Stalin's USSR

What term is used to describe a political system in which a government demands strict obedience to their authority and impose significant restrictions on the personal freedoms and civil rights of its citizens?

• Authoritarianism

• Tsarism

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin formed an alliance with two Leftists, Kamenev and Zinoviev, in order to sideline his rival, Trotsky. What was this alliance called?

• Tripatriate

• Triple Alliance

• Triplet

• Triumvirate

Stalin held many positions of power with the USSR when Lenin died. Which was his most influential position, one that Lenin had recommended that he be removed from?

• Commissar for Nationalities

• Commader of the Red Army

• President of the USSR

• General Secretary of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party

Stalin used this influential position to give jobs to people whom were loyal to him. What is this practice called?

• Nepotism

• Socialism

• Favouritism

• Capitalism

What policy did Stalin introduce in 1924 in which he argued that the USSR should consolidate the communist revolution at home rather than trying to spread communist revolutions abroad?

• Socialism in One Country

• New Economic Policy

• Permanent Revolution

• Consolidationism

Stalin's policy gained support from the Rightists but was attacked by Trotsky and the Leftists. Which other Rightist policy did Stalin adopt which was also opposed by the Leftists?

• Rapid industrialisation

• Modernising agriculture

• Continuing with Lenin's NEP

• New democratic political reforms

At the 1925 Communist Party Conference, the Rightist gained more support for their policies from Party members and Stalin felt secure enough to remove which three Leftists from the Politburo?

• Kamenev,

  Bukharin, Zinoviev

• Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin

• Zinoviev, Trotsky, Bukharin

• Kamenev, Zinoviev, Trotsky

After eliminating his Leftist rivals, Stalin then turned on the right by rejecting the NEP and supporting which Leftist policy?

• Socialism in One Country

• Rapid industrialisation

• Permanent Revolution

• Lenin's New Economic Policy

In 1929, Stalin removed which Rightist from the Politburo to become undisputed dictator of the USSR?

• Kamenev

• Zinoviev

• Bukharin

• Trotsky

What was the name of Stalin's economic policies that aimed to achieve rapid industrialisation in the USSR?

• Four Year Plans

• Five Year Plans

• Collectivisation

• Modernisation