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Stalin Flashcards

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Stalin in Power

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1927-53

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First Five Year plan and Collectivisation

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1928-9

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Holodomor

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1932-3

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Famine

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1932-4

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NKVD

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1934

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The Great Terror/Purges

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1934-40

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New constitution (Stalins constitution)

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1936

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The Winter War

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1939-40

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Great Patriotic War

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1941-5

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NKGB replaces NKVD

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1943

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MGB and MVD formed replacing NKGB

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1946

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Censorship tightened

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1946

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Leningrad Purge

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1949

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Discovery of Doctors plot announced

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1953

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Name the people who struggles for power after Lenins death

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Trotsky (left) 
Stalin (moved around but left) 
Zinoviev (left) 
Kamenev (Left) 
Bukharin (right)
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16
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What controller industry?

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Gosplan

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What were the first 3 five year plans designed to do?

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Catch up with major powers in industry

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What were the 4-7th five year plans designed to do?

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Recover from war and expand beyond industry

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We’re the five year plan a success?

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Yes

Russia now one of the major powers

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What was Holodomor?

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Ukraine genocide
Grain and good taken from Ukraine to feed Russia
Result of five year plans

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How many people died during Holodomor?

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Between 2.5 and 7.5 million died

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How many people died during the 1932 famine?

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Around 5 million

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How many people were arrested in the Great Terror?

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1 in 8

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What was the stalin constitution?

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Formation of USSR

Rights to work and health benefits

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What was the winter war?

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War between Russia and Finland

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Why was the great patriotic war?

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Protection of Russia against Germany in ww2

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What was the Leningrad purge?

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Series of fabricated purges for Stalin to assert authority and remove key Communist figures he saw as a threat

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What was Comecon?

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An ecenomic organization led by the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc

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What was the doctors plot?

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Anti-sematism campaign by Stalin eliminating key Jewish figures

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30
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Sino-Soviet friendship treaty

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1950

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31
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How many people died under Stalin?

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50 million

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32
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How may died in 1932 famine?

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around five million

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Who was the Winter War between?

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Russia and Finland

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Formation of Comecon

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1949

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Famine in Ukraine

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1946-7

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36
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MGB and MVD merged into MVD

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1953

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37
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Beria executed

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1953

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38
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Who was kicked out if Comecon?

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Yugoslavia

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39
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Nazi Soviet pact

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August 1939

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40
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Number of deaths during Katyn massacre

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4231

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41
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How many died 1918-1921

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8 million

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42
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Structure if gov. changes under Stalin

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1936 constitution and rge USSR

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43
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Three parts of the USSR

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Supreme Soviet of the USSR (Sovnarkom) given sole powers to make laws. Divided into two houses

1) Soviet of the Union - members elected every 4 years
2) Soviet of nationalists - consisting of 25 members per union Republic, 11 members per autonomous Republic, 5 members o33 automous region and 1 per national area

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Steps if collectivisation 1929

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1) principles explained to villagers at meetings
2) villagers recruited to seek out kulaks
3) incentives offered e.g tractors
4) either formation of kolkhozy or sovkhozy farms

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March 1980 Stalin claim

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58% of households were collecticised

Gross exaggeration

46
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Effect of collectivisation on Nationalities

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Migration e.g in Kazakhstan populations moved to China - population fell by 75% in a few years

47
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1941 collector figure

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98% of all peasants worked on collectives

48
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Result of collectivisation

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Famine 1941

49
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What was the body responsible for economic output

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Gosplan

50
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Outline how industry was more about meeting targets than quality

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1) gosplan set a target
2) each region told their target
3) region set target for industry locally
4) manager set target for foreman
5) foreman set target for each worker per shift

51
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Second five year plan enterprises

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4500 new enterprises

52
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Success of five year plans

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Coal moved up from 64.3 - 128m tonnes

53
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Example of Stalin lying

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Stakhanovite movement

Stalin made up figures and reported it to the world

54
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Examples of the Terror

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1938 Communist meeting - clapped for 11 mins. Paper factory owner stopped - sent to camp for ten years
1938, Bukharin pleeds guikts in a show trial despite being innocent

55
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Shakhty trials 1928

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50 people arrested or put on trial for supposedly spying in mines
11 sentenced to death
Criminal offense to produce poor quality goods

56
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Social impact of war

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27m plus Russians killed - 2/3 civilians
1m alone dies during Leningrad
1.1m casualties due to battle of Stalingrad

57
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Example of military rewards after ww2

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Communist party increased from 3.76m in 1942 to 5.8m in 194

Rise due to military who were rewarded with party membership

58
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Example of Stalin being self concerned post ww2

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Georg Zhukov, deputy supreme commander of military through ww2
Figure head of army under Stalin
Sacked after ww2 and banished

59
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Tdumab and the Marshall plan

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Gave over 12billikn dollars in economic aid to rebuilt europe
Russia sees it as America buying the world in Capitalism

60
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Response to Marshall plan

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Comecon

Groups all Communists together against Capitalism

61
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Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship and alliance

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1950
Provides a 300m dollar loan to 4h3bpoeples Republic of China
Strong relationship under Stalin

62
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Soviet Union of writers

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1934
Convince writers they must struggle for socialist realism
Set of guidelines

63
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Stains cult of personality

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Stains picture appeared everywhere

Every newspaper book and film

64
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Komsomol

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Youth movement open to those aged 14-28
Membershio compulsory
Grew from 2m members in 1927 to 10m members in 1940

65
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Result of education reforms

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1929-1940 number or children affending school rose 12m-35m
1939 schooling for 8-14 year old had become universal
1926-39 the literacy rate for the population over the age of nine increased from 51%-88%

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Stains policy on family

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‘a poor husband and father, a poor wife and mother, cannot be a good citizen’
Mothers with multiple children declared ‘heroines of the Soviet union’

67
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How did Stalin justify his power

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Superstructure had to be under total control of one individual to prevent infighting

68
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Nationalities representation under Stalin

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Soviet if Nationalities

All Nationalities had a voice

69
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How many people sent to Gulags

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40m

70
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How many members of the NKVD purged by ww2?

