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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