Joseph Stalin The Red Terror

Early Life Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in His 3 older brothers all died. He was a sickly child and his mother feared he would die too. One arm was shorter than the other and he had smallpox as a child, leaving him with scars on his face. Other children called him “________.” He was sent to a _________________, where

he showed his leadership skills, was later kicked out for “__________________________.” Joined gangs as a teen and acted as a young ____________________. He was arrested 8 times and escaped from Siberia ___ times. During this time he took on his first nickname, ___________. He held up a bank in Gori, when the manager refused to open the vault, Stalin set a ______ outside of the door, killing several people, including the bank manager. All of these actions caught the attention of ____________ leaders in Tbilisi.

Stalin wrote to Lenin, “I am your ___________,” and Lenin responded by telling him to keep doing what he was doing and to recruit others. He married his first wife at this time. His son’s name was _____________. His daughter, ______________ was his favorite. Lenin finally put Stalin in the government and they prepared for a ______________________ in October, He became Lenin’s right-hand man. It was around this name that he took the name, Stalin, which means “____________________.”

When Lenin died of a stroke in 1924, he said ________________ should succeed him. Stalin later had _____________ killed in Mexico. As the new leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin put his __________________ in motion. Using this strategy, he hoped to modernize Russia. During this time, he set goals so high, people couldn’t reach them. If people complained or didn’t reach their goals, they were often sent to the ___________ in Siberia. Stalin took land from families and built _______ _____________, farms owned by the gov’t. Farmers were expected to work 6 days a week, collec-

from dawn until dusk. In the summer, they worked _____ hours a day because the sun doesn’t set. When the_____________ rebelled, he sent Nikita Khrushchev to settle it. ____________ people died in a famine in one season, ______ ________ in the Ukraine. Meanwhile, Stalin was selling wheat abroad. Stalin accused “____________________,” but no one blamed him because they believed their __________________ was at fault. Purges of the 1930s When Stalin learned about a plan to overthrow him, he became even more ______________.

He decided to eliminate anyone he saw as a threat, especially the old _________________. One year later, only ____ leaders in Stalin’s party were left. Some were dead, some sent to the __________. During this time, Stalin took out ____ of his generals because he accused them of collaborating with the Nazis. That left only _______________ to fight World War II. Next Stalin targeted _______________, authors, professors, thinkers, anyone who could think for themselves. These were the people who were needed to make society work.

Stalin’s next target was _________________. Each night, NKVD would arrest anyone they said violated the law. This is where _________ ___________ people died. Some simply _____ ___________. No one spoke against for fear of ________________________. People never knew who was listening to what they were saying. Stalin insisted that the accused have a _____________, even if it was forced. He wanted his arrests to be legitimate. He had a nearly _____ confession rate. ____________German POWs were used as slave labor to build roads.

World War II When WWII began, Hitler and Stalin signed a ____________________ becoming allies. In 1941, Hitler suddenly turned away from the __________________ and turned his attention to ____________. Stalin refused to believe it was happening; he thought it was a trick. After the war ended, he had the troops coming home and POWs sent to the gulag because he accused them of ____________________ because they “gave up.” It was at this time that Stalin targeted the ____. He blamed them for a bad _____________.

Luckily for the Jews, he died before the purges went too far. He probably died on March 4, 1953 of a hemorrhage, but no one checked on him until March 5. When Stalin died, the nation ____________. People lined up to get a chance to see his body in its coffin. It is estimated that several ______ came to see him at one time.