Consolidation and analysis
The regime promised to remake society, then turned to terror to control it. This content underpins Task 3.
Q1. Describe two ways the role of women changed under the Bolsheviks in the 1920s.
Q2. What was the "Great Retreat"? Give two examples of Stalin reversing earlier social policy.
Q3. Explain the purpose of the Show Trials within the Great Terror.
Q4. "The Stalinist regime relied more on propaganda than on terror to control Soviet society." To what extent do you agree? Support your answer with evidence. (Task 3 practice.)