World history/WHME102/Russia and Italy/Totalitarianism

Reading

Read the below lecture notes. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What was the Great Terror?

• What was life like for ordinary people in the Soviet Union?

Steven Kreis, 'The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler', The History Guide: Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe, 13 April 2012.

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• Stalin ...

• The Gulag ...

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