Unit four

Question 1

Stalin + Lenin

Answer 1

Impressed - obeyed + organised party well
Disimpressed - Insult of Lenin’s wife + rudeness - urged removal of Stalin from position

Question 2

Party helping Stalin

Answer 2

Lenin’s enrolement - 1923
Increased proletariat membership (uneducated)
Loyal to persons promoted them to party - Stalin

Question 3

Stalin positions

Answer 3

Head of workers + Peasants inspectorate - oversee governments
General Secratory - 1922:
Power of Patronage
Personal files

Question 4

Attack on Factionalism

Answer 4

Could not oppose

Question 5

Permanent revolution

Answer 5

Trotsky

Question 6

Socialism in one country

Answer 6

Stalin

Question 7

Troika

Answer 7

Stalin
Kamenev
Zinoviev
Removed Trotsky as Commisar for War 1925

Question 8

United Opposition Group

Answer 8

Kamenev
Zinoviev
Trotsky
Oppostion to NEP - against Stalin
All removed from party
Trotsky - Kazakhstan 1927
- USSR 1929

Question 9

Propaganda

Answer 9

Cult of Personality
Stakhanovite movement
Cinema
Sport
Censorship

Question 10

Cheka removed?

Answer 10

1922 - Trotsky - too brutal

Question 11

OGPU

Answer 11

1924
Control of Bs
Instilled fear - not as brutal

Question 12

NKVD

Answer 12

1934 - dealt with oppositon to Stalin
Permanent fear / spying

Question 13

Show trials + Purges

Answer 13

Fear

Question 14

Collectivisation

Answer 14

End of private ownership
Work for wage
Allow gov surpluses - sold

Question 15

Kulaks

Answer 15

idea created by Stalin – holding back workers by keeping grain – keeping grain prices high to be rich

Question 16

De-Kulaklisation

Answer 16

Arrested / deported
Poorer attack richer
Land seized
Warning for refusal of plans

Question 17

Results of collectivisation

Answer 17

30,000 arson attacks
29-30 x2 rural demonstration
Repression increased
Migration
Official silence
Famine - 1921 - 14m+ dead

Question 18

Industrialisation

Answer 18

Stalin creating a war economy – prepping for war with Capitalist enemies
Gosplan created a series of 5-year plans – 5 in total

Question 19

1st Year Plan Date

Answer 19

October 1928 – December 1932

Question 20

Good 15YP

Answer 20

Electricity production x3
Coal + Iron production x2
Steel production x1/3

Question 21

Bad 15YP

Answer 21

Chemical targets not met
Lying figures
Peasants in factories - low quality

Question 22

2/3 5YP Dates

Answer 22

January 1933 – December 1937
January 1938 – June 1941

Question 23

2/35YP good

Answer 23

1937 – self-sufficient in machine making / metal production
Defence + armaments increased rapidly
Transport system improved
Industry of 1st Plan continued + improved
More realistic targets

Question 24

2/35YP bad

Answer 24

Lack of coordination – over in some areas / underproduction in others
Spare parts for machinery hard to require – long time to fix
Hording of raw materials / poor allocation – fear
Purges caused a shortage in skilled workers

Question 25

Purge tolls

Answer 25

1/8 pop arrested
29m arrested
15 million died