Stalin's USSR

Question 1

Who negotiated the treaty of Brest-Litvosk?

Answer 1

Trotsky

Question 2

When did Lenin die?

Answer 2

21 January 1924

Question 3

what was the comintern?

Answer 3

(Communist International)
Organisation that tried to spread communism in other countries

Question 4

What did all artists and filmmakers have to follow?

Answer 4

Socialist Realism, a style of art whose aim was to praise Stalin’s rule and generally invovled heroic figures working hard in the fields or factories

Question 5

What was the organisation established to review publications for censorship purposes?

Answer 5

RAPP- Russian Association of Proletarian Writers

Question 6

What is a cult of personality? (or cult of the leader)

Answer 6

When a country’s techniques of mass media, propaganda, patriotism, spectacle, government-organised rallies and demonstrations create an idealised, worshipped image of a leader through unquestioning flattery and praise

Question 7

When was Trotsky murdered?

Answer 7

1940

Question 8

What were the Show Trials also known as?

Answer 8

The Moscow Trials

Question 9

What were the Show Trials?

Answer 9

Trials where loyal Bolsheviks confessed to being traitors

Question 10

How many Bolshevik party members were arrested in the Show Trials?

Answer 10

over 500,000

Question 11

When was Kamenev’s show trial?

Answer 11

1936

Question 12

When was Zinoviev’s show trial?

Answer 12

1936

Question 13

When was Bukharin’s show trial?

Answer 13

1938

Question 14

What was the state of religion in 1939?

Answer 14

ILLEGAL
1 in 40 churches held regular services
7 active bishops
Between ‘17 and ‘39 number of mosques decreased from 26,000 to 1,300

Question 15

When was Kirov’s assasination (and the start of the purges?)

Answer 15

1934

Question 16

Why was Kirov assasinated?

Answer 16

for getting more claps than stalin in a meeting

Question 17

When did the Great Terror peak?

Answer 17

1937

Question 18

How many army officers were eliminated?

Answer 18

25,000

Question 19

how many people were transported to labour camps?

Answer 19

18 million

Question 20

how many people died in the purges?

Answer 20

10 million +

Question 21

What were the names of the workers who exceeded production levels?

Answer 21

Stakhanovites

Question 22

How much coal was Alexei Stakhanov supposed to have produced in how much time?

Answer 22

102 tons in 6 hours (one shift)

Question 23

What were the rewards for working harder?

Answer 23

better pay, housing and free holidays

Question 24

What were labour books?

Answer 24

records of each worker’s jobs and any unfavourable remarks. Bad reports could lead to imprisonment or loss of food

Question 25

What did internal passports do?

Answer 25

restricted workers' movements so they couldn't move around the country looking for higher wages

Question 26

what did the first five-year plan focus on?

Answer 26

coal, steel and iron "new" industries like chemicals, rubber and machines Spurred on by war fear

Question 27

What are the main achievements of the first five-year plan?

Answer 27

workforce doubled new industry in Kazakhstan, far from the west. towns like magnitogorsk created from scratch

Question 28

What are the negatives of the first five year plan?

Answer 28

textile production declined housing&consumer goods neglected. 1/2 the tractors broke

Question 29

What time period did the first Five-year plan span?

Answer 29

1928 - 32

Question 30

What time period did the second Five-year plan span?

Answer 30

1933-37

Question 31

What time period did the third Five-year plan span?

Answer 31

1938 - 41 (cut short due to war. i think)

Question 32

What were the key aims of second Five-year plan?

Answer 32

more consumer goods crackdown on religion women encouraged to work

Question 33

what were the successes of the second five-year plan?

Answer 33

rationing ended weapon production trebled spectacular growth in coal and chemical industries

Question 34

what were the failures of the second Five-year plan ?

Answer 34

oil production "remained dissapointing"

Question 35

By when was Stalin undisputed party leader?

Answer 35

1929

Question 36

How many Red Army Officers were removed?

Answer 36

25,000 (one in five)

Question 37

What were the names of Stalin's prison camps?

Answer 37

Gulags

Question 38

What was the name of Stalin's secret police?

Answer 38

the NKVD

Question 39

When was Stalin born?

Answer 39

1879

Question 40

What was Stalin's original name?

Answer 40

Iosif Dzhugashvalli

Question 41

What were the names of the large joint farms that peasant joined up to make?

Answer 41

kolkhoz

Question 42

What were the names of the stations that provided tractors?

Answer 42

MTS- motor tractor stations

Question 43

What precentage of kolkhoz produce would be sold, and what percentage used to feed the kolkhoz?

Answer 43

90 to sell, 10 to feed

Question 44

What was the name of the state planning organisation that set targets for each region?

Answer 44

GOSPLAN

Question 45

What were the aims of the third five year plan?

Answer 45

Focused on household+luxury items (bikes, radios, etc) war approached: now heavy industry + armaments became the focus

Question 46

What policy did Stalin order during the Second World War?

Answer 46

Scorched earth

Question 47

What did the Soviets call World War 2?

Answer 47

The Great Patriotic War

Question 48

How many Russian Jews did the Einsatzgruppen shoot in WW2?

Answer 48

2.5 million

Question 49

Why did the third five-year plan experience problems

Answer 49

-disrupted by war -many senior officials purged

Question 50

Why was the Stakhanovite campaign dropped?

Answer 50

some Stakhanovites beaten by fellow workers

Question 51

What medals were the Stakhanovites awarded?

Answer 51

"order of lenin" "hero of the soviet union"

Question 52

What were the failures of the first five year plan? (4)

Answer 52

too ambitious lies abt production housing,textiles, consumer goods ignored

Question 53

how many tractors were produced in the first five year plan?

Answer 53

50,000

Question 54

how many tractors was the first five year plan meant to produce?

Answer 54

170,000

Question 55

Why did the ussr nearly lose the war in 1941?

Answer 55

stalin wouldn't give the order to fight back

Question 56

What is a command-economy?

Answer 56

economic system controlled by the gov opposite of a free market economy where prices+production are controlled by the market