Lesson 2N.2.1

2N.2.1 Stalin's rule, 1929–1953 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 24

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The 20 questions

  1. Which policy from 1929 forced peasants into collective farms and eliminated private land ownership?

    • The New Economic Policy
    • The Great Patriotic War
    • Forced collectivisation
    • Voluntary cooperatives under the NEP

  2. Which famine resulted in millions of deaths in Soviet agricultural regions in 1932-1934?

    • The Holodomor of 1900
    • The Great Leap Famine of 1959
    • The famine of 1932-1934
    • The Volga famine of 1921

  3. What was the central planning agency that organised Soviet industrial growth under the Five Year Plans?

    • Politburo
    • Gosplan
    • Komsomol
    • Cheka

  4. Which worker was promoted by the regime in 1935 as a model of high productivity?

    • Nikolai Bukharin
    • Alexei Stakhanov
    • Ivan Yezhov
    • Lev Kamenev

  5. Which artistic style was enforced in Soviet culture from the mid-1930s to show the achievements of socialism?

    • Dadaism
    • Socialist Realism
    • Constructivism in its avant-garde form
    • Cubism

  6. What event in December 1934 triggered a wave of purges and show trials in the Soviet Union?

    • The start of the Second World War in 1939
    • The murder of Sergei Kirov
    • The Stalin constitution of 1936
    • The death of Lenin in 1924

  7. Which institution was responsible for the state security and terror of the 1930s?

    • The Komsomol
    • The Gosplan
    • The NKVD
    • The Red Army General Staff

  8. Who was the head of the NKVD during the Yezhovshchina, the mass terror of 1936-1938?

    • Vyacheslav Molotov
    • Nikolai Yezhov
    • Georgy Malenkov
    • Lavrentiy Beria

  9. Which constitution of 1936 claimed to guarantee rights while retaining one-party control?

    • The Stalin constitution
    • The Weimar constitution
    • The Russian constitution of 1906
    • The Dawes constitution

  10. Which former Bolshevik leader was murdered in Mexico in 1940 on Stalin's orders?

    • Leon Trotsky
    • Nikolai Bukharin
    • Lev Kamenev
    • Grigory Zinoviev

  11. What was the purpose of the show trials of 1936-1938?

    • To give defendants fair trials with defence lawyers
    • To promote international co-operation with the League
    • To reform the Soviet legal system after 1936
    • To eliminate rivals by securing public confessions of treason

  12. Which pact of August 1939 allowed the USSR to seize territory in eastern Poland and the Baltic states?

    • The Stresa Front
    • The Munich Agreement
    • The Anti-Comintern Pact
    • The Nazi-Soviet Pact

  13. Which operation launched by Germany in June 1941 marked the start of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union?

    • Operation Sea Lion
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Operation Market Garden
    • Operation Overlord

  14. Which battle, fought from 1942 to 1943, is widely seen as the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front?

    • The Battle of Berlin
    • The Battle of Moscow
    • The Battle of Kursk
    • The Battle of Stalingrad

  15. Which 1946 campaign under Zhdanov targeted artists, writers and composers for ideological conformity?

    • The Five Year Plan campaign
    • The Kirov purge
    • The Stakhanovite movement
    • The Zhdanovite cultural purge

  16. What was the Leningrad Affair of 1949-1950?

    • A purge of Leningrad party leaders
    • A famine relief operation in Leningrad
    • A treaty between Leningrad and Berlin
    • An uprising of workers in Leningrad against the NKVD

  17. Which 1953 event revealed Stalin's paranoia about a supposed plot by doctors?

    • The Night of the Long Knives
    • The Doctors' Plot
    • The Kronstadt rising
    • The Prague Spring

  18. Which factor best explains the economic achievements of the Five Year Plans in the 1930s?

    • Market reforms that allowed private firms to dominate industry
    • Consumer-goods production that rose faster than heavy industry
    • Foreign loans from the USA that paid for all Soviet expansion
    • Heavy investment and mass mobilisation at a cost to living standards

  19. Which statement best describes the Stalin cult of personality in the 1930s?

    • Stalin shared his public image equally with Trotsky and Bukharin
    • Stalin's image was banned from newspapers from 1932 onwards
    • Stalin rejected any public praise to focus on administration
    • Propaganda presented Stalin as infallible and Lenin's heir

  20. Which statement best summarises the Soviet Union by 1941 under Stalin?

    • Industrial growth, but terror, famine and repression
    • Living standards were higher than in any other European state
    • The economy remained agricultural with no heavy industry
    • Political repression ended in 1934 after the Kirov murder

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