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Life in the USSR

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were Stalin's economic policies commonly known referred to?

a)

Three Year Plans

b)

Four Year Plans

c)

Five Year Plans

d)

Six Year Plans

2.

Which of the following aspects of the economy did the Five Year Plans focus on?

a)

Industry and Trade

b)

Industry and Agriculture

c)

Agriculture and Trade

d)

Trade and Fishing

3.

Rapid industrialisation focuses on the heavy industries. Which of the following are examples of heavy industries?

a)

coal

b)

textile

c)

wood

d)

steel

4.

What was collectivisation?

a)

All similar industries became merged into a bigger company

b)

Smaller farms were merged into bigger state-owned collective farms

c)

Allowed famers to sell their crops at a fixed and high price to the government

d)

Crops were all collected at the state-level to maximise the profits of the farmers

5.

What was the kulaks' (aka rich, land-owning peasants) reaction to the policy of collectivisation?

a)

They enthusiastically joined the collective farms

b)

They volunteered to become shock workers for the state

c)

They decided to burn or hid their crops and killed their own animals

d)

They protested to the police and the courts against the introduction

6.

Which of these had the most dramtic rise in production after the first two Five Year Plans?

a)

Oil

b)

Coal

c)

Steel

7.

What was the name for the secret police under Stalin who used to be known as the Cheka

(a)  

8.

What was the name for a Russian forced labour camp?

(a)  

9.

Select which of these men was put on trial in the First Show Trial.

a)

Zinoviev

b)

Kamenev

c)

Kirov

d)

Lenin

10.

In what year did the First Show Trial begin?

a)

1926

b)

1936

c)

1946

d)

1956

11.

Select which of the following statements about the Second Show Trial are true.

a)

It was known as the trial of the 17

b)

Defendants included Pyatakov and Radek

c)

Defendants were accused of conspiring with the United States

d)

The trial began in 1940

12.

Vyshinksy was the prosecutor in the Second Show Trial.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Select which two of the following statements about the Third Show Trial are true.

a)

It was known as the Trial of the 33

b)

Yagoda was one of those put on trial

c)

Defendants admitted to conspiring with Fascists

d)

None of the defendants were executed

14.

What was the Third Show Trial known as?

a)

The trial of 11

b)

The trial of 21

c)

The trial of 91

d)

The trial of 101

15.

What was the name of the Communist Party newspaper?

(a)