Pre-War - Opposition - Key Facts

Question 1

Number of engineers tried at the Shakhty Show Trial

Answer 1

53

Question 2

Number of engineers executed at the Shakhty Show Trial

Answer 2

5

Question 3

Name of the show trial that accused industrialists of sabotage

Answer 3

Industrial Party Show Trial

Question 4

Name of the show trial where British specialists were found guilty of wrecking

Answer 4

Metro-Vickers Show Trial

Question 5

Number of people the gulags housed in 1934

Answer 5

1 million

Question 6

Name of the informal group that had debated Stalin’s removal

Answer 6

Old Bolsheviks

Question 7

Name of the person that led the Ryutin Platform

Answer 7

Martemyan Kyutin

Question 8

Percentage of the Party branded as Ryutinites

Answer 8

18%

Question 9

Number of negative votes Stalin recieved at the 17th Party Congress

Answer 9

150

Question 10

Number of people arrested during the Kirov Affair

Answer 10

6,500 including Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 11

Number of Party members expelled as anti-Leninist

Answer 11

250,000

Question 12

Number of people found gulity in the Zinoviev and Kamenev show trial

Answer 12

16 with 160 accomplacies

Question 13

Number of the high command that were executed

Answer 13

512 out of 767

Question 14

Number of people on the ‘anti-Soviet’ arrest list

Answer 14

250,000

Question 15

Number of cases reviewed at the end of the Great Purges

Answer 15

1.5 Million

Question 16

Number of cases that were quashed at the end of the Great Purges

Answer 16

450,000

Question 17

Number of Party members executed

Answer 17

600,000