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20000

71
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Intensity of renewed collectivisation

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50% of all peasants brought together in Kolkhozys increasing to 93% in 1937
98% of all peasant households worked on collectives by 1941

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Famine 1932-4

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Most disastrous
Death penalty for stealing grain shit for eating corn
Discussion of food crisis banned1

73
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Effect of ww2 on collectivisation

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Relaxed

Food production rose

74
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Pupils attending secondary schools under Stalin

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1931=2.5 million

1932 = 6.9 million

75
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Housing condition under Stalun

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Poor
25% of population living in a single room accommodation
Living space fell from 8.5m2 in 1905 to 5.8m2 by 1935
Allocated space rather than rooms
Over 25million Russians made homeless during ww2

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Stalin and Poland

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Nazi non-aggression pact meant S.U would not interfere with Germany attempts to invade Poland
Polish gov fled to London
Yalta = London Poles abandoned and new boarders
Imposition of a Soviet Style constitution and Renamed the people’s Republic of Poland

77
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Stalin and Ukraine

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Heavily impacted by collectivisation e.g holodomor

Post ww2 accused of being Nazi collaboraters an transported

78
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Stalin and Finland

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Finland refused Russian military bases ww2
Stalin ordered to bomb Helsinki
Sparker winter war nov. 1939 - March 1940
Finland ceded - balyic States became part of USSR summer 1949
Treaty of friendship 1948

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Czehoslovaki and Stalin

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New gov. Developed trade from Marshall Plan
Communists took advantage of losing control and set up trade unions
Coup resulting in resignation of all non communist members
Made the iron curtain - formation of nato - cold War

80
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Stalin and Yugoslavia

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Tito objected to over centralisation

Expelled from Comniforn 1848

81
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Early ww2

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Nazi Soviet pact 1939 but peace never likely
June 1941 began to invade
27 m Russians killed 2/3rds civilians

82
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How many farms collective by 1939

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60%

83
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Example of peasant opposition to collectivisation

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1929-30, 30000 arson attacks and organised mass disturbances increased by 1/3rd
Many peasants slaughtered animals rather than hand then to collectives
March 1939 massive peasants rebellion

84
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Who were Stalin rivals in the fight for leadership?

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Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin

85
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What prompted the move towards mass collectivisation?

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Famine 1927-8

86
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Methods of dekulakisation

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Komsomols and plenipotetiaries visited kulaks
Houses were stripped and they were sent to concentration camps or shot
30000 kulaks shot

87
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Response to mass collectivisation by peasants

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Wide spread opposition

Migration

88
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Failures of five year plans

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Consumer industries neglected = discontent

Production rose but not to meet over ambitious targets

89
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What event halted the progress if the five year plans?

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Ww2

90
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Example of success of five year plans

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Pre war production levels met in 3 years

91
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How many people sent to Gulags under Stalin?

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40 million

92
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When we’re the purges? Who was purged

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1934-9
Political opponents
The army
The people
The NKVD
93
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Economic impact of ww2

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Physical damage by shells and ‘scorched earth’ tactic

Factories relocated to the East - not the best areas for organisation

94
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Failures of Stalin post war economic strategy

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Agriculture suffered through neglect
Famine 1947
Faikure in continuing to invest in grand schemes that had little economic return

95
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What was Comniforn and why was it introduced?

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Response to the ideological war with the US

Grouped all communist states together v capitalism

96
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Stalin and the Jews

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Jewish doctors plot = campaign of antisemitim launched

15 Jewish leaders tried and executed

97
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Example of Stalin propoganda slogan

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‘the greatest genius of humanity’

98
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Names of propoganda newspapers

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Pravda and Zvestiya

99
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Stalin and schools

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10 years education compulsory
State-prescribed textbooks
1926-39 literacy rate was up from 51% to 88%

100
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Stalin and religion

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Organised attack of religion under Lenin renewed
Priests publicly humiliated by having to carry out demeaning tasks
During the great terror, 800 higher clergy and 4000 Priests were imprisoned
During wartime, orthodox liturgy used to provide spiritual and emotional uplift

101
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Cause of holodomor

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Stalin wanted to starve Ukraine into agreeing to Collective farms

102
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How many Ukrainians killed in holodomor?

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7 million

103
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Collective farms

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Kolkhozy and Sovkhozy

104
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Stalin constitution and Nationalities

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Supposedly allowed greater representation

In theory gave the right of members to secede from the Union

105
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Stalin in Poland

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Potsdam agreed to a Communist Polish gov. Would he introduced
1952 Poland officially Renamed the people Republic of Poland

106
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When did Ukraine get full Republic status?

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Stalin constitution 1936

107
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Inside opposition to Stalin

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The United opposition group

Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev

108
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Comecon

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1949

109
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Cominform

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1947

110
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How many members of the NKVD were purged?

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30 000

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