Words

Question 1

Edict?

Answer 1

Official order by a personal authority

Question 2

Land Captain?

Answer 2

Could override elections to the zemstvo and disregard its decisions. Could overturn court judgements

Question 3

What was Stravka responsible for?

Answer 3

All military planning

Question 4

What was the GKO responsible for?

Answer 4

Organisation and coordination

Question 5

What did the establishment of People’s Commissars do?

Answer 5

They supervised different sections of wartime production e.g tanks and guns

Question 6

What was the benefit of compulsory state orders?

Answer 6

Allowed changes to take place in a quick timeframe

Question 7

What was the Lend-Lease scheme of 1941?

Answer 7

$11b of aid provided by USA to USSR

Question 8

Comecon?

Answer 8

Promote economic cooperation and integration among socialist countries

Question 9

Cominform?

Answer 9

Facilitate communication and cooperation between the communist parties

Question 10

Name of those ‘willing to help’ Germans?

Answer 10

Hilfswillige

Question 11

Tamizdat?

Answer 11

Printing banned writings abroad

Question 12

Samizdat?

Answer 12

Reproduction and distribution of works that would not pass the censor

Question 13

Who published ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’?

Answer 13

Solzhenitsyn

Question 14

Who were classed as the burzhui?

Answer 14

Aristocrats, priests, merchants, landowners, officers

Question 15

What was the quote system?

Answer 15

A high proportion of working-class children were given places in secondary school