key facts and figures 1924-29

Question 1

Stalin appointed General Secretary

Answer 1

April 1922

Question 2

Triumvirate formed

Answer 2

May 1922

Question 3

Lenin’s strokes

Answer 3

May and December 1922
March 1923 (close to death)

Question 4

USSR formed

Answer 4

December 1922

Question 5

Lenin’s death

Answer 5

January 1924

Question 6

Stalin shifts to supporting the NEP

Answer 6

1928-29

Question 7

‘Socialism in one country’ developed

Answer 7

1923

Question 8

13th Party Congress (testament blocked)

Answer 8

May 1924

Question 9

Trotsky critcises Kamenev and Zinoviev for not backing Lenin in 1917

Answer 9

October 1924

Question 10

Kamenev and Zinoviev criticise Stalin for his move to the Right and support for the NEP at the 14th Party Congress

Answer 10

December 1925

Question 11

What years did the ‘Duumvirate’ largely run the country?

Answer 11

1926-27

Question 12

Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky form the United Opposition

Answer 12

1926

Question 13

Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky are expelled from the Party

Answer 13

November 1927

Question 14

Grain procurement crisis

Answer 14

Early 1928

Question 15

Bukharin critcises the ‘excesses’ of officials following Stalin’s methods

Answer 15

April 1928

Question 16

Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky expelled from the Politburo

Answer 16

November 1929

Question 17

Trotsky murdered

Answer 17

1940

Question 18

Stalin’s dictatorship fully established

Answer 18

December 1929

Question 19

Debate over ‘permanent revolution’ particularly intense

Answer 19

1924

Question 20

Trotsky forced out of his position as People’s Commissar for War

Answer 20

January 1925

Question 21

The ‘Literary Discussion’

Answer 21

1924

Question 22

Stalin offers to resign as General Secretary

Answer 22

December 1926

Question 23

Crushing of the Chinese Communists in Canton and Shanghai

Answer 23

1927

Question 24

When did Bukharin lose editorship of Pravda?

Answer 24

April 1929

Question 25

End of the NEP

Answer 25

December 1927

Question 26

'Extraordinary measures' demanded to deal with the grain procurement crisis

Answer 26

January 1928

Question 27

First Five Year Plan launched

Answer 27

October 1928

Question 28

Stalin declares ‘war against the kulaks’

Answer 28

December 1929

Question 29

Grain procurement crisis stats

Answer 29

Amount of grain purchased by government down by 25% on the previous year in winter of 1927-28

Question 30

Percentage of the peasant population was working on collective farms in 1928

Answer 30

5%

Question 31

Target for electricity in the first 5YP

Answer 31

6x more electrical power by 1933 compared to 1928

Question 32

GPU renamed

Answer 32

OGPU in 1926

Question 33

Attack on social democratic parties in Europe launched

Answer 33

1929

Question 34

Treaty of Berlin

Answer 34

1926

Question 35

Stresemann’s death

Answer 35

1929

Question 36

Workers were killed by the GMD in 1927

Answer 36

~30,000