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| 1 | When was Stalin born? |
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1879 |
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1883 |
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1870 |
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1875 |
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| 2 | What does 'Stalin' mean? |
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Man of Steel |
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Miner |
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True Communist |
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Man of Iron |
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| 3 | What did Stalin train to be before joining the Bolshevik party? |
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A steel worker |
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A priest |
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A miner |
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A banker |
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A teacher |
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A farmer |
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| 4 | What position did Stalin hold in 1917? |
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Chief photo manipulator |
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Head of Propaganda |
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Deputy to Lenin |
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Party Leader |
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Editor of Pravda |
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| 5 | Why did Stalin take the position of Party Secretary in 1922? |
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Other leading Bolsheviks had turned it down |
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In the democratic and fair party elections, Stalin was voted the new secretary by a small majority |
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He was the most popular choice |
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| 6 | What did Stalin use the post of General Secretary to do? |
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Gain respect and enhance his reputation within the party |
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Hoard as much money as possible without anyone noticing |
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Find out everything that was going on and fill all posts with his supporters |
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| 7 | In 1922, Lenin wrote a 'political testament' - what two suggestions did this make? |
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Everyone should read Animal Farm, as it was a great book |
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Trotsky should be the next leader, and senior Bolsheviks should find a way to get rid of Stalin |
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Communism had been a failure, and the country should adopt Social Democracy |
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| 8 | After Lenin died in 1924, why was the 'political testament' not published? |
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Stalin made sure it was 'lost' |
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Lenin was declared insane, so his writing was deemed worthless |
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Bolshevik leaders didn't want Trotsky as their leader - he was so unpopular |
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| 9 | Between 1924 and 1929 how did Stalin managed to force leading Bolsheviks out of power? |
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Using his previous newspaper experience, 'revelations' were published destroying the reputations of his rivals |
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He sided with one group, and then another, gradually isolating the other leading Bolsheviks |
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Unfortunate 'accidents' and 'tragic incidents' befell Stalin's rivals |
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| 10 | When did Russia become the Soviet Union? |
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October 1927 (10 year anniversary) |
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The name was used by 1929 |
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February 1927 |
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1928 |
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| 11 | Who was Stalin's main target for 'removal from power'? |
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Kamenev |
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Bukharin |
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Trotsky |
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Zinoviev |
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| 12 | When Stalin had control of the Soviet Union, what did he immediately do? |
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Improved communications |
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Implemented a police state |
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Commenced rearmament |
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Began to change agriculture and industry |
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| 13 | Stalin ended Lenin's NEP and began to force all peasants to join Collective Farms - what were these? |
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Peasants had to pool their machinery and livestock on large farms, which were controlled by the State |
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Peasants had to collect all their crops by hand and send half the profits to the local town hall |
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A specific quota for production was set, and if any peasant failed to produce the quota they were shot |
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| 14 | Kulaks, richer peasants, were totally opposed to Stalin's poicy - what happened? |
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Kulaks burnt their crops and killed their animals rather than hand them over - more than 5 million Kulaks were murdered or starved to death |
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They all signed a petition that was delivered to Stalin. He then decided to alter his policy |
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Kulaks tried to resist, but saw that it was futile to do so. They agreed to go along with Stalin's policy. |
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| 15 | What was the problem with Collective Farms? |
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The farmers never produced as much working together as they did working on their own - a devasting famine was the result |
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The peasants didn't follow orders properly - many peasants hid produce and a black market grew and grew - resulting in a devastaing famine |
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Peasants were forced to hand over their produce and were either paid wages or had to feed themselves on what was left over - the result was a devastating famine |
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| 16 | How successful was Stalin's agricultural policy between 1932-1934? |
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5,000,000 people starved to death and agicultural production fell by 15% |
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Many people died, but agricultural production rose by over 27% |
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After inital problems with the Kulaks, production rose by 13% and moral in the USSR had never been higher |
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| 17 | Collectivisation was part of what? |
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An enormous disaster |
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Stalin's general economic policy (GEP) |
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The first Five Year Plan |
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| 18 | What was each business or factory given under the Five Year Plan? |
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10% of the profits the factory or business made |
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Enormous publicity and large bribes if it topped the production tables |
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A target it had to meet every year |
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| 19 | What was 'Gosplan'? |
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A general plan made applicable to all aspects of industry and agriculture of the Soviet Union |
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An organisation with 500,000 workers who did nothing but produce and check targets for every factory and works |
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A new city developed near Siberia for the development of new weapons technology to help the USSR develop greater capability that their rivals. |
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| 20 | What was done to the first Five Year Plan to make people work even harder? |
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The length was doubled - it became a ten year plan |
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It was cut to four years |
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It was lengthened to six years |
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