History

Question 1

2.1) Duma

Answer 1

Russian parliament

Question 2

2.1) soviet

Answer 2

revolutionary council of labourers or peasants in Russia before 1917; also: citizen of the Soviet Union (Soviet)

Question 3

2.1) communism

Answer 3

system of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to his ability and needs

Question 4

2.1) Bolshevik

Answer 4

member of the political party of Lenin

Question 5

2.1) dictator

Answer 5

ruler with total power over a country, mostly one who had obtained control by force

Question 6

2.2) New Economic Policy

Answer 6

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

Question 7

2.2) superpower

Answer 7

very powerful and influential nation in the world

Question 8

2.2) totalitarian state:

Answer 8

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

Question 9

2.2) Five-Year Plan:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

2.2) collectivisation

Answer 10

forceful joining of agriculture into huge state farms

Question 11

2.2) kulak

Answer 11

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

Question 12

2.2) Great Purge:

Answer 12

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

Question 13

2.2) Gulag forced labour camps:

Answer 13

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

Question 14

2.2) cult of personality:

Answer 14

excessive public admiration for or devotion to a famous person