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118 Cards in this Set
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When was the October Manifesto published?
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1905
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What were the reasons for the 1936 purge?
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Non political: 76% Being linked to spies: 1% Being Zinovievites: 3% Being former White guards or kulaks: 20% |
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What year were there Purges under Stalin and what percentage of people were purged?
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1928-1930: 11% 1933: - 1935: 20% 1936: 9% |
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What year was Kirov's assassination?
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1934
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What year was Russification imposed?
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1866
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In 1937 what percentage of Russians were Catholics?
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57%
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What year was the attack on the Bourgeoisie?
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1928
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To what percentage did illiteracy decline to in 1939?
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Men: 4% Women: 18% |
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What was the percentage of working women in Leningrad between 1935-37?
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44% to 50%
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In 1939, how many people were in labour camps?
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3 million
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What kind of discrimination did women face during 1934?
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50/60% of doctors were women but 4 were chief doctors. There was only 20 female factory directors while 318 men. |
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When did the politburo legalize torture? |
1937
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How many members of the 1934 Central Committee were alive in 1939?
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16/71
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How many people did Ezhov propose to arrest?
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250,000
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How many of the 1934 delegates were re-elected to the 1939 Party congress?
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3%
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What years were the show trials under Stalin?
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1936, 1937, 1938.
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In 1920, how many members did the Red Army have?
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5 million.
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How many former Tsarist officers did Trotsky recruit to the Red army?
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50,000
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When the elections were held for party central committee, how many delegates didn't vote for Stalin?
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166/1200
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How many factory workers in 1914?
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2.5 Million.
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What year was the Cheka established?
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1917
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How many sovereign governments were there in 1918?
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33.
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What were the results of the Constituent assembly?
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SR'S: 40.4% BOLSHEVIKS: 28.2% |
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What year was Russia hit by world depression?
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1899.
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What year was the Treaty of Brest Litovsk?
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1917.
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What year did Lenin impose food requisitioning?
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1918
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What was the annual growth rate during the 5 Year plan?
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5-6%
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How many enterprises were built between 1928 and 1941?
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8,000
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What year was the 5 year plan published?
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1928
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In what year was the Central war industries committee set up?
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1915.
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What year was the progressive bloc formed?
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1915.
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What year was the Shakty Trial?
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1928.
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What law was passed in 1933?
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The government made it a criminal offence for a factory to produce substandard goods and imprisoned managers and directors of plants as a result.
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When was Trotsky replaced as Commissar for war, leaving the Left largely defeated?
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1925
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What year was Trotsky expelled from the USSR?
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1927
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When did the United Opposition hold a demonstration in the Red Square, Moscow?
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October 1927
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What year was Bukharin out stead as Comintern?
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1929.
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What year(s) did the Famines occur? |
1891 1921 1932-4 |
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Stolypin's reforms? |
- All crown lands were available to peasant land bank. - Peasant's allowed to withdraw from commune, without needing its consent. - Peasants who left MIR, allowed to have land altogether rather than strips. - End to redistribution of Land, making it hereditary property. |
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By the Outbreak of the first world war, how many peasants had left the Mir? |
2 Million peasants. |
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When did Stolypin pass his reforms? |
1906 |
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When did the government legalize trade unions? |
After the 1905 Revolution. |
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Number of people who took strike action in 1905 and 1906 |
1905: 2,863,000 1906: 1,108,000 |
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Between 1905 and 1913, to what extent did National debt decrease? |
From 9,014,000 to 8,835,000 roubles |
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Economic indicators of progress under Nicholas II. |
Pig Iron: 1900: 179. 1913: 283. Railways: 1900: 53.2 1913: 70.2 |
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How many men did Russia lose in the first 12 months of the First World war? |
Over 4 million. |
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When was the Kornilov coup? |
August 1917. |
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When was the Kerensky offensive? |
July 1917. |
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What year did the Civil war occur? |
1917-1921 |
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When was the NEP introduced and ended? |
1921-1928 |
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Communist Party membership. |
1924: 472,000 1929: 1,535,362 |
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When did the Vesenkha set up Gosplan? |
1921. |
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By what percentage were the state grain prices raised by, in 1928 |
20% |
