October 25

Today you wrote your Chapter 5 Quiz. If you missed class today, then you will have to schedule a time to write this quiz with me. We started Chapter 6 today. I gave you some notes on Features of the Soviet Economy in class, specifically State Ownership and Control of the Means of Production, and Central Planning of Production. You are required to finish off the notes on the Soviet economy that we started in class, you can find the information on page 167 from your text. We also talked about Scarcity briefly, and the Basic Economic Questions. I also gave you the Chapter 6 Quiz Study Guide. The Chapter 6 Quiz will next Monday, November 1st. You must print off some notes from the Social Studies Web again, this time the notes will be on the Soviet Economy. Here's the hyperlink for the notes:
http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b689/mainFrame/departments/humanities/gilchrist/9Btut8.htm

Please scroll down to the bottom of the webpage, open up the Handout link, and print off the PDF file.

Here is the Chapter 6 Quiz Study Guide

Format:

1. Matching Section
2. Short Answer Section

Topics:

• Key Terms
• Basic Features of the Centrally Planned Economy
• Basic Economic Questions
• Differences between a Market Economy, Mixed Economy, and a Command Economy
• Characteristics of Socialism
• What is communism?
• State farms (sovkhoz) and Collective farms (kolkhoz)
• How the Soviet economy worked
• What was the role of the Communist Party, Gosplan, Ministries, and Directors in the Soviet economy?

These are the key terms that will appear on the quiz:

• capital
• scarcity
• Gosplan
• enterprise
• market economy
• mixed economy
• command economy
• state farms
• collective farms
• producers
• production target
• consumers
• "storming"
• goods
• means of production
• the second economy
• socialism
• communism
• means of production

Here are some upcoming important dates:

• Soviet Timeline Project is due Thursday, November 4th
• Chapter 6 Quiz is on Monday, November 1st
• Soviet Economy notes (from website) due Wednesday, October 27th
• Finish notes from class, due tomorrow