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Russian After-Math
Economic Policies
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04/01/2005

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Command Economy
Definition
An economy that is planned and controlled by centeral administration, as in the fromer Soviet Union.
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Market Economy
Definition
An economy that operates by coulntary exchange in a free market and is not planned or controlled by a central authority; a capitalist economy.
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Markert Economy
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An economy that operates by coulntary exchange in a free market and is not planned or controlled by a central authority; a capitalist economy.
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Five Year Plan (AKA Central Planning)
Definition
Stalin's program for the attainment of economic goals.
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Rapid inudstriliazation
Definition
What was Stalin's main economic goal?
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A collective farm
Definition
A farm or group of farms organize as a unit and managed and worked cooperatively by a group of laborers under state supervision, especially in communist countries.
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Collectivization
Definition
Stalin's campaign to turn privare farms into communal farms.
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Kulak
Definition
A prosperous landed peasant in tsarist Russia. The communists regarded these peasants as "exploiters".
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De-Kulakization
Definition
Stalin's campaign to evict rich peasants from their farms and send them to labor camps in Siberia.
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Famine
Definition
A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage that causes severe hunger, starvation, and death.
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The Ukraine
Definition
The region of the Soviet Union that lies near the Black Sea. It was nicknamed "Russia's Breadbasket" because it was the major producer of wheat. Kiev is the capital and largest city. Thanks to Stalin, 20% of the people starved to death in 1933.
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Militarism
Definition
A policy in which military preparedness is of primary importance to a state.
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