The Demands of Total War in the Soviet Union Had

question 60

Multiple Choice

The demands of total war in the Soviet Union had encouraged independent initiative and led to relaxed Communist oversight, a development that Stalin

• A) encouraged in his five-year plan of 1946 through a series of decentralization measures designed to increase production levels.
• B) praised as proof of worker flexibility and self-empowerment, two linchpins of socialism.
• C) ruthlessly reversed through increased repression, aggressive production goals, and a still more radical collectivization of agriculture.
• D) reversed with the gradual adoption of the command and control procedures regularly exercised in the ever-growing Soviet army.

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