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At which conference did the US announce possession of an atomic weapon?

Potsdam

What did Stalin announce in 1946 and 1951 to reconstruct the economy?

4th and 5th Five Year Plans

Under which program had the US lent aid, food and raw materials to the USSR?

Lend-Lease program

Give on feature of Stalin's scorched earth policy.

destroy all infrastructure, forcible evacuation, ambush german soldiers

In what year did Stalin sign the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler?

1939

What led to Stalin's application for the Soviet Union to join the League of Nations in 1934?

German expansion

With which country did the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Rapallo with in 1922?

Germany

What anagram is used to refer to Stalin's secret police?

NKVD

In the cult of personality around Stalin, how was he often pictured?

White clothes, saviour/father, Lenin

Give one success of collectivisation.

peasant farmers taught basic literacy, production increased, communal access to tractors and equipment, internal passports

What was the aim of Stalin's 3rd Five Year Plan?

Strengthen SU military and industrial capabilities preparing for potential conflict

What phrase is used to describe Stalin;s move towards collective farming?

The Great Turn

What was the Politburo?

The political law making body of the Soviet Union

Apart from Stalin, name two other candidates for leadership after Lenin's death.

Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin

The NEP caused the regression of the Kulak class. True or False

False it led to their re-emergence

What year did Lenin announce the NEP?

1921

As part of War Communism, Lenin introduced Martial Law in 1921. True or False

True

How did Geographical implications help the Reds to win the Civil War?

Reds controlled key areas of railways, large population of major cities, white army had to move forces over large distances

During the Civil War, the Whites had experienced military leaders and controlled huge areas of Russia. True or False?

True

What is the Sovnarkom?

First government of Soviet Russia, cabinet of ministers who ran the country

The period of Dual power in Russia was the co-existence of which two organisations?

Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet

What was the name of the interim government set up after the collapse of the tsarist regime?

Provisional Government

Give one political, economic and social cause of the Russian Revolution 1917.

Military leadership, shortage of supplies, poor agriculture, poor living conditions,

Which Siberian monk caused more resentment of the Russian people towards the Imperial family?

Rasputin

Why did the prohibition of alcohol in 1914 cause problems in Russia?

Resented by peasants who brewed their own alcohol

What did the Fundamental Laws of 1906 allow the Tsar to do? (2 things)

Confirmed his powers of the Duma, rule independently, dissolve the Duma, change electoral system, appoint ministers

Give three causes of the 1905 Revolution

Russo-Japanese War, Bloody Sunday, peasant unrest, influence of revolutionary parties

Who became Tsar after Alexander III?

Nicholas II

By the late 1800s the position of the Tsar had become more religious. True or False

False - it had become more secular

Kulaks were the wealthiest peasants. True or False

True

Which heavy industries rapidly increased by seven-fold under Witte?

Iron and Steel

Who replaced Vysnegradsky as minister of finance in 1892?

Sergei Witte

With which country did Russia negotiate a valuable loan in 1888?

France

What term is used to describe the act of forcing citizens of the empire to think of themselves as Russian by enforcing the language and culture

Russification

Which of these is the correct answer to how Alexander II died?

Bomb attack, Second bomb attack, death

Bomb attack, fell out of carriage, death

Bomb attack, death

Was the 1877 Russo-Turkish War a success or failure for Russia?

Success

Which 1877 opposition group wanted to overthrow the Tsar through a peasant-led revolution

Land and Liberty

Give two reasons Russia lost the Crimean War

Inferior military tech, poor organisation, weak leadership/strategy, lack of resources

Give two arguments for Alexander II ending serfdom

rising population, not enough grain production, debt and violence from peasants, more peasants moving to cities

Which Tsar is associated with the modernisation of Russia?

Alexander II