Stats + Quotes

Question 1

what did Stalin want to create in terms of communism?

Answer 1

“impregnable fortress of Communism.”

Question 2

what did Lenin do in terms of defining Leninism

Answer 2

“eschewed giving a definition” (Service)

Question 3

polling of Bolsheviks in first elections

Answer 3

Bolsheviks only poll @ 24% (25 Oct 1917)

Question 4

brest litovsk m/y

Answer 4

March 1918

Question 5

brest litovsk: Rus lost how much territory (fraction), how much reparation

Answer 5

• lost 1/2 european territory
• pay 6bil marks reparations

Question 6

harvest of 1918 success?

Answer 6

no, Harvest of 1918 less than 1/10th of 1916

Question 7

post-WAR COMMUNISM grain harvest increase

Answer 7

After WAR COMMUNISM: Grain harvest increased by over 10 mil tons 1921-1924

Question 8

times NEP were implemented

Answer 8

1921-1928

Question 9

Lenin charcterisation of NEP

Answer 9

“tactical retreat” - some random person

Question 10

Stalin ability to use position

Answer 10

As the Chairman of the Secretariat, and the only Politburo member in the Orgburo, he could promote his friends and dismiss opponents (Figes)

Question 11

similarities between leaders quote service

Answer 11

“Each… believed in the one-party… one-ideology state, … and terror” (Service)

Question 12

stalin’s tac… fle…

Answer 12

“tactical flexibility” - Kotkin

Question 13

Aims of Stalin’s 5YPs quote

Answer 13

“total centralization and state control” (service)

Question 14

canal

Answer 14

The 227 km White Sea Canal was Stalin’s “greatest propaganda success” (Figes), built with labor from 100k gulag inmates, opened 1933

Question 15

5 year plan timeline

Answer 15

5YP 1: 1928-1932, 2: 1933-1937, 3: 1938-1941

Question 16

White Sea Canal constraints

Answer 16

• made shallower due to cost + time constraints of 2st 5YP = 5YPs too fast + quantity > quality

Question 17

1932-1933 famine

Answer 17

up to 7 million people died, direct result of inefficient rationing + industrialisation

Question 18

collectivisation start

Answer 18

1928

Question 19

collectivisation success

Answer 19

early 1930s = 91% of agricultural land collectivized, but

Question 20

Stalin goal for socialism

Answer 20

create “future socialist utopia” - Figes

Question 21

party growth 1921-1930

Answer 21

The party grew by nearly a million between 1921-1930!

Question 22

when trial of 21? who killed?

Answer 22

1938 - RIP rykov, bukharin

Question 23

height of great terror years, how many people imprisoned/shot

Answer 23

37-38, 1.3 million imprisoned, half of these shot

Question 24

oil, gas, steel production almost ___ between which years

Answer 24

1928-1938: oil, gas, and steel production more than doubled

Question 25

grain harvest increase under 1st 5YP

Answer 25

grain harvest increased by 2 mil tonnes

Question 26

date of communist victories for cambodia, vietnam, laos (chronological)

Answer 26

Khmer Rouge 15 April 1975, Viet Cong 30 April 1975, December 1975