The document outlines key economic and political events and concepts in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin's leadership, including the New Economic Policy instituted by Lenin that was later discarded, Stalin's Five Year Plans that forcibly collectivized private farms into state-owned enterprises to rapidly industrialize the nation, the totalitarian political system where citizens were completely subject to state authority, and Stalin's "Great Purge" where he systematically eliminated many perceived enemies.

1. New Economic Policy
• Instituted by Lenin which had capitalistic aspects, but was discarded
by Joseph Stalin.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Totalitarianism
• The political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an
absolute state authority

6. 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.

7. USSR
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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