Name:
Maria Ahmed loz
Answer in your copybook.
1. Describe Joseph Jughashvili's childhood/young adulthood.
2. When he was 20 years old, Stalin leaves the seminary to become a
Class:
in the illegal Georgian
3. What did Stalin learn from the strike in Batumi? The Power of collective action
4. What sort of
activities was Stalin up to while he was raising funds for the Communist party / How was
he behaving? he engaged in illegal activities: bank robberies
5. How did the death of Stalin's first wife, Ekaterina, affect him? It led him to emotional distress and mad
6. What happens
to Stalin at the dinner party with his friend Malinovsky? How does this affect his his heart.
him promise himself not to let anyone
in
mindset/personality? He was betrayed which made him
have severe trust issues.
7. "So when the Bolsheviks seize power in 1917, Stalin returns to the Capital, ready to take his place in
Lenin's new
Bringing with
him a brutal mindset born of years of struggle."
8. Joseph Jughashvili changes his name to Joseph Stalin. What does Stalin mean? man of Steel
9. Stalin gets
a seemingly unimportant job as General Secretary. Why does Stalin discover that this job is
more powerful than it appears
?
10. Why wasn't Leon Trotsky, a prominent Communist party member, at the funeral of Vladimir Lenin?
What does this mean for Stalin
?
11. What happens to Leon Trotsky?
12. How does Stalin plan to fix the "backwardness" of the Soviet Union?
13. What are the actual results of Stalin's agricultural reform?
14. "Stalin once said, 'The death of one man is a
the death of a million is a
15. Stalin tried to suppress news of the famine, which of the 8 characteristics of Totalitarianism does this
relate to / resemble? (Indoctrination, Propaganda, Censorship, Terror, Charisma, One Party Rule,
Economic Control, Extreme Nationalism)
16. Why did Stalin murder Sergei Kirov, a loyal Communist Party Member? What does this event allow
Stalin to do?
17. How does Stalin ensure that the Russian people will not go against his narrative of the Russian
Revolution? (How does he "force them to forget" the truth?)
18. "Children were made to see themselves as children of
first, and of their parents'
second; and if their parents were suspect, they were asked by their teachers to report back and there were
scores - hundreds of stories of children actually
their own parents."
19. What are Gulags?
20. Why is it surprising that Stalin & Hitler signed a pact together?
21. What was the "first real shock" of Stalin's life? How does he respond?
22. True/False. Stalin was a capable military leader.
23. Who are the victims of Stalin's 1953 purge?
24. How does Stalin die?
25. What is the reaction/feeling of the Soviet people?