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25 Cards in this Set
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Name and date Party member was murdered in Leningrad that sparked the Great Purges?
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Kirov 1934
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What law did Stalin pass in response to this incident?
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Emergency Decree
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Name and date the Show Trials of three former party members.
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Zinoviev and Kamenev 1936, Bukharin 1938
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When watching Eisenstein’s 1928 film ‘Ivan the Terrible’ what was Stalin’s comment?
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‘Ivan’s only fault was in not annihilating enough of his enemies.’
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What was the name of the secret police?
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NKVD
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How many people had been sent to the Gulags by 1937
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18 million
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How many army officers and name the Supreme Commander of the Red Army executed
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25,000 and Marshall Tukhachevsky
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What was the name of Stalin’s little helper in the purges?
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Yezhov
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What is Conquests estimate of Stalin caused deaths 1929-53?
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20 million
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In 1928 what social policy was introduced?
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‘Revolution from above.’
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What was the name of the youth group people were expected to join?
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The Young Pioneers.
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How many clergy members were shot in 1937-8 but what happened did the persecution stop?
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100,000 and WWII
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Collectivisation brought an end to which policy?
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The NEP
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What was the most common type of farm that the peasants were forced onto and what percentage had been collectivised by 1941?
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Kokhoz 90%
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What was the name of the urban group used to enforce collectivization?
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‘The 25,000 rs’
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How many people does Conquest estimate died in the Great Famine?
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7 million
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Name one massive industrial city created in the Urals and one in Siberia
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Magnitogorsk and Sverdlovsk
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Name the dates of the First, Second and Third Five Year Plans
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1929 -32, 1933 -37 & 1938 -41
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Steel production went from what in 1928 to what in 1937
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4 mill tonnes to 17.7
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Name the massive Hydro electric dam and the canal built.
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The Dneiprostroi Dam and Belomor Canal
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What was the name of the amazing miner and how much coal did he cut in his shift in 1935?
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Alexei Stakhanov 102, 227 in 1936
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Name and date the young girl that Stalin held for a famous photo, despite having her parents killed?
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Geyla Markizova 1936
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Name and date the author who wrote ‘Kill, it’s not ours anymore
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Sholokhov 1935.
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Name and date the suicides of Stalin’s second wife and son.
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Nadezda and Yakov Dzhugashvili 1932 and 1943.
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Name and date author of a 200 page criticism of Stalin given to the Central Committee.
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Ryutin 1932
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