Stalinism
What is the name of these horrible labor camps that people were sent to and made to endlessly work without mercy?
What are the Gulags
What was the name of this nuclear disaster that was poorly handled by Gorbachev and has since made the area uninhabitable for 20,000 more years?
What is Chernobyl
What is the name of this group of people that were seen as too independent thus especially devastated from collectivization?
What are the Kulaks
What is this unpopular place called that lacked elevators and was a supposed solution to an ongoing housing crisis?
What is a Khrushchoby
The First Five year plan didn’t really take five years–four years, with Stalin claiming they had speedily achieved his goals of industrializing Russia. What was one of the tolls of this extreme industrialization?
What is the Great Famine
What was the name of the first woman in space, who achieved this in 1961?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova
Define what an especially hard working “Stakhanovite” is, and what is the name of the man who inspired the term?
Who is Alexei Stakhanov. A Stakhanovite was an extremely hard worker who raised worker quotas by doing so well
What were three of the labor reforms that Gorbachev initiated?
What is: (options)! giving people higher wages, shorter work week, updated retirement age, and longer holidays
What did Stalin aim to achieve in the countryside with the marginalization of “kulaks”? Did the Bolsheviks think well of his speediness in wanting this to occur, or rather did they want it to naturally arise?
What is class struggle in the countryside. The Bolsheviks thought he was rushing this process.
What is the name of the failed utopian city that was made especially for academic research and development?
What is Akademgorodok