Document 1 Stalin came to power after Lenin's death in 1924, inheriting a government
that was still struggling to control an unwieldy empire. The new premier
[leader) soon turned his attention toward Ukraine, the largest and most
troublesome of the non-Russian Soviet republics.At a time when Stalin
wanted to build a strong industrial base, they clung to their rural peasant
traditions. At a time when he wanted to abolish private ownership of land,
they refused to surrender their farms. In short, the Ukrainians had become a
threat to the revolution...
Source: Linda Jacobs Altman, Genocide: The Systematic Killing of a People,
Enslow Publishers
Geographic Context: where the historical development or event took place and why
it took place there.
1. Explain the geographic context that led to the development of the events
described in Document 1.
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