Febuary mock

Question 1

when was NKVD order 00447?

Answer 1

30th July 1937

Question 2

How many died from NKVD order 00447 in total?

Answer 2

600,000-800,000

Question 3

When were the Officer corps?

Answer 3

June 1937

Question 4

Who was nicknamed the “Red Napoleon”

Answer 4

Tukhachevsky, Moderniser of red army

Question 5

How many of the high command were shot in the Officer corps?

Answer 5

512

Question 6

who were the Leaders of the white army

Answer 6

Kolchak and Denikin

Question 7

What did Denikin say about his army

Answer 7

“I can do nothing with my army”

Question 8

In denekins 1919 Summer offensive, how close did he come to Moscow

Answer 8

320KM

Question 9

How many peasants uprised/opposed collectivisation

Answer 9

2.5 Million

Question 10

When was the first 5 year plan?

Answer 10

1928-1932

Question 11

What were the main components of the NEP

Answer 11

Grain requisition abolished ,small businesses reopened ,Ban on private trade removed ,state control of large industry

Question 12

What amount of grain exports did the NEP never exceed?

Answer 12

3 Million compared to grain exports being 12 Million in 1913

Question 13

What was the Komsomol?

Answer 13

Communist group for teenagers

Question 14

What was the Nomenklatura

Answer 14

5,500 designed party posts appointed by central party body in 1923

Question 15

What decree was launched in January 1918

Answer 15

decree on the separation of church and state

Question 16

What group was formed to challenge the church by the bolsheviks

Answer 16

Union of militant godless

Question 17

How many died in Holodomor

Answer 17

5.7 Million

Question 18

When did Stalin call for dekulakisation

Answer 18

27th December 1929

Question 19

How many peasants were deported to Siberia in 1930-31

Answer 19

1.8 Million

Question 20

What was the Kolkhoz

Answer 20

collective farms formed in 1935

Question 21

What was the Urals Siberian method

Answer 21

Grain requisitioning backed up by “emergency measures” to ensure no grain hoarding

Question 22

By what year had “real wages” past their pre war level

Answer 22

1928

Question 23

How much did coal and Iron production increase in the first 5 year plan

Answer 23

Doubled

Question 24

How many tons of coal did Alexei Stakhanov cut in 5 hours

Answer 24

102 tons of coal on 30th August 1935

Question 25

What was the Stalin constitution of 1936

Answer 25

"democratic" cynical propaganda published before mass arrests

Question 26

What were two rights included in Stalin's constitution of 1936

Answer 26

Freedom from arbitrary arrest, freedom of speech

Question 27

how many were arrested in the "Polish operation during "national sweeps"

Answer 27

140,000, (80% of these killed)

Question 28

How many killed from "National Sweeps" in total

Answer 28

At least 250,000

Question 29

When was Nicolai Yehzov appointed as Head of NKVD

Answer 29

1936

Question 30

What was the great terror called?

Answer 30

Yezovschina

Question 31

How many inefficient wooden ploughs were in use in 1927 during the NEP

Answer 31

5 Million

Question 32

How many people are estimated to be killed in the red terror

Answer 32

500,000

Question 33

What launched the red terror

Answer 33

Assassination attempt on Lenin on 30th August 1918

Question 34

How many Kronstadt sailors were killed in the kronstadt uprising

Answer 34

10,000

Question 35

What did Lenin and Trotsky condemn the Kronstadt uprising as

Answer 35

A "White plot"

Question 36

What did Trotsky call the Kronstadt sailors in 1917

Answer 36

"The pride and glory of the revolution"

Question 37

What was Brest Litovsk seen as around Russia

Answer 37

A 'shameful peace'

Question 38

What percentage of railway lines and iron/coal reserves lost from Brest Litovsk

Answer 38

26% railway, 74% of iron/coal

Question 39

How many orphans were there in the 1920s

Answer 39

Between 7-9 Million orphans

Question 40

How many divorce cases were instigated by men at the end the 1920s

Answer 40

70%

Question 41

What was Vera Mukhina giant statue created for and what did it show

Answer 41

1937 world fair in Paris. 'worker and kolkhoz woman'-ideal symbol of new soviet speech

Question 42

In 1927 what did a survey on school children aged 11 to 15 show and how many believed in God

Answer 42

Increasingly negative views on communist values as they get older, 50% still believed in God

Question 43

What was the pioneers

Answer 43

communist youth group for children below age of 15

Question 44

How many were killed in 1922 during the anti church campaign

Answer 44

more than 8,000

Question 45

How many slogans did Mayakovsky make

Answer 45

3,000

Question 46

How many cinema tickets were sold in 1928

Answer 46

300 Million

Question 47

When was the mass deportation of Kulaks ended and why?

Answer 47

May 1933, disruption to agriculture and difficulties in organising resettlement was too great

Question 48

What % of vegetables and meat did the collective farms provide

Answer 48

52% of vegetables, 70% of meat

Question 49

Where did Stalin go during the Kulak offensive

Answer 49

Two to three months in his Dacha(country home)- did law of 5 ears of corn

Question 50

What did the Labour decree of 1940 include

Answer 50

Working day lengthened from 7 to 8 hours ,working days increased from 5 to 6 days

Question 51

What was the goal for electricity output in the first 5 year plan, what was the actual production increase achieved?

Answer 51

600% aim Output tripled

Question 52

How many enterprises were opened in the first 5 year plan

Answer 52

1,500

Question 53

How many enterprises opened in the 2nd five year plan

Answer 53

4,500

Question 54

What major works were made in the second 5 year plan

Answer 54

Volga canal, Moscow metro

Question 55

How many members were in the Komsomol in 1927

Answer 55

2 Million

Question 56

When was the Shakhty trial

Answer 56

May 1928