New Economic Policy: program instituted by Lenin for a temporarily more capitalism-oriented economic policy
superpower: very powerful and influential nation in the world
totalitarian state: state with a centralised government that is dictatorial and controls every part of people’s lives
Five-Year Plan: Stalin’s plan to industrialise the Soviet Union over five years
collectivisation: forceful joining of agriculture into huge state farms
kulak: peasant in Russia, who is wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour
Great Purge: period of repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s
Gulag forced labour camps: system of forced labour camps in which opponents of the Soviet Union were imprisoned and many people died
cult of personality: excessive public admiration for or devotion to a famous person