totalitarianism quiz

Q1

A form of government in which the state has absolute control over almost every aspect of people's lives. The individual is considered a servant of the state and is allowed almost no freedom of choice or expression.

Q3

A modern autocratic government in which the state involes itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic and political matters but the attitudes, vales, and beliefs of its population.

Q5

A totalitarian government is ruled by one political party headed by, in most cases, a dictator.

Q6

Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and China sought the universal fulfillment of humankind through establishment of a classless society (communism0

Q7

Most totalitarian governments prohibit such groups as labor unions and trade associations.

Q8

-Under a totalitarian system, the government uses terror tactics to suppress individuals or groups who oppose the state.

-The government also uses censorship to silence anyone who criticizes its policies. The media spread government propaganda.

-A totalitarian government controls the nation’s economy through ownership or management of farmland industry. Thus, it determines the type and quantity of crops and goods that are produced.

Q13

-Paranoia and fear on the parts of the leader(s)

-A distortion of nationalism

-A subjugation of individual rights

-The use of scapegoat to blame all the problems on

-Capable of genocide and mass murder

Q14

The bolsheviks seized power in October, capturing the winter Palace, but they only controlled a small part of Russia.

Q15

In 1918, the ex-royal military officers and their allies formed and alliance against Lenin. They wanted to kick him out of power. Their forces were called the White Army.

Q16-17

Red Terror- Lenin killed over 200,000 innocent people between 1918-1919 in executions so he could eliminate anyone who wanted to take him out of power; many more died in labor camps called Gulags.

Q18

Lenin also executed thousands of other people during the Russian Civil War, so his war enemies could not take control of the people and towns he had captured.

Q19

An all-Russian congress of soviets (councils) met to give the Bolsheviks (later called Communists) executive power in Russia, who offered the country Peace, Land, and Bread.

Q20

Lenin started to transform Russia in line with Marxist principles of common ownership, putting all private industry and land under state control. this would create a “classless society” in theory.

Q22-23

war communism

Q21

under war communism, banks were taken into state control, and church property was confiscated. “war communism” took over, mines, factories, and railroads.

Q22

power in the factories was given to the workers. they broke up large estates, giving the farmland to the peasants.

Q23

peasants were forced to deliver “surplus” food to hungry people in the cities. peasants laborers were drafted into the military or factory work.

Q24

-Life under Lenin’s form of communism

-the communists under Lenin constantly attacked organized religion. priests were persecuted, and church property seized.

-all factories and banks were nationalized, and schools were taken from the church and given to the state.