Rise to Power
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union before Stalin?
Vladimir Lenin
What is the term for when propaganda is used to create immense admiration and pride of the leader?
Cult of Personality
What does N.E.P stand for
New Economic Plan
Identify 3 benefits that Soviet citizens gained
Free health service, paid holidays, free education, housing, maternity leave, pension
What is the Russian translation of 'Stalin'?
Steel. Man of Steel.
What did Lenin say about Stalin in his will?
unsure if he is capable of using unlimited authority with caution
too rude, disloyal, intolerable, impolite, incapable of succeeding Lenin
Name two branches of the secret police that enforced Stalin's rule
•1923 – 1934: OGPU
•1934 - 1946: NKVD
•1946 - 1954: MVD
•1954 - 1991: KGB
Give one example each for heavy industry and light industry
coal oil, iron, steel etc.
clothing, shoes, furniture etc.
What was The Holodomor?
also known as the Great Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Who abused child Stalin?
His father
Name 2 prominent figure of the Politburo that Stalin removed from power to become the new leader. There's answers.
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin
Why did Stalin Collectivise the farms?
•He wanted more food to feed the workers in industry.
•He needed a surplus of food to sell overseas to bring money into the country.
•He needed people to leave the land and go to work in industry.
•He wanted an excuse to destroy the kulaks, who believed in private ownership, not communism.
When did the first Five Year Plan start and end?
1928 - 1932
What policy did Stalin introduce in 1929 and say was a necessary response for collectivisation to succeed?
dekulakisation or liquidation of the kulaks as a class
How did Stalin get his facial scars?
Small pox
What were the years of Stalin's dictatorship?
from 1924 until his death in 1953.
How did Stalin remove political opposition throughout his rule as leader?
Who was Alexei Stakhonov?
model worker who exceeded his quote and used as propaganda
Where were Gulag's strategically placed?
Along planned railroads (to build them)
Near industry (forced labour)
In the freezing parts of the Soviet Union E.g. Siberia
In 1945 and 1948 Stalin was nominated for what Prize?
Nobel Peace Prize & was Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1939 and 1942.
Identify 3 strategies Stalin used to rise to power
Propaganda, Culture & censorship, Manipulation of Education, Control of Religion, The New Constitution of 1936, The secret police, The labour camps.
Identify 2 individuals that Stalin based his ideologies on?
Marxism (Karl Marx)
Leninism (Vladimir Lenin)
How did peasants respond to collectivisation and what did they do?
Resisted it and burnt crops/slaughtered animals
Fill in the blank:
The _____________________ was the largest single employer in all of Europe.
Gulag Administration
After the October Revolution Stalin lived in the Kremlin with who (2 answers)?
Lenin & Trotsky + more Bolsheviks