Stalin's Show Trials

Sending the red army to forcibly confiscate the land

58%

10 million deaths

<p>Renaming cities and streets after himself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To bring communism to the world stage and demonstrate the power of purges</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the prosecutor who interrogated the accused individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were executed based on flimsy evidence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It removed the threat of a military uprising against him</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To eliminate any opponents or suspected opponents of Stalin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It demonstrated the large-scale nature of Stalin's terror</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To eliminate any person perceived as a threat to the government</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They feared falling victim themselves or facing punishment if they failed to reach the arrest quota</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Extremely tough</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Workers strived to work like Stakhanov, who was declared a 'hero of socialist labour' for exceeding targets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To join all small unproductive peasant farms together to form large state-owned farms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small farmers destroyed their produce and livestock when asked to hand them over to the state, leading to a crash in production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make Russia self-sufficient, modernize the Soviet Union, and ultimately make it a world power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heavy industry such as coal, iron, machinery, and railways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consumer goods, which were largely taken over by military weapons production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The construction of a huge canal connecting the White Sea with the Volga.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stalin used force and the Red Army to confiscate the land and coerce peasants to join collective farms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The collective farms were inefficient, leading to a famine that caused the deaths of 10 million people between 1932-1933.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stalin's policy of using harsh penalties and the 5-year plans furthered his control of the economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stalin effectively used propaganda, statues, posters, renaming of cities, and manipulation of media to create a cult of personality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Absolute fear, propaganda, and establishment of state control in the economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through the implementation of ambitious 5-year plans focusing on heavy industry and consumer goods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heavy industry such as coal, iron, machinery, and railways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The focus shifted to military weapons and infrastructure projects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Destroyed their produce and livestock</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Join small unproductive peasant farms to form large state-owned farms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Designed to increase production, but resulted in a crash in production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Workers strived to work like Stakhanov</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>58%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inefficient</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through his 5-year plans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forced to join</p> Signup and view all the answers