People
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WW2
Economy
Revolution
100

I am known for trying to bring "bread, land, peace" to the people

Lenin

100

This treaty ended Russia’s involvement in WWI in 1918.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

100

This battle in 1942–43 marked a turning point on the Eastern Front.

 Battle of Stalingrad

100

Lenin introduced this policy in 1921 to revive the economy.

NEP

100

 This rival socialist group opposed the Bolsheviks during the Civil War.

Mensheviks

200

My murder sparked the Purges 

Kirov

200

The name given to the failed 1917 offensive that further destabilized the Provisional Government?

June Offensive

200

This operation was Hitler’s code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Operation Barbarossa

200

 Stalin replaced the NEP with this system of economic planning.

Five-Year Plans

200

This 1918–1921 conflict followed the revolution and involved the Red and White armies.

Russian Civil War

300

This Bolshevik theorist argued for "permanent revolution"

Trotsky

300

The 1921 event that saw a rebellion by previously loyal sailors against Bolshevik repression

Kronstadt Rebellion

300

This city endured a 900-day siege during WWII.

Leningrad

300

The name given to the 1932–33 famine in Ukraine caused by forced collectivisation

Holodomor

300

The name of the dual power structure existed between March and October 1917

Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet /dual authority

400

 This Soviet official was instrumental in implementing Stalin’s purges through the NKVD.

Nikolai Yezhov

400

The 1929 event that marked the beginning of Stalin’s campaign against the kulaks

"Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class"


400

The 1943 battle that was the largest tank battle in history and a decisive Soviet victory

Battle of Kurs

400

The name of the industrial city was built from scratch as a symbol of Soviet modernisation under Stalin

Magnitogorsk

400

The name of the Bolshevik military organization that coordinated the October seizure of power

Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC)

500

Soviet general was credited with the defense of Moscow and later led the final assault on Berlin?

Zhukov

500
On this date a Lenin died. 


 21 January 1924

500

The 1941 Soviet policy involved destroying infrastructure to prevent German use during the invasion

scorched earth policy

500

The name of the Soviet campaign that used propaganda to encourage workers to exceed production targets

Stakhanovite Movement

500

The Marxist concept did Lenin reinterpret to justify a revolution led by a small elite party

 Dictatorship of the Proletariat