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WorksheetsLife in the USSR
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What were Stalin's economic policies commonly known referred to?
Three Year Plans
Four Year Plans
Five Year Plans
Six Year Plans
Which of the following aspects of the economy did the Five Year Plans focus on?
Industry and Trade
Industry and Agriculture
Agriculture and Trade
Trade and Fishing
Rapid industrialisation focuses on the heavy industries. Which of the following are examples of heavy industries?
coal
textile
wood
steel
What was collectivisation?
All similar industries became merged into a bigger company
Smaller farms were merged into bigger state-owned collective farms
Allowed famers to sell their crops at a fixed and high price to the government
Crops were all collected at the state-level to maximise the profits of the farmers
What was the kulaks' (aka rich, land-owning peasants) reaction to the policy of collectivisation?
They enthusiastically joined the collective farms
They volunteered to become shock workers for the state
They decided to burn or hid their crops and killed their own animals
They protested to the police and the courts against the introduction
Which of these had the most dramtic rise in production after the first two Five Year Plans?
Oil
Coal
Steel
What was the name for the secret police under Stalin who used to be known as the Cheka
(a)
What was the name for a Russian forced labour camp?
(a)
Select which of these men was put on trial in the First Show Trial.
Zinoviev
Kamenev
Kirov
Lenin
In what year did the First Show Trial begin?
1926
1936
1946
1956
Select which of the following statements about the Second Show Trial are true.
It was known as the trial of the 17
Defendants included Pyatakov and Radek
Defendants were accused of conspiring with the United States
The trial began in 1940
Vyshinksy was the prosecutor in the Second Show Trial.
True
False
Select which two of the following statements about the Third Show Trial are true.
It was known as the Trial of the 33
Yagoda was one of those put on trial
Defendants admitted to conspiring with Fascists
None of the defendants were executed
What was the Third Show Trial known as?
The trial of 11
The trial of 21
The trial of 91
The trial of 101
What was the name of the Communist Party newspaper?
(a)
