October 29

I'm sorry that I didn't post this blog earlier today, but it was kind of a busy day. If you missed today's class, here's what happened: I did a homework check on the website notes (see previous post) on the Social and Political System in the Soviet Union. Additionally, both classes had access to the laptops, and were able to work on the Edgar Allan Poe webquest.

Don't forget to study for your Chapter 6 Quiz, which is on Monday. In case you missed it, here is the study guide for the upcoming quiz:

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:

• Chapter 6 Quiz, Monday, November 1st
• Soviet Timeline Project is due Thursday, November 4th