Stalin’s USSR — history review game (French curriculum, 3e)

3e — French national curriculum (ages 14–15)

History game “Stalin’s USSR”: In the USSR, workers labor below huge factories, peasant women harvest a collective farm field crossed by tractors, and a large propaganda poster towers over the street.

History review game on the lesson “Stalin’s USSR” from the French curriculum for 3e (ages 14–15). Every answer is checked and explained.

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Teaching documentation of the game “History, French curriculum 3e — Stalin’s USSR”

About this game

Review the lesson “Stalin’s USSR” from the French history curriculum for 3e (ages 14–15). Its questions are about the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s USSR: Lenin’s Bolsheviks take power by force, in the middle of the war; the birth of the USSR; after Lenin’s death, Stalin pushes aside his rivals, including Trotsky, and rules the country alone; the collectivization of the land into kolkhozes and sovkhozes, and the peasants accused of being kulaks; the five-year plans, which build up heavy industry; the single party, propaganda, the compulsory worship of the leader, mass terror, and the forced-labor camps; and a regime that wants to control everything, down to people’s thoughts.

Review the lesson “Stalin’s USSR”

This review game covers a single lesson of the French history curriculum for 3e: “Stalin’s USSR”, from the unit “Europe, a major theater of total wars (1914-1945).” Its questions are about the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s USSR: Lenin’s Bolsheviks take power by force, in the middle of the war; the birth of the USSR; after Lenin’s death, Stalin pushes aside his rivals, including Trotsky, and rules the country alone; the collectivization of the land into kolkhozes and sovkhozes, and the peasants accused of being kulaks; the five-year plans, which build up heavy industry; the single party, propaganda, the compulsory worship of the leader, mass terror, and the forced-labor camps; and a regime that wants to control everything, down to people’s thoughts.

Each round has 10 questions drawn at random from the lesson: multiple choice, matching and short answers. After each answer, an explanation recalls what to remember. Hints are free, and you can go back.

The game follows the French national curriculum: 3e is the fourth and last year of middle school in France, for students aged 14 to 15. Elsewhere, it works as general knowledge for curious learners of that age. Play it again and you get other questions: it is good practice right after the lesson or before a test.

Tip for a successful review

To put the key events in order, ask yourself, for each one, what had to have happened already to make it possible: Stalin can only take Lenin’s place after Lenin’s death. When two of Stalin’s policies look alike, ask yourself what each one is for and whom it affects first. And remember that a propaganda poster shows what the government wants people to believe, not reality. If you get it wrong, read the explanation carefully: it tells you what to remember.