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Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented by Joseph Stalin. Stalinist policies in the Soviet Union included rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, a centralized state, collectivization of agriculture, cult of personality, and subordination of interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Uniondeemed by Stalinism to be the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. Stalinism promoted the escalation of class conflict, utilizing state violence to forcibly purge society of claimed supporters of the bourgeoisie, regarding them as threats to the pursuit of the communist revolution that resulted in substantial political violence and persecution of such people. These included not only bourgeois people but also working-class people accused of counter-revolutionary sympathies.

Stalinist industrialization was officially designed to accelerate the development towards communism, stressing that such rapid industrialization was needed because the country was previously economically backward in comparison with other countries; and that it was needed in order to face the challenges posed by internal and external enemies of communism. Rapid industrialization was accompanied with mass collectivization of agriculture and rapid urbanization. Rapid urbanization converted many small villages into industrial cities. To accelerate the development of industrialization, Stalin pragmatically created joint venture contracts with major American private enterprises, such as Ford Motor Company, that under state supervision assisted in developing the basis of industry of the Soviet economy from the late 1920s to 1930s. After the American private enterprises completed their tasks, Soviet state enterprises took over.
1. What is Stalinism?
2. What was Stalinist industrialization officially designed to do?
3. What did rapid urbanization do to many small villages?
4. Who implremented Stalinism?
5. What was the political party deemed by Stalinism to be the leading vangaurd party of the communist revolution at the time?
6. What did Stalin do to accelerate the development of industialization for his country?
7. What accompanied Rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union?
8. Did stalinism promote the escalation of class conflict?
9. Who was persecuted by the revolution?
10. Who took over Soviet industriy after American private enterprises?

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1. Governing and policies implemented by Joseph Stalin
2. Accelerate the development towards communism.
3. Converted them into industrial cities
4. Joseph Stalin
5. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
6. Created joint venture contracts with major American private enterprises.
7. Mass collectivization and rapid urbanization
8. Yes
9. Bourgeois and their supporters
10. The Soviet state

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Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- An emotional Oscar Pistorius apologized Monday to the family of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he killed on Valentine's Day last year, saying he woke up thinking of them and praying for them every day.

"I would like to take this opportunity to apologize -- to Mr. and Mrs. Steenkamp, to Reeva's family -- to those who are here today who knew her," Pistorius said as he took the stand for the first time at his murder trial.

"I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I have caused you and your family. ... I can promise you that when she went to bed that night, she felt loved," he said, his voice breaking as if he was fighting back tears.

It was the first time he has spoken in public about Steenkamp's death, which he says was an accident. He pleaded not guilty to murder when the high-profile trial opened last month.

Steenkamp's mother, June, sat stony-faced in court as South Africa's onetime Olympic golden boy choked out his statement.

Judge Thokozile Masipa also betrayed no emotion as Pistorius spoke but did once ask him to talk louder, saying she could hardly hear him.

Monday was the first day of the defense phase of the trial, following three weeks of prosecution in March.

Pistorius, who says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder in his house in the dark, testified that he has been suffering nightmares since the killing and wakes up smelling blood.
1. Where is this happening?
2. What is happening?
3. what was her name?
4. when did it happen?
5. what phase is it in?
6. Did he speak?
7. What did he say?
8. What did he say happen?
9. how long was the first phase of the trial?
10. Why was it high profile?
11. from what country?
12. Who was presiding over the case?

Numbered answers:
1. Pretoria, South Africa
2. Oscar Pistorius murdered his girlfriend
3. Reeva Steenkamp
4. Valentine's Day last year
5. defense phase of the trial
6. yes
7. I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I have caused you and your family. ... I can promise you that when she went to bed that night, she felt loved,"
8. he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder in his house in the dark
9. a month
10. he is an olympian
11. South Africa
12. Judge Thokozile Masipa

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Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter (/bijnse/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyonce's debut album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which established her as a solo artist worldwide, earned five Grammy Awards and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy".

Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in June 2005, she released her second solo album, B'Day (2006), which contained hits "Deja Vu", "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar". Beyonce also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Dreamgirls (2006), and starring roles in The Pink Panther (2006) and Obsessed (2009). Her marriage to rapper Jay Z and portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), which saw the birth of her alter-ego Sasha Fierce and earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010, including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Beyonce took a hiatus from music in 2010 and took over management of her career; her fourth album 4 (2011) was subsequently mellower in tone, exploring 1970s funk, 1980s pop, and 1990s soul. Her critically acclaimed fifth studio album, Beyonce (2013), was distinguished from previous releases by its experimental production and exploration of darker themes.
1. What is Beyonce's middle name?
2. Where was she born?
3. Did she sing as a child?
4. What year did she become famous?
5. how?
6. in what group?
7. Did the group stay together?
8. when did they break up?
9. Who was their manager?
10. what was his name?
11. Was the band popular?
12. When did Beyonce go on her own?
13. How did she do?
14. Did she win any awards?
15. What was one of the songs?
16. What year did she release her first album
17. and her second?
18. What was a hit on that album?
19. Who did she marry?
20. what does he do?
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1. Giselle
2. Houston
3. Yes
4. Sometime in the late 1990s
5. As a singer
6. Destiny's Child
7. No
8. In 2005
9. Her father
10. Mathew Knowles,
11. Yes
12. Initially in 2003
13. Very well
14. Five Grammy Awards
15. Baby Boy
16. 2003
17. 2005
18. Beautiful Liar
19. Jay Z
20. Rapper