Students will be able to…

1) NEP - Identify War Communism. Identify the major changes made by Lenin in the Soviet Union after the Civil War. What were the effects of Lenin’s NEP?

2) 5-Year Plan - Identify the major changes made by Stalin in the Soviet Union in an effort to industrialize at the end of the 1920’s. Identify the effects, both positive and negative, of the first 5-year plan.

3) The Terror and the Purges - Describe why and when Stalin purged the party. Identify and describe the conditions of the Soviet Gulag system under Stalin. What excuse did he use to initiate the Great Terror? How many people were killed in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1953 (not including war losses)? Be able to give examples of at least 5 different groups that became victims at this time.

Students will be able to identify the significance of the following terms, events and people…

1) War Communism

2) Collectivization

3) The Kronstadt Revolt

4) NEP (New Economic Policy)

5) “Kulaks”

6) Lenin shooting (1918)

7) Stroke (1922)

8) Lenin’s “Testament”

9) The death of Lenin (1924)

10) The Industrialization Debate

11) Trotsky

12) Zinoviev

13) Kamenev

14) Stalin

15) Georgia

16) “Man of Steel”

17) Ekatarina

18) Nadya

19) Vasily

20) Svetlana

21) Ukraine Famine

22) Nikolai Bukharin

23) Comintern

24) “Socialism in one country”

25) The 1^st 5-Year Plan

26) GOSPLAN

27) Kolkhozes

28) Stakhanovite

29) Walter Duranty

30) Gulag

31) Stalinist Terror

32) Stalin’s Purges

33) Slovetsk

34) Cheka

35) NKVD

36) Lavrenti Beria

37) Anti-religious campaigns

38) KGB

39) Sergei Kirov

40) “Show Trials”

41) Journey into the Whirlwind

42) Eugenia Ginzburg

43) Alexander Solzhenitzyn

44) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

45) The Gulag Archipelago (1972)

46) Socialist Realism

47) Propaganda