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In what year did the British police raid Offices of the Soviet delegation claiming to find documents which showed they were working to bring a Marxist revolution in the UK? |
1927 |
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When was the five year plan published? |
1928 |
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By what percentage were the planners able to raise revenue after the Stakhanovite moment? |
10 to 15% in 1936 |
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In what year did Alexei Stakhanov cut 102 tons from a coal seam? |
1935. |
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In 1940, by what percentage was the food consumption down, compared to 1928? |
7% |
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How many workers did the 5 year plan boost to managerial positions? |
1.5 million workers. |
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What did a census find in 1934? |
That one quarter of the new coal cutting machines was not being used and one third of the new pneumatic drills. |
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In what year did Stalin criticize the equalisation of wages? |
1931. |
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What percentage of timer was produced by the gulag population? |
12% |
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What year was the Lenin enrolment? |
1924 |
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What year saw the attacks of kulaks and NEP-men? |
1928. |
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In the summer of 1928, how many party workers, komsomol members and factory workers went out into the farms to help with the the harvest. |
100,000. |
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Between 1937 and 1938, how many people were shot without trial? |
1 million. |
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Executions in 1936 and 1938 |
1936: 1118. 1938: 329, 000. |
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By 1930, how many churches were still functioning? |
1 in 40. |
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How many members did the League of the Militant and Godless lose between 1932 and 1938? When was the Leningrad branch shut down? |
3/4 1936 due to lack to members. |
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When was the law of treating anybody over 12 years of age as an adult passed? |
1935 |
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When did Khrushchev make a famous attack on Stalin? |
1956. |
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What titles did Stalin hold in the Government? |
Commissar for Nationalities. Head of Rabkrin. General secretary of the Party. |
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When was the WW2? |
1941-1945 |
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In 1945, what were the Soviet exports and imports valued at? |
Exports: 1433 million roubles, Imports: 14,805 million roubles. |
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How many were in labour camps during 1947? |
4.7 million |
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During 1947 (post war period) what did the work force increase to? |
From 67 to 77 million. |
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When was the USSR hit with a nationwide drought? |
1946. |
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How much less did the 1945 harvest produce, compared to the pre war harvests? |
60% |
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To what percentage was the rouble devalued in 1947? |
90% |
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Total farm production statistics in 1950: (Plan target & actual) |
Plan target: 127 Actual: 99 |
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When did Stalin announce the plan of transformation of nature? |
1948 |
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When was the purge of the Leningrad party? |
1949 |
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When was the doctors plot? |
1953 |
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What did Stalin persuade the Central Committee to replace in 1952? |
The Politburo with a larger Praesidium in order to reduce the influence of the old guard to the party, Molotov and Mikoyan. |
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When was the Milgrelian case? |
1951 |
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In what year did Stalin plan to resettle Jews in Siberia? |
1952. |
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When did Stalin die? |
1953. |
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When did the Virgin Land projects begin? |
1954 |
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When was the Berlin wall built? |
1961 |
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When was Khrushchev removed from power? |
1964 |
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When was the Cuban Missile crisis? |
1962 |
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What was the reduction of the army in 1960? |
From 3.6 million to 2.4 million. |
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What happened in 1960? |
US spy plane over the USSR was shot down . |
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When was the Ban Treaty? |
1963 |
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By 1956, what was the increase in hectares that were cultivated? |
35.9 million |
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When was Sputnik 1 launched? |
1957 |
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When did the USSR land a red flag on the moon and take a photograph of the dark side of the moon? |
1959 |
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In 1968 what percentage of the Soviet households had a TV and washing machine? |
50% |
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When did Stalin announce decentralization of the economy? |
1957. |
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What was the Truman Doctrine? |
A USA deceleration of support to countries or people threatened by soviet forces or communist insurrections. |
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When was the Truman Doctrine? |
1947 |
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When was the Berlin blockade? |
1948. |
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What is the Berlin blockade? |
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. |
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When did the USA make available, under the Marshall plan, $13 billion in loans and and grants to European states? |
1947 |
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When was the NATO set up? |
1949 |
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What was the NATO? |
A treaty to bring about a greater military co-operation between USA and western Europe. |
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When did the Korean war break out? |
1950. |
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When was the Cominform set up? (Communist Information Bureau) |
1947 |
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What was the purpose of the cominform? |
Reject the West's offer of financial help and to co-ordinate economic recovery for Eastern Europe through a programme of co-operation. Also served to heighten tensions. |
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When was the Cold war? |
1947-1964 |
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How many kulaks were eliminated through collectivisation?
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15 million
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How many peasant households were collectivised by 1937?
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93%
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how many people did the 1933 famine kill?
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4 million
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To what number were the Russian cattle reduced to in 1933?
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39 million
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How many Russian cattle were there in 1928?
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70 million
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What was the grain production in 1928?
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73.3 million ton
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What was the grain production in 1934?
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67.7 million ton.
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