The Soviet Union: Stalin's dictatorship

Vocabulary

CSPU, cooperative, dissident.

To exile, to assassinate, to ban. 

1.       Answer these questions about  the texts.

a)      What two communist leaders struggled to be Lenin’s successor?

b)      Who won? What happened to him?

c)       Who lost? What happened to him?

d)      Name the three main factors of Stalin’s economic model.

e)      Write a sentence defining collectivization.

f)       Define ‘kolkhoz’.

g)      Which social groups in particular were affected by Stalin’s repression?

h)      What were the Gulags?