Economy and Society, 1929-1941

Question 1

What was the Great Turn

Answer 1

The move from NEP to Collectivisation

Question 2

As a consequence of the Great Turn which group within the Party did Stalin defeat

Answer 2

The Bukharinists

Question 3

What did the Great Turn commit the USSR to doing

Answer 3

A programme of Rapid industrialsation and mass mobilisation of workers

Question 4

By forcing individual farms into collective farms by how much was grain production planned to increase

Answer 4

By 50% over the course of the first 5 year plan

Question 5

What were 3 aims of the first

Answer 5

• Eradicate “class enemies” in the countryside (the kulaks)
• Make farming in the USSR socialist rather than capitalist
• Replace the NEP with true Marxist-Leninist theory

Question 6

In 1929 what speech did Stalin make to the party congress

Answer 6

“War against the Kulaks” speech

Question 7

In 1930 what policy was there a temporary return to

Answer 7

Voluntary Collectivisation

Question 8

In 1931 what process was resumed

Answer 8

dekulakisation

Question 9

What year was the launch of Machine Tractor stations

Answer 9

1931

Question 10

What year was Start of the Famine in Ukraine

Answer 10

1932

Question 11

Which 3 places were there Mass Famines in, in 1933

Answer 11

Ukraine, Kazakhstan and North Caucasus