Cram Terms

Question 1

1936 Constitution

Answer 1

Stalin’s Constitution. Int universal suffrage. Greater representation to nation states.

Question 2

Agitprop

Answer 2

The Agitation and Propaganda Department

Question 3

Berlin Blockade

Answer 3

24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949

Question 4

Bloody Sunday

Answer 4

30th January 1905, 200 shot dead, 800 injured

Question 5

Quote by Marx to support NEP

Answer 5

‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development ofall’

Question 6

Cheka

Answer 6

Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle against Counter Revolution and Sabotage, founded 1917

Question 7

Cominform

Answer 7

The Communist Information Bureau set up 1947 to co-ordinate economic recovery for Eastern Europe (disbanded 1956)

Question 8

Comintern

Answer 8

The Communist International Body set up March 1918 to spread communism abroad

Question 9

Doctors Plot

Answer 9

1953, mostly Jewish Moscow doctors accused of conspiracy to assassinate Soviet leaders. 9 doctors were arrested.

Question 10

Duma

Answer 10

an elected imperial parliament with a restricted franchise

Question 11

Eastern Question

Answer 11

issues which arose due to instability and subsequent collapse of Ottoman state

Question 12

Great Russia

Answer 12

the territory which formed the Old Russian Principality, focused on Moscow

Question 13

Great Spurt

Answer 13

1893-1903

Question 14

Great Terror

Answer 14

1936-38

Question 15

Interior Ministry

Answer 15

the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) dealt with internal state security

Question 16

Kadets

Answer 16

The Constitutional Democrats, a liberal political group founded 1905

Question 17

KGB

Answer 17

The Committee for State Security, formed out of the MVD in 1954, for used on internal and external security.

Question 18

Land Captains

Answer 18

introduced 1989 to oversee work of zemstva

Question 19

Medele’ev tariff

Answer 19

700-page book of tariffs to be applied to all imports of goods, introduced in 1891

Question 20

NKVD

Answer 20

The People’s Commissariat for State Security, formed 1934, disbanded 1946.

Question 21

Ogburo

Answer 21

body formed under Central committee; maintained order and dealt with opposition

Question 22

Okhrana

Answer 22

secret police active under tsarist regime

Question 23

OGPU

Answer 23

the secret police formed from the Cheka and active between 1922-1934

Question 24

Orgburo

Answer 24

body formed under the Central Committee; responsible for organising party affairs

Question 25

Party Central Committee

Answer 25

main body responsible for administration and operation of three political offices (Politburo, Orgburo, Ogburo)

Question 26

Sovnarkom

Answer 26

the Soviet of People’s Commissars, established 1917

Question 27

Socialist Revolutionaries

Answer 27

greater interest in urban proletariat. Socialist Revolutionary Party formed 1901.

Question 28

Stakhanovite movement

Answer 28

movement based on exploits of Alexei Stakhanov, an industrious Donbas miner promoted as a ‘model’ worker for others to copy.

Question 29

Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance 1948

Answer 29

basis of Finno-Soviet relations

Question 30

Virgin Lands scheme

Answer 30

Khurhschev’s attempt to introduce agriculture to the ‘virgin’ soils of Kazakhstan and Western Siberia

Question 31

Wager on the Strong

Answer 31

Stolypin’s 1906 land reforms aimed to redistribute land to the more able and educated peasants

Question 32

War communism

Answer 32

nationalisation of large enterprises, a state monopoly on goods and services, the forced requisitioning of agricultural produce