| Term | Definition |
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Joseph Stalin |
quiet man who rarely received much public notice. changed Dzhugashivili to Stalin which means "man of steel" in Russian |
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totalitarianism |
describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspcet pf public and private life |
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command economy |
a system in which the government made all economic decisions |
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collective farm |
government began to seize over 25 million privately owened farms in USSR. it combined them into large, government-owned farms |
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kulak |
resistance was strong in this class, class of wealthy peasants |
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Great Purge |
campaign of terror. directed ar eliminating anyone who threatened his power |
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Socialist realism |
an artistic style that praised Soviet life and Communist values |