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| 21 | What happened if Five Year Plan targets were not met? |
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If targets were not met, a new manager would be introduced who would put the factory on 'special measures', resulting in constant inspections, paperwork and meetings |
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Factories or businesses would simply be closed, and the workers would starve |
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Punishments were severe - managers of factories could be executed, workers were not allowed to change jobs and being away from work became a crime |
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| 22 | What happened if you objected to Stalin's methods? |
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Those who objected ended up in slave labour camps called Gulags, based in Siberia or Northern Russia. |
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You were expelled from the USSR in disgrace |
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If you objected, you were put to death - a simple choice: work or die. |
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| 23 | Many factories met the production figures easily - how was this? |
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The actual targets were fair and reasonable - if a factory was working properly it could easily meet the targets |
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So long as the numbers were right, nothing else mattered - many factories faked the figures or disregarded the quality of production |
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The targets set were randomly chosed - some factories got ridiculously easy targets while others got totally impossible targets |
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| 24 | The first three Five Year Plans ran from 1928-1941 - how successul were they? |
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Both agricultural and industrial production eventually increased, but at enormous cost in human life |
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They increased industrial production by 400%, but it is difficult to say how much of the increase is genuine |
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Terribly unsuccessful, production fell, the quality of finished product fell and moral fell - a disaster! |
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| 25 | Who was murdered in December 1934? |
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Zinoviev |
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Leon Trotsky |
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Sergei Kirov |
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| 26 | As a result of the murder, Stalin initated 'The Purges' - what were they? |
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A democratically elected authority to murder anyone who opposed the Soviet leader |
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A new healthy eating and fitness drive to cut heart disease |
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A means of removing any perceived opposition |
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| 27 | Who suffered as a result of 'The Purges'? |
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Bolshevik leaders, poets, scientists, managers of industries that failed to meet targets, senior officers in the Red Army and Red Navy, and ordinary citizens |
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Foreign citizens suspected of being spies, Tsarist supporters and terrorists. Each person suspected had to go through a long judicial process to make sure of their guilt |
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Anyone who had failed to follow orders and consequently found guilty in the independent courts of law |
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| 28 | As part of 'The Purges' what were leading Bolsheviks given? |
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'Show Trials' where they were forced to confess to ridiculous crimes which they could not possibly have committed |
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The chance to confess openly and fairly. If this was done they were then set free and given an official 'Stalin pardon' |
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A long 'holiday' in Siberia |
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| 29 | What was the 'Revision of History'? |
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Where Stalin introduced a two year plan to improve history results in schools |
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Where Stalin begain to rewrite the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century |
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Where Stalin set out the Communist plan to dominate the world and remove the evil of global capitalism |
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| 30 | What happened to school books as the result of the 'Revision of History'? |
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They were destroyed or altered, and children had to paste over pages in their books with new versions |
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School books became up to date, balanced and fair resources on revisionist history |
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They became well used as a result of all the extra work set by Stalin |
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| 31 | Why did Stalin introduce the 'Revision of History'? |
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We've already answered this - to improve history results in school |
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He wanted to destroy the reputations of the other Bolshevik leaders |
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He felt the version being taught in schools was not comprehensive enough - a pre-1900 foreign culture needed to be introduced |
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| 32 | Stalin picked on Trotsky in particular - why? |
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He hated him - simple as that |
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Lenin had chosen him as his successor |
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Trotsky was always causing trouble, and had written many anti-Communist books and articles |
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| 33 | Stalin wanted to make out that only he knew what Lenin had intended to do with Russia - why? |
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Stalin did know what Lenin intended to do with Russia - and he just wanted to get on with it |
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Stalin had had many conversations with Lenin before he died, but nobody believed him |
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This would help Stalin justify why he became leader and would make Russians accept him |
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| 34 | What did Stalin do to make it appear that he and Lenin were very close? |
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Had many paintings produced with them together, altered photographs so just he and Lenin were in them, and had Lenin's body preserved in a huge mausoleum in Red Square |
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Forced Lenin's family and relatives to write books and attend public rallies proclaiming that Lenin real chosen successor was Stalin - Trotsky had taken advantage of Lenin in his final days |
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Issued photos of himself and Lenin talking, planning and discussing Communist policy whilst at University in Brussels together |
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| 35 | What was the 'Cult of Personality'? |
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Where Stalin wanted to build himself up to be all-powerful and stop anyone opposing his ideas |
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An underground rival group to the Communists. They rose up in attempted revolution in 1937 but were viciously crushed by Stalin |
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A competition held each year to praise the Soviet worker who had put in the most effort, improved worker morale and had never been absent |
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| 36 | Stalin made sure everyone knew about his successes - what did he use to pass on the news? |
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Many forms of propaganda - but his favourite forms were paintings and sculptures |
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He ordered ten different 'independent' newspapers to be produced, each praising him from a different angle |
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Word of mouth - he forced factory managers to proclaim his brilliance in early morning breifings |
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| 37 | What happened to Leon Trotsky? |
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He moved from country to country, constantly on the run from Stalinist agents, and was eventually killed in an machine gun attack on his house |
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He was murdered by ice pick in the back in August 1940. The Soviet Union disclaimed any responsibility |
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After leaving the Soviet Union in 1929 he lived the rest of his days in Brazil quietly farming |
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| 38 | Stalin died in 1953 - what age did he live to? |
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63 |
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68 |
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73 |
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| 39 | What was Stalin's real name? |
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Joseph Vadrimittiv |
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Joseph Djugashvili |
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Jospeh Jdushgah |
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| 40 | Who murdered the most people? |
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Pol Pot |
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Stalin |
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Hitler |
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Mussolini |
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