2.2

Question 1

New Economic Policy

Answer 1

program instituted by Lenin for a temporarily more capitalism-oriented economic policy

Question 2

superpower

Answer 2

very powerful and influential nation in the world

Question 3

totalitarian state

Answer 3

state with a centralised government that is dictatorial and controls every part of people’s lives

Question 3

Five-Year Plan

Answer 3

Stalin’s plan to industrialise the Soviet Union over five years

Question 3

collectivisation

Answer 3

forceful joining of agriculture into huge state farms

Question 4

kulak

Answer 4

peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour

Question 5

Great Purge:

Answer 5

period of repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s

Question 6

Gulag forced labour camps:

Answer 6

system of forced labour camps in which opponents of the Soviet Union were imprisoned and many people died

Question 7

cult of personality:

Answer 7

excessive public admiration for or devotion to a famous person