Communism in the Soviet Union Quiz

Who was the first Premier of the Soviet Union?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

What was the emergency policy adopted by Lenin to control the economy during the Russian Civil War?

• New Economic Policy (NEP)

• New Deal

• Five-Year Plan

• Collectivization

What was the result of forced collectivization in Ukraine during the famine of 1932–1933?

• Increased agricultural productivity

• Improved living conditions for peasants

• Expansion of individual farming

• Deaths of about four million Ukrainians

What system did Stalin use to organize the whole economy through a series of plans?

• Command economy

• Free-market capitalism

• Mixed economy

• State capitalism

What did both communism under Stalin and fascism have in common?

• Promoted social and gender hierarchies

• Embraced right-wing ethnic nationalism

• Rejected individual freedom and equality before the law

• Embraced left-wing socialist internationalism

What fundamental belief distinguished Soviet communism from fascism?

• Embracing right-wing ethnic nationalism

• Embracing left-wing socialist internationalism

• Promotion of social and gender hierarchies

• Rejection of racism and ethnic nationalism