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0
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The third section was…

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The secret police under Alex II and Nick I

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1
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Emancipation of the serfs was in…

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1861

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2
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The French Revolution was in…

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1789

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3
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The Okhrana was…

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The secret police until 1917

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4
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An enlightened despot…

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Uses power in a good way

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5
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The Crimean war was between…

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1853-56

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6
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Alex II ruled from…

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1855-81

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7
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Alex II was nicknamed…

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The tsar liberator

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8
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Alex III ruled between…

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1881-94

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9
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Nick II ruled between…

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1894-1917

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10
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Lenin ruled between…

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1917-24

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11
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Stalin ruled between…

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1927-53

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12
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Khrushchev ruled between…

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1956-64

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13
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How many riots were there in the first year of the emancipation edict?

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647

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14
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How many serfs were freed in the emancipation edict?

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50 million

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15
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Who collected redemption payments?

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The Mir

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16
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When was the Zemstva created?

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1864

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17
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How many university students under Alex II?

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Rose from 3,600 to 10,000

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18
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The Peoples Will’s name in Russian?

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The Narodnaya Volya

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19
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Who assassinated Alex II?

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Hessia Helfman

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20
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What was Alex III called?

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The Tsar Repressor

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21
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What date was the statute concerning measures for the protection of state security and social order?

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1881

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22
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How many political executions under Alex III?

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44

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23
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How many decrees against Jews in 1881?

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600

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24
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Gold standard introduced?

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1897

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25
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Increase per annum in the 1890s?

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8%

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26
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Famines under Alex III?

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1891

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27
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Famines under Nick II?

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1897

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28
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What did Alex III do to university fees?

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x4

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29
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Who was Plehve?

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Interior minister, Russification

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30
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When was Kishinev?

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1903

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31
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How many were killed at Kishinev?

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49

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32
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Dates of the Russo-Japanese war?

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1905

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33
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Number of factories in 1908?

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22,600

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34
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How many proletarians in 1908?

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2.5 million

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35
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How many strikes in 1905?

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13,995

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36
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When was Bloody Sunday?

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1905

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37
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How many killed and injured on Bloody Sunday?

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200 killed, 800 injured

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38
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What did the October manifesto promise?

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A Duma, new freedoms, etc.

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39
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When were redemption payments halved and removed?

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Halved in 1906, removed in 1907

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40
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How many relocated under the Wager on the Strong?

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3.5 million

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41
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How many were killed by Stolypin’s necktie?

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2500

42
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What was the third Duma like?

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More reactionary and autocratic, they shrunk the franchise etc.

43
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What percentage of children of peasants and workers were at university in 1914?

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15-39%

44
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Who betrayed the revolution to the press but were forgiven by Lenin?

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Zinoviev and Kamiev

45
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Who was in charge of women’s policy under Lenin?

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Kollantai

46
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What countries were given self determination under Lenin?

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Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic States etc.

47
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What happened to industry and banks under Lenin?

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Nationalised

48
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How many troops from capitalist countries came into Russia during the civil war?

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200,000 troops from 14 nations

49
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There was an assassination attempt on Lenin in…

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August 1918

50
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How many died in the civil war?

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10,000,000

51
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Who were allowed in the Komsomol?

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15-23 year olds

52
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Who were allowed in the Young Pioneers?

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8-15 year olds

53
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How many years universal education was there under Lenin?

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9 years

54
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What was the great turn?

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Stalin abandoning the NEP for the FYPs (1928)

55
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When was collectivisation?

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1927-34

56
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What was dekulakisation?

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1929-31: quotas of kulaks to find in each region

57
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Who were the OGPU?

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Stalins secret police

58
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Who were the 25000ers?

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Urban party activists who helped revolutionise the countryside during collectivisation

59
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When was the Holdomor?

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1932-4

60
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How many killed in the Holodomor?

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7.5 million

61
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How many kulaks had been deported to Siberia or labour camps by the end of collectivisation?

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10 million

62
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When was the most intense part of the purges and what was it called?

A

Yezhovshchina - 1937-38

63
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The great purge was between…

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1934-9

64
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The 1st FYP was between…

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1928-32

65
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The 2nd FYP was between…

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1933-37

66
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The 3rd FYP was between…

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1938-41

67
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When were the three good years?

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1934-6

68
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What happened during the three good years?

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Pressure wasn’t so intense, food rationing ended, more disposable income

69
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What percentage of the Leningrad workforce were women in 1935?

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44%

70
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What was the quicksand society?2

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The FYPs created a transient society so workers were allowed to move freely between jobs, contributing to a destabilising effect of high labour turnover

71
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When was the Stakhanovite movement?

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1935

72
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By how much did electric power increase between 1913-40?

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25x increase

73
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Increase of coal production under the FYPs?

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5x increase

74
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Increase in iron and steel production under Alex II?

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3x increase

75
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Under the FYPs vodka production sunk by…

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2/3

76
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Who was Pavlik Morozov?

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Young Pioneer martyr and soviet hero who’d denounced his father in 1932

77
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The law of the seventh-eights?

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1932: 10 year sentence for stealing socialised property, eg corn, which was later changed to a death sentence

78
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When was the ryutin platform written?

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1932

79
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When was the ryutin affair and what happened?

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1934: ryutin and his supporters were arrested and Stalin ordered their execution, but politburo only expelled them

80
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When was the December decree?

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1934

81
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What was the December decree?

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Legalised the murder of anti-soviet elements, beginning the purge

82
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When was 00447?

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1937

83
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How many killed under Stalin?

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2.4 million

84
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What did ezhov and Stalin agree with 00447?

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200,000 arrests and 73,000 executions

85
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By how much was 00447 exceeded?

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9x

86
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What percentage of the population were non-Russian and what percentage of the victims of the terror were they?

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18% of the population but 37% of the victims

87
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Percentage of red army officers purged by 1938?

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80%

88
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When was the nazi soviet pact?

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1939

89
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When was operation Barbarossa?

A

1941

90
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What was operation Barbarossa?

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Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union

91
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How many German tanks were destroyed in the battle of Kursk?

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40% (2,900) in 3 days

92
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Who was Vasily Zaitsev?

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National hero during the war and the head of the sniper movement, killed 225 officers

93
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When was the secret speech?

A

1956, at the 20th party congress

94
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Number of churches under Kruschev fell from…

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20,000 to less than 8,000 between 1960-64

95
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Increase in farm output between 1953-8?

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8.5% increase

96
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How much more capital investment was made available per industrial worker than per able bodied collective farmer in 1958?

A

15x

97
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First notable failure of the virgin lands?

A

17 million ton grain short fall in Kazakhstan

98
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When was the Cold War?

A

1945-64

99
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When was the Cuban missile crisis?

A

1962

100
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When was the U2 incident?

A

1960

101
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When was the Russo-Japanese war?

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1904-5

102
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When was WW1?

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1914-17

Russia 1855-1964 (15 decks)

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