrested "enemies of the revolution".

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifKronstadt Rebellion

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifThe rebellion that occurred in 1921; there was mutiny in Russia's navy for food. This made Lenin realized that some changes had to be made, so he created the New Economic Policy.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNew Economic Policy

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifPolicy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. (See also Lenin, Vladimir.) (p. 766)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifJoseph Stalin

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Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifsocialism in one country

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifPolicy adopted by Stalin in the autumn of 1924, in which the notion of a worldwide socialist revolution was abandoned in

favor of making the Soviet Union a successful socialist state.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifLeon Trotsky

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifRussian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifFive-Year Plans

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Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifCollectivization

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifCreation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants; part of Stalin's economic and political planning; often adopted in other Communist regimes.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifkulaks

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifRich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labor. They were their own class.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifCentral Committee

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifsupposedly the most important body in a communist party; its influence declined as it grew in size and the party needed daily leadership

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifPolitburo

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifa seven-member committee that became the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party in Russia

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifGeneral Secretary

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifleader of the Politburo; assumes full power as dictator of the country

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifGreat Terror

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifFrom 1936-1938, Stalin carries out Great Purges to remove all memory of the Bolshevik revolution thereby controlling history.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifshow trials

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifOld Bolsheviks confessed to crimes against the soviet union; Shown to the world- showed Stalin was right

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifOld Bolsheviks

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifmembers of original October Revolution of the Bolsheviks, first targets of Stalin

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifpurges

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifWhat Stalin ordered all who opposed him to be killed or put in prison and during the rule of Stalin millions were killed

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifgulag

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifa Russian prison camp for political prisoners

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifBenito Mussolini

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Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. (p. 786)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifIl Duce

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifthe Leader; Benito Mussolini

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifFascist party

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifItalian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943. (See also Mussolini, Benito.) (p. 786)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifBlack Shirts

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A private army under Mussolini who destroyed socialist newspapers, union halls, and Socialist party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of Northern Italy.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifMarch on Rome

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A strike "led" by Mussolini (who was nowhere to be found during this March) in which 30,000 or so Black shirts marched to Rome and Mussolini was legally put into power

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifcorporate state

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifMussolini's economic and political machinery to manage the Italian economy and settle issues between labor and management

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifLateran Pact

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gif1929, resulted in reconciliation with the papacy under Mussolini, institution of the Vatican as an independent state

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifVatican

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifthe headquarters of the Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifWeimar Republic

The new German republic the in 1921 owed 33 billion annually to the allied reparations commission. In order to recover from its severe economic issues the annual fees were reduced each year depending on the level of German economic prosperity and Germany received large loans each year from the United States.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNazism

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifThe doctrines of nationalism, racial purity, anti-Communism, and the all-powerful role of the State. The National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as the Nazi Party. Nazism was advocated by Adolf Hitler in Germany.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifAryan race

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifthe pure Germanic race, used by the Nazis to suggest a superior non-Jewish Caucasian typified by height, blonde hair, blue eyes

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNational Socialist German Workers Party

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gif(Nazi Party) was a far-right, racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifSA (Sturmabteilung)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifBrown Shirts

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifHitler's private army of supporters, also known as the SA (Sturm Abteilung).

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifBeer Hall Putsch

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifIn 1923 the Nazis attempted to overthrow the government in Munich. It was a total failure, and Hitler received a brief prison sentence during which time he wrote Mein Kampf.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifMein Kampf

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gif'My Struggle' by Hitler, later became the basic book of Nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.giflebensraum

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifHitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifFührer

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifGerman word for leader, used to describe Hitler in the Nazi Party.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifGreat Depression

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifthe economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifThird Reich

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifThe Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifReichstag fire

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February, 1933; the Reichstag was set on Fire by a secret order of Josef Goebbels; called a communist plot; Hitler convinced president Hindenburg to suspend all civil rights for Communists, socialists, liberals, and trade unionists

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifJoseph Goebbels

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German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifLeni Riefenstal

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She created documentaries - Berlin 1936 Olympics - "Triumph of the Will" 1935 - explicitly propaganda - but also historical

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifTriumph of the Will

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This Nazi propaganda film was created in 1936 by Leni Riefenstahl to show the might of the Nazi party at a rally in Nuremberg.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNight of Long Knives

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June, 30, 1934. On this night, Hitler sent his elite guards (Schutzstaffel/ SS/ black shirts) to kill the Storm Troopers, led by Ernst Röhm, and other non-Nazi political opponents.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifS.S. (Schutzstaffel)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifspecial police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifHeinrich Himmler

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German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifGestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei)

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the secret police force of the German Nazi state, notorious for its terrorism and brutality

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifHitler Youth

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Organizations set up under Hitler to train an educate German young people in Nazi beliefs

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifNuremberg Laws

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Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifKristallnacht

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Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured many Jews & destroyed many Jewish property’s

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifHolocaust

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifA methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.gifFinal Solution

http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/spacer.Thhr.giffinal solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers