Random Points Flashcards
What group set up the GKO?
Politburo
Example of how Nazi ideology was a disadvantage to Germans?
Policy to kill 75% and condemn rest to slavery in Belorussia produced one of the largest partisan units in the SU
By 1945, what fraction of the armed forces were communists
1/4
How many factories were transplanted from west to east?
Over 1500
How many wartime survivors were sent to the labour camps?
12 million
Two consequences of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lost area that produced 1/3 of its agricultural produce.
Russia lost 1/6 of its population.
What destroyed the Mensheviks?
Arrest of 5000 members for counter-revolutionary activity
What destroyed the SRs?
Group imprisoned and given show trials.
Accused of plotting to assassinate Lenin
Resulted in leaders condemned and the party outlawed
What did Trotsky publish during power vacuum and how did it benefit Stalin?
‘Lessons of October’
Spoke about how Zinoviev and Kamebev opposed Lenin on a number of issues
Did not mention Stalin
Youth organisation in the Stalinist era?
Komsomol
Percentage of USSR industrial capacity destroyed by WW2?
70%
Proportion of games left operational after WW2?
1/3
Amount of tv sets 1955
-> 1965?
1955- 495,000. 1965-365,500
What years did refrigerators double?
1955-58
Cattle amount in 1929 and 1945?
1929 - 67m
1945 - 47m
1955 - 65
Proportion of game left operational after scorched earth?
1/3
Underground society that spread dissident literature?
‘The Youngest Society of Geniuses’
1961, how many individuals were considered ‘hostile to the regime
130,000
What was Malenkov demoted to under K?
Director of HEP station in Kazakhstan
How many died in 1891-92 famine?
350,000+
When was there reforming legislation on factories?
1892-90
