Stalin's legacy in the USSR- 1953

Question 1

What position was Russia in compared to the west?

Answer 1

-behind them in chemical and consumer industry.
-but some technological advancement- nukes

Question 2

When was the first nuclear bomb developed under Stalin?

Answer 2

1948.

Question 3

What was Stalin’s policy of terror becoming?

Answer 3

-un-useful- revolts in prision camps

Question 4

How had Stalin’s economic and agricultrual policies left the USSR?

Answer 4

-inefficient + low standard of living
-courts + management reluctant to enforce.
-absenteeism laws.

Question 5

What became illegal under Stalins’s 1940 laws (in relation to economy)?

Answer 5

-absenteeism + job changing.

Question 6

What was Stalin’s relationship with the west like when he died?

Answer 6

-poor- build up to the cold war

Question 7

Who Stalin left as his sucessor and why was this an issue?

Answer 7

-no provision
-decision making had rested on Stalin and few people around him.
-central commitee had not met in years- same with presdium.

Question 8

How long was the delay to the 19th party congress (showing decisons were resting on Stalin)

Answer 8

14 years.

Question 9

Who did Stalin eventually pass power to?

Answer 9

-the presdium of the communist party central commitee