New Economic Policy• Instituted by Lenin which had capitalistic aspects, but was discarded

by Joseph Stalin.

Joseph Stalin• Leader of the Soviet Union, and imposed his Five Year Plans.

Five Year Plans• Instituted by Stalin that called for expedient agricultural production by

ruthlessly taking over private farms and combining them into state-owned enterprises, and advocated for the construction of large, nationalized factories.

Collectivization• Taking over private farms and combining them into state owned

enterprises.

Totalitarianism• The political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an

absolute state authority

Communism• A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and

leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

USSR• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The "Great Purge"• Referring to the Stalin regime systematically killing so many of its

enemies.