The leadership contest
Name fore main rivals of Stalin
Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin
How many 5 years plans were in the USSR before 1941?
3
What was the purpose of the gulags?
Free labour and fear
Who has started the cult of Personality, Lenin or Stalin?
Stalin
What were the main two differences in the political approach between Stalin and Trotsky?
NEP instead VS rapid industrialization
The global Revolution VS concentrate on developing communism within Russia.
Name at at least two reasons why Stalin decided to shift to the rapid industrialisation
1. To build the army to protect the USSR
2. To keep everything under his control
3. To take power from the peasants and give it to the workers. industrialisation would create many more members of the proletariat who would help secure the revolution
When had the terror been unleashed against the peasantry
1932-1933
How did Propaganda promote Stalin?
A caring father of the nation, the disciple of Lenin. By the 1950s he had reached almost godlike status
What support made Trotsky dangerous for Stalin?
The support of the Red Army
What was the name for the wealthy peasants?
the Kulaks
What even triggered the Great terror?
The murder of Sergei Kirov
What methods did Stalin use to promote himself?
Posters, Books, Movies, Cencorship
When did the 'ban on factions' emerge?
A law passed in 1921 and forbade the party from arguing over key points of policy
How many years behind the advanced countries was the USSR according to Stalin's speech of 1931?
50 or 100 years.
What does historian Stephen Cohen mean when he says: 'No-one was guilty so no-one was safe. Everyone was innocent, so everyone was vulnerable'.
Everyone could be a victim.
When did Stalin use the historical figures in propaganda and why?
During the Great Patriotic war and to apply to the national sentiment of the people, to encourage them to fight.
What made Stalin able to defeat his competitors?
1. Stalin's control of the Party through his role as Secretary Genera
2. Stalin's ability to manoeuvre between factions
3. None of the contesters took Stalin seriously until it was too late.
How did the peasants resist collectivization?
They did not follow the orders to plant or harvest, they killed the cattle instead of giving it to the kolkhozes.
How many victims of the Great Terror were there according to the Soviet archives?
Timothy Snyder writes, ‘The total figure [for deaths in the gulags] for the entire Stalinist period is likely between two million and three million. The Great Terror and other shooting actions killed no more than a million people, probably a bit fewer. The largest human catastrophe of Stalinism was the famine of 1930–1933, in which more than five million people died.’
Was Stalin berried in Mausoleum?
Yes.