Economy 1917-85

Question 1

Decree on Land

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

State Capitalism

Answer 2

March-June 1918

Question 3

War Communism

Answer 3

1918-21

Aim: combat economic problems of Civil War

Question 4

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 4

1921-28

Aim: revive economy and keep political control

Question 5

Scissor Crisis

Answer 5

1923

Agricultural prices fell while industrial increased

Question 6

Stalin emergency economic measures end NEP

Answer 6

July 1928

Question 7

First 5-year plan

Answer 7

October 1928

Question 8

Compulsory collectivisation of Soviet farms

Answer 8

December 1929

Question 9

Great famine

Answer 9

1932

Question 10

4th 5-year plan

Answer 10

December 1945

Question 11

Virgin Lands Scheme

Answer 11

September 1953

Cultivate lands not used before

Question 12

Sovnarkhoz reforms

Answer 12

February 1957

Regional Economic Soviets who managed separate economic regions

Question 13

Corn Campaign

Answer 13

September 1958

Aimed to increase corn output based on US farms

Question 14

K’s 7-year plan

Answer 14

January 1959

Question 15

K divides party into agriculture and industry

Answer 15

February 1962

Question 16

Kosygin reforms introduced and scrapped

Answer 16

January-August 1968
Judge managers by profit, not quantity
Take money from inefficient collectives and give to light industry

Question 17

Andropov anti-corruption campaign

Answer 17

November 1982