Revolution
City where Lenin seized power in 1917
What is Petrograd?
Lenin's will specifically said this person should not be leader
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Length of Stalin's plans to transform Soviet industry
What is 5 years?
Name given to the system of prison camps
What are gulags?
Lenin set up this organisation to spread communism around the world
What is Commintern?
Lenin's Minister of Foreign Affairs who was given charge of the Red Army
Who is Leon Trotsky?
Country where Trotsky was assassinated
What is Mexico?
Agricultural class that was liquidated by Stalin.
What are the Kulaks?
Name given to legal proceedings against revolutionary leaders who had 'betrayed' Stalin
What are show trials?
The first country that the Bolshevik government signed a trade deal with
What is Britain?
Stalin's role in early Bolshevik government
What is General Secretary?
Trotsky wanted 'Permanent Revolution' but Stalin wanted this instead
What is Socialism in One Country
Term for a collective farm
What is a kolkhoz?
Term used to describe Stalin's use of terror against the Soviet population
What is a purge?
Soviet foreign minister wo signed the non-aggression pact with Germany
Who is Vyacheslav Molotov?
Lenin led the Bolsheviks. This was the other communist revolutionary group.
What is the Mensheviks?
Name ONE member of the Right Opposition troika (you have three to choose from)
Who are Rykov, Tomsky and Bukharin?
The FIVE industries targeted by Stalin to drive industrialisation
What are electricity, oil, coal, iron and steel?
Stalin's loyal secret police, responsible for carrying out the Red Terror
What is the NKVD?
Stalin joined the League of Nations searching for this in the face of German aggression (2 words)
What is collective security?
Name given to early Bolshevik government - originally had 17 members
What is Sovnarkom?
Name ONE member of the Left Opposition troika (you have three to choose from)
Who are Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev?
Term given to people or groups that set out to break industrial production records
Who are the Stakhanovites?
The murder of this Stalin ally sparked the Red Terror
Who was Alexei Kirov?
TWO countries that the USSR signed a non-aggression pact with in the 1930s (you have four to choose from)
What are Germany, Poland, France and Czechoslovakia?