Key Dates

Question 1

When did Lenin die?

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

When was Zinoviev expelled from the Politburo?

Answer 2

1926

Question 3

When did Kamenev and Trotsky admit their guilt for forming factions?

Answer 3

1927

Question 4

When were Trotsky and Zinoviev expelled from the central committee and the party?

Answer 4

1927

Question 5

When did collectivisation begin?

Answer 5

1928

Question 6

When was Trotsky exiled from the USSR?

Answer 6

1929

Question 7

When was the first 5 year plan?

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

When did Stalin write his ‘Dizzy with success’ article?

Answer 8

1930

Question 9

When did famine strike the USSR?

Answer 9

1932

Question 10

Zinoviev and Kamenev are exiled to Siberia?

Answer 10

1932

Question 11

When did the mass party purge begin?

Answer 11

1933- (1/3 party removed)

Question 12

When did the second 5 year plan begin?

Answer 12

1933

Question 13

When was Kirov killed?

Answer 13

1934

Question 14

When did the Stakhanovite program begin?

Answer 14

1935

Question 15

When were Kamenev and Zinoviev put on trial and shot?

Answer 15

1936

Question 16

When was the Red army purged?

Answer 16

1937

Question 17

When did the third 5 year plan begin?

Answer 17

1938

Question 18

When was Trotsky assassinated in Mexico?

Answer 18

1940

Question 19

When did Germany turn on the USSR?

Answer 19

1940