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Packet #1:STALIN

Assertion 1 Idea: The Rise of Stalin

Question 1: What was the state of Soviet Union prior to Stalin coming to power?
EV: In early October, Lenin convinced the Bolshevik Party to form an immediate insurrection
against the Provisional Government. The Bolshevik leaders felt it was of the utmost importance to
act quickly while they had the momentum to do so. The armed workers known as Red Guards
and the other revolutionary groups moved on the night of Nov. 6-7 under the orders of the
Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee. These forces seized post and telegraph offices,
electric works, railroad stations, and the state bank. Once the shot rang out from the Battleship
Aurora, the thousands of people in the Red Guard stormed the Winter Palace. The Provisional
Government had officially fallen to the Bolshevik regime. Once the word came to the rest of the
people that the Winter Palace had been taken, people from all over rose and filled it. V. I. Lenin,
the leader of the Bolsheviks, announced his attempt to construct the socialist order in Russia.
This new government made up of Soviets, and led by the Bolsheviks. By early November, there
was little doubt that the proletariats backed the Bolshevik motto: "All power to the soviets!"
Source #: http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/OctRev.html
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 2: How did Stalin move up through the ranks of the communist party?
EV: APPROVED In April 1922 Stalin ascended to the position of General Secretary of the ruling
Communist Party, a post that gave him control over all party appointments, promotions, and demotions.
This enabled him to fill the ranks of the Party with his allies and thereby solidify an enormous power base.
He appointed only loyal communists to leadership posts in local trade unions, cooperatives, and army units;
all appointees reported directly to Stalin, who kept detailed files not only on them, but also on all party
members and industrial managers.

Source #:http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2042
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 3: How did Stalin solidify power and ultimately become dictator? (if you dont know what
solidify means, google it)

EV: LENIN LENIN DIES With his position inside the party secure, Stalin began to solidify his power. His
greatest adversary was Trotsky, who he battled on the direction that the revolution should now go. Trotsky
wanted to spread the revolution around the world as Marx had predicted. Stalin argued that the Party must
protect and rebuild Russia first.By using his supporters, and creating deals with other powerful members of
the party, Stalin was able to push Trotsky out of the Party 1925. Trotsky was exiled to Siberia as
punishment, and ultimately exiled out of the country. Fifteen years later, Stalin had his secret police
assassinate Trotsky in Mexico. Although he was under heavy guard, an assassin was able to sneak in and
drive an ice pick into Trotsky's skull. He died one day later. Stalin was was ruthless in his attempt to gain
power, and with the elimination of Trotsky, his grip on the Soviet Union became tighter.

Source #: http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/history20/unit2/sec1_03.html
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #

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Assertion 2 Idea: Stalin maintenance of power
Question 1: How did Stalin improve/take steps to improve the economy?
EV: Write your quotation here - Joseph Stalin, in 1928, launched the first Five-Year Plan; it was designed
to industrialize the USSR in the shortest possible time and, in the process, to expedite the collectivization of
farms. The plan, put into action ruthlessly, aimed at making the USSR self-sufficient and emphasized heavy
industry at the expense of consumer goods. It covered the period from 1928 to 1933, but was officially
considered completed in 1932.

THIS IS THE CORRECT INFORMATION BUT NOT A VIABLE SOURCE; FIND THIS INFO AND
MORE IN ANOTHER BOOK
Source #: Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 2: How did Stalin use his military to maintain control/expand his reign? (if you dont know
what reign means, google it)

EV: Write your quotation here - Stalin saw no difference between espionage, communist political
propaganda actions, and state-sanctioned violence, and he began to integrate all of these activities within the
NKVD, which preceded the KGB. Stalin made considerable use of the Communist International movement in
order to infiltrate agents and to ensure that foreign Communist parties remained pro-Soviet and pro-Stalin.

EHHH...FIND ANOTHER ONE IF YOU CAN

Source #: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Josef_Stalin
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 3: How did Stalin maintain control over the people?
EV: Write your quotation here - Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate
anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on
one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps. During the
second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, a series of campaigns designed to rid the
Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat
APPROVE D

Source #: http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin
Citation: AUTHOR , pg
Question 4: How did Stalin manipulate the people to maintain his control?
EV: Write your quotation here- that a mark of human progress was control over nature because through
this people were free from unnecessary labour.

Source #:
Citation: Martin Phillips, 19
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Assertion 1 Idea: Stalins involvement in WWII
Question 1: Who did Stalin ally himself with at the beginning of WWII? Why?
EV: Write your quotation here -The Nazi invasion caught the Soviet military unprepared. This was

due in part to the depletion of the senior officer core in the Great Purges of 1936-1938. To secure Soviet
influence over Eastern Europe as well as open economic relations with Germany, Stalin's government
negotiated the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Adolf Hitler. This non-aggression pact between the Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany, as well as the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, was signed on August
23, 1939

HE NEEDS TO JOIN HITLER FIRST BEFORE THIS HAPPENS AND I NEED TO KNOW
WHY HE DOES THIS
Source #: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/stalin.html
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #
Question 2: Who did DICTATORS NAMEs ally himself with later on in WWII? Why?
EV: Write your quotation here -The relationship of the United States with its major allies, Great
Britain and the USSR has been a subject of great deal of controversy,
Source #:
Citation: Martin Folly , 424
Question 3: How did the nations involvement in WWII Stalin affect the country as a whole?
EV: Write your quotation here - The Soviet Union had twice or perhaps three times the

number of both tanks and aircraft as the Germans had, but their aircraft were mostly
obsolete. The Soviet tanks were about equal to those of the Germans, however. A
greater hindrance to Hitlers chances of victory was that the German intelligence
service underestimated the troop reserves that Stalin could bring up from the depths of
the U.S.S.R. The Germans correctly estimated that there were about 150 divisions in
the western parts of the U.S.S.R. and reckoned that 50 more might be produced. But
the Soviets actually brought up more than 200 fresh divisions by the middle of August,
making a total of 360. The consequence was that, though the Germans succeeded in
shattering the original Soviet armies by superior technique, they then found their path
blocked by fresh ones. The effects of the miscalculations were increased because
much of August was wasted while Hitler and his advisers were having long arguments
as to what course they should follow after their initial victories. Another factor in the
Germans calculations was purely political, though no less mistaken; they believed that
within three to six months of their invasion, the Soviet regime would collapse from lack
of domestic support.
Source #:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648813/World-War-II/53552/Invasion-ofthe-Soviet-Union-1941
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #