Dates

Question 1

When was Lenin’s Testament written?

Answer 1

1922

Question 2

When did Lenin die?

Answer 2

21st January 1924

Question 3

When was Lenin’s funeral?

Answer 3

27th January 1924

Question 4

When did Trotsky lose his job as Commissar for War?

Answer 4

1925

Question 5

When did Kamenev, Zinoviev, and Trotsky form the United Opposition?

Answer 5

1926

Question 6

When were Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled from the party?

Answer 6

1927

Question 7

When was Trotsky expelled from the Soviet Union?

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

When did Stalin become the undisputed leader of the USSR?

Answer 8

1929

Question 9

When was Pytor Voykov (Soviet diplomat) assassinated?

Answer 9

1927

Question 10

When was the Grain Procurement Crisis?

Answer 10

1927-8

Question 11

When was the first Five Year Plan?

Answer 11

1928 - 1932

Question 12

When was the second Five Year Plan?

Answer 12

1933 - 1937

Question 13

When was the third Five Year Plan?

Answer 13

1938 - 1941

Question 14

When does Stalin give the order to ‘liquidate the kulaks as a class’?

Answer 14

1929

Question 15

When does Stalin decide that the first Five Year Plan targets should be met by 1931?

Answer 15

1929

Question 16

When does the USSR enter the Second World War against Germany?

Answer 16

1941

Question 17

When is the Bolshevik Party renamed the Communist Party?

Answer 17

1952

Question 18

When did Ford Motor Company help the Soviet car industry produce 140,000 cars?

Answer 18

1932

Question 19

When was the Great Famine?

Answer 19

1932-33

Question 20

When was Cement by Fyodor Gladkov published?

Answer 20

1925

Question 21

When were the Great Purges?

Answer 21

1930s

Question 22

When did Stalin’s wife, Nadezhda Allilyueva commit suicide?

Answer 22

1932

Question 23

When was the Ryutin Platform?

Answer 23

1932

Question 24

When was Yezhov named a member of the Purge Commission?

Answer 24

April 1933

Question 25

When was the 17th Party Conference?

Answer 25

1934

Question 26

When were Stalin and Kirov both given the title Secretary of Equal Rank?

Answer 26

1934

Question 27

When does the Cheka become the NKVD?

Answer 27

1934

Question 28

When was the film Chapaev released?

Answer 28

1934

Question 29

When was Kirov murdered?

Answer 29

1st December 1934

Question 30

When did Yezhov become the leader of the NKVD?

Answer 30

1936

Question 31

When was the Trial of Sixteen?

Answer 31

1936

Question 32

When was How the Steel was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky published?

Answer 32

1936

Question 33

When was the Trial of the Seventeen?

Answer 33

1937

Question 34

When did Beria become the leader of the NKVD?

Answer 34

1938

Question 35

When were the purges of the NKVD?

Answer 35

1938

Question 36

When was the Trial of the Twenty-One?

Answer 36

1938

Question 37

When was Yezhov arrested?

Answer 37

1939

Question 38

The Short Course of the History of the All Union Communist Party and The Short Biography of Stalin were ordered to be written in what year?

Answer 38

1939

Question 39

When was the Russo-Finnish war?

Answer 39

1939-40

Question 40

When was Yezhov executed?

Answer 40

February 1940

Question 41

When was Trotsky murdered?

Answer 41

21st August 1940

Question 42

When was the census that highlighted that there were over 180 national groups living in the USSR?

Answer 42

1926

Question 43

When was Gorky Park built?

Answer 43

1928

Question 44

When was the Zhenotdel closed down?

Answer 44

1930

Question 45

When did the rationing of bread end?

Answer 45

1935

Question 46

When was the Family Code published?

Answer 46

1936

Question 47

When was the Housewife’s Movement launched?

Answer 47

1936

Question 48

When did Stalin make a speech declaring that women were now equal to men?

Answer 48

1937

Question 49

When were over 170,000 ethnic Koreans deported to central Asia?

Answer 49

1937

Question 50

When did factories move to a seven day week?

Answer 50

1939

Question 51

When was the Labour Code introduced?

Answer 51

1940

Question 52

When were 89,000 Finns deported?

Answer 52

1941

Question 53

When were the Volga Germans deported to central Asia?

Answer 53

1941

Question 54

When did Ekaterina Furtseva become a member of the Poliburo?

Answer 54

1957

Question 55

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?

Answer 55

23rd August 1939

Question 56

When did Operation Barbarossa begin?

Answer 56

22nd June 1941

Question 57

When was Order No. 270 passed?

Answer 57

16th August 1941

Question 58

When was the Siege of Leningrad?

Answer 58

September 1941 - January 1944

Question 59

When did Stalin make the decision to stay in Moscow during WWII?

Answer 59

October 1941

Question 60

When did General Zhukov launch a counter attack at the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 60

December 1941

Question 61

When was Stalin made Man of the Year by Time Magazine?

Answer 61

1942

Question 62

When was Order No. 227 passed?

Answer 62

28th July 1942

Question 63

When was the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 63

23rd August 1942 - 2nd February 1943

Question 64

When did Operation Uranus begin?

Answer 64

19th November 1942

Question 65

When did Operation Little Saturn begin?

Answer 65

16th December 1942

Question 66

When was Red Army Day celebrated in Britain?

Answer 66

February 1943

Question 67

When was the Battle of Kursk?

Answer 67

5th July 2943 - 23rd August 1943

Question 68

When was the deportation of citizens in Chechnya to Siberia?

Answer 68

February 1944

Question 69

When was the Fourth Five Year Plan announced?

Answer 69

1946 until 1950

Question 70

When did the Dnieper Dam continue making electricity?

Answer 70

1947

Question 71

When was the first Soviet atomic bomb tested?

Answer 71

1949