Bolshevik consolidation of power
Land decree, attack on the Church, measures for female equality, new calendar, changes to the Russian alphabet, changes in armed forces, peace decree...
An economic policy designed to help the Soviet economy recover from 1921.
New Economic Policy.
Who was Secretary General of the Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin.
The policy of putting people on collective farms.
Collectivisation.
Two famous figures found guilty of the murder of Sergei Kirov in the show trials.
Zinoviev and Kamenev.
The name for the new government after Bolshevik seizing of power.
Sovnarkom.
Leader of the Red Army and an advocate of fast revolution.
Leon Trotsky.
Who was murdered in 1934, sparking the Great Terror?
Sergei Kirov.
The eradication of the middle peasant class.
Dekulakisation.
Name one other group of people (other than leaders of the power struggle) targeted by Stalin's purges and terror.
Leaders of the Red Army, intellectuals and artists, foreign communists.
An agreement between the Bolsheviks and the Germans to end WW1.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The five member institution built into the government, which gives absolute voting rights.
The Politburo.
The organisation the evolved from the Cheka and would evolve into the NKVD.
The OGPU.
The name of the people inspired allegedly by a man who famously achieved 14 times his quota, shifting 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift.
Stakhanovites.
In what year did Stalin introduce a new constitution (after the purges)?
1936.
An economic policy designed to help the Bolsheviks during the Civil War.
War Communism.
Lenin's final document that revealed his true feelings about Stalin as potential leader of the USSR.
Lenin's Last Will and Testament.
The name for the complete embodiment of the nation and and development of Stalin as genius, father, and helmsman of the Soviet Union.
Cult of Personality.
The intentional starvation of Ukrainians in 1933-35.
Holodomor.
An extensive prison and labour camp established across the Soviet Union, often with terrible conditions.
A gulag.
The leader of the Cheka.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
The three people that made up the triumvirate in the Politburo from 1923.
Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev.
With whom did Stalin originally side with in the power struggle, before turning against them?
Zinoviev and Kamenev.
Programs designed to rapidly modernise Soviet industry and move from an agrarian country to a self-sufficient industrial one.
The Five Year Plans.
What year did Stalin's purges start?
1928.