Lenin and the succession of Stalin

Question 1

List the 5 main features of War Communism

Answer 1

1 Grain requisitioning
2 Rationing
3 Nationalisation of industry
4 Ban on private trade
5 Labour discipline

Question 2

A study in the 1920s found what % of Moscow prostitutes to be Bourgeois?

Answer 2

42%

Question 3

When was the failed assassination attempt on Lenin that prompted the Red terror?

Answer 3

30th August 1918

Question 4

While official records put the deaths at the hands of the Cheka between 1918-20 at 13,000, estimates put the figure at what?

Answer 4

500,000

Question 5

How many Kronstadt sailors were killed in the Tukhachevsky led counter-uprising in 1921? How many were executed by the Cheka in following weeks?

Answer 5

1 Over 10,000
2 2500

Question 6

List the 4 key features of the NEP

Answer 6

1 Grain requisitioning abolished
2 Ban on private trade removed
3 Small business reopened
4 State control of the commanding heights of the economy

Question 7

Which party congress was factionalism banned in?

Answer 7

10th

Question 8

Mass Bolshevik recruitment during the civil war saw the party membership peak at what?

Answer 8

730,000

Question 9

In 1921 how many Bolsheviks were purged or left the party?

Answer 9

220,000

Question 10

In 1921 how many Mensheviks were arrested for counter-revolutionary activities?

Answer 10

5000

Question 11

In 1921 a show trial of SRs saw how many leaders condemned as terrorists and how many executed?

Answer 11

1 34
1 11

Question 12

When was the politburo created?

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

From 1920-23 cereal production increased by what %?

Answer 13

23%

Question 14

By 1923 NEP men handled what fraction of retail trade?

Answer 14

3/4

Question 15

In 1913 Russia exported 12 million tons of grain. In the best years of the NEP that amount never even exceeded _____

Answer 15

3 million

Question 16

In 1927 how many inefficient wood ploughs were still in use?

Answer 16

5 million

Question 17

In the mid 1920s Russia’s divorce rate was how many times higher than Britain’s as the highest rate in Europe?

Answer 17

25 times higher

Question 18

A survey in the 1920s indicated what % of divorce cases were initiated by men?

Answer 18

70%

Question 19

Estimates put the tally of orphans in the 1920s at what?

Answer 19

7-9 million mostly under 13 year olds

Question 20

From 1921-23 the number of schools and pupils _____

Answer 20

Roughly halved

Question 21

How many priests were killed in the anti-Church campaign of 1922?

Answer 21

1215

Question 22

In a two year period the Petrograd ROSTA made how many propaganda posters for the bolsheviks?

Answer 22

Over 1000

Question 23

How many were involved in the re-enactment of the storming of the Winter palace in November 1920?

Answer 23

10,000

Question 24

How many cinema tickets were sold in 1928?

Answer 24

300 million