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Political Structure
of the USSR

International
Impact
New Economic Policy
Stalin's Five Year Plan's Impact on the USSR
Respones to the USSR & how the USSR impacted minorities
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It is a Communist organizational doctrine that defines the methods of decision making and governance. It was conceived by Lenin and defined in his tract, "What is to Be Done?", written prior to the Russian Revolution. The doctrine was intended to ensure that the Bolshevik Party was an effective revolutionary organization.
What is Democratic centralism?
100
It was a meeting of Communist(revolutionary socialists) and reformist socialists (social democrats). Their divergent opinions and the rise of Bolshevism and communism under Lenin saw the majority of opposition socialist democrats killed in communist Russia.
What was the Zimmerwald conference?
100
He replaced the New Economic Policy for the Five Year Plan in hopes of saving money by avoiding buying over 250,000 tractors.
Why did Stalin abolish the New Economic Policy?
100
It concentrated on the development of these things.
What is iron, steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport?
100
It responded by firstly promoting individuality and cultural identiy to a large extent; which proved impossible later with the evident corroding of Russian centralised communism. They had no loyality to a regime in which most of the minorities were that of the soviet parties.
What was the Soviet response to the various minority groups that existed within its borders?
200
Adopted December 5, it repealed restrictions on voting, added universal direct suffrage, the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution, recognized collective social and economic rights, and provided for the direct election of all government bodies and their reorganization into a single, uniform system.
What is the Constitution of 1936?
200
It emerged from the three-way split in the socialist Second International over the issue of World War I. The right supported nationalism, the center supported pacifis,, and the left rejected both nationalism and pacifism.
What is the Third International?
200
He thought that "only by coming to an agreement with the peasants can we save the socialist revolution".
What was Lenin's motivation for the New Economic Policy?
200
This led to even more repressive measures being introduced
What happened in result of some workers not being able to cope with the pressure of having their work (in quantity) displayed on a large display boards?
200
The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion and its replacement with atheism.
How were religious groups impacted during Stalin’s rule as dictator of the USSR?
300
It is the executive committee for a number of communist political parties. In Trotskyist parties, it is the bureau of the Central Committee tasked with making day-to-day political decisions, which must later be ratified by the Central Committee; in the Marxist-Leninist states, the party informally leads the state.
What is a Politburo?
300
They are the conditions given by Lenin to the adhesion of the socialists to the Third International (Comintern) created in 1919 after the 1917 October Revolution. Most of the conditions revolved around the Communist International.
What are Lenin's Twenty-one Points?
300
It's production increased greatly. Instead of the government taking all agricultural surpluses with no compensation, the farmers now had the option to sell their surplus yields, and therefore had an incentive to produce more grain
How was agricultural production impacted from the New Economic Policy?
300
Stalin argued that this would help motivate the workers to work harder, and they would therefore get more income and eventually the wages of the workers would be balanced out.
Why were the wages of some workers riased, but others' stayed the same?
300
Their quality of life vastly improved. They were to be given an adequate, equal education, and legally had equal rights in employment
What impact did the Russian Revolutions and the creation of the USSR have on the status of women?
400
It is a strand of Marxist theorizing; like Darwinism, it threw away all notions of a monarchial rule, disallowed all notions of faith and references to anything spiritual. These philosophies were based solely on fact.
What is Dialectical Materialism?
400
They firmly believed that unless socialist revolution swept Europe, they would be crushed by the military might of world capitalism.
What did the Russian Bolsheviks believe?
400
It was justified by saying that it was a different type of capitalism. It insisted that this form of “state capitalism” was the last stage of capitalism before socialism evolved
How did Lenin justify the New Economic Policy?
400
If a worker was accused of trying to sabotage the Five Year Plan, by having a poor worker's record, this would happen.
Why would workers be shot or sent to work as forced labour on the Baltic Sea Canal or the Siberian Railway?
400
These people were forcibly resettled to Kazakhstan, Siberia and the Russian Far North
What impact did the creation of the USSR have on the Kulaks?
500
It was originally conceived by Karl Marx as a dictatorship by the majority class. It denotes the transitional socialist state between the capitalist class society and the classless communist society, in Marxism.
What does the dictatorship of proletariat do?
500
These parties went through splits on the basis of the adhesion or not to the new International.
How were European socialist parties impacted?
500
The New Econimc Policy allowed these things to happen.
What allowed some freedom of internal trade, some private commerce and re-established state?
500
Stalin demanded an increase by 1115%, 200% and 335% in those materials.
What was the percentage of increase of the following: coal, iron, and electric power (respectively).
500
All of these groups were killed in the Great Purge. (List 5)
What impact did the creation of the USSR have on the Politburo, most of the Central Committee, foreign communists who were living in the Soviet Union, numerous intellectuals, bureaucrats, and factory managers?