Lenins New Communist Government

Question 0

Communism?

Answer 0

Makes everyone equal

Question 1

What is the new name of Russia?

Answer 1

Union of soviet socialists republic (USSR)

Question 2

What was the problem with war communism?

Answer 2

Workers stopped producing grain and machines
They knew Lenin would take everything
5 million Russians starved to death

Question 3

What was the solution to war communism?

Answer 3

New economic policy

Question 4

Wht was the purpose of the new economic policy?

Answer 4

To improve the USSR economy

Question 5

What was stated in the new economic policy

Answer 5

Small businesses could be reopened and peasants held on to small pots of land

Question 6

What did Lenin want?

Answer 6

Total communism

Question 7

After lenses dies who want to tKe power?

Answer 7

Trotsky and Stalin

Question 8

What were Trotsky’s beliefs?

Answer 8

Wanted to stay true to lemons ideas and wanted to ease into communism

Question 9

What did Stalin want to do?

Answer 9

He wanted to build a strong communists nation in the USSR and wanted this in 5 years

Question 10

Who is the new ruler?

Answer 10

Stalin

Question 11

How did Stalin take power?

Answer 11

Appointed his closest friends to top positions
Voted Trotsky out of Bolsheviks
Trotsky fled the country

Question 12

What wa the purpose of statins five year plan?

Answer 12

Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union (USSR) into an industrial power within five years

Question 13

How was the five year plan going to work?

Answer 13

By creating communism

Question 14

Did the five year plan for industry work?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

What was the five year plan for industry?

Answer 15

Bonuses were awarded to anyone who met high goals, but the goals were set to high for anyone to achieve them, so managers started to forge books to make it look like high production. Wages remained low and the product being produced was very low quality

Question 16

Five year plan for agriculture?

Answer 16

Stalin forced peasants give all land to government, peasants were allowed to keep their house and belongings but farm animals and equipment were government property.

Question 17

Does the five year plan for agriculture work?

Answer 17

No

Question 18

What did the government do to help during the five year plan for agriculture?

Answer 18

1. Set all prices for goods
2. Teach Russians how to farm
3. Give them best seeds and machinery

Question 19

How do the peasants fight back?

Answer 19

Destroy farm machinery
Destroy crops
Killing animals

Question 20

How did Stalin fight back?

Answer 20

Destroyed kulaks
Sent rebelling peasants to labor camps
Starved the peasants to death as punishment

Question 21

What are kulaks?

Answer 21

Wealthy peasants

Question 22

What are collectives?

Answer 22

Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group