1E.2 Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–85 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 5

The 20 questions

1. Which economic policy was introduced by Lenin in 1921 to allow limited private trade?

   • First Five-Year Plan
   • War Communism
   • Agricultural Collectivisation
   • New Economic Policy

2. Which sector of the Soviet economy was prioritised during the First Five-Year Plan?

   • Consumer goods
   • Heavy industry
   • Light industry
   • Peasant agriculture

3. What was the main policy used by Stalin to bring peasant agriculture under state control?

   • Dekulakisation
   • Industrialisation
   • Collectivisation
   • Grain requisitioning

4. Which Soviet leader launched the Virgin Lands Scheme to expand grain production?

   • Andropov
   • Brezhnev
   • Stalin
   • Khrushchev

5. What mechanism did the Soviet Union use to rebuild its economy after the Second World War?

   • Foreign direct investment
   • Marshall Plan aid
   • Central economic planning
   • Free market deregulation

6. What major financial burden severely weakened the Soviet economy during the 1970s and 1980s?

   • Foreign debt repayments
   • Hyperinflation
   • Consumer goods overproduction
   • High military spending

7. Which 1965 reforms attempted to give Soviet enterprise managers limited autonomy and profit incentives?

   • Sovnarkhoz reforms
   • Stakhanovite movement
   • Virgin Lands scheme
   • Kosygin reforms

8. Why did official Soviet economic output figures often overstate real agricultural production?

   • Target-driven reporting fraud
   • Unreported foreign imports
   • Widespread grain theft
   • Seasonal price changes

9. Which Soviet leader increased state investment in light industry and consumer goods during the 1950s?

   • Yuri Andropov
   • Nikita Khrushchev
   • Joseph Stalin
   • Leonid Brezhnev

10. Which tragic event was a direct consequence of Stalin's forced collectivisation drive in 1932–33?

    • The Berlin Blockade
    • The Doctor's Plot
    • The Great Terror
    • The Soviet famine

11. Which state agency was responsible for creating the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plans?

    • Politburo
    • Gosplan
    • Cheka
    • Comintern

12. What serious economic issue arose from rewarding Soviet factory managers solely on gross output?

    • Excessive price competition
    • Deflationary pressures
    • Quantity over quality
    • Shortages of labour

13. Which small agricultural sector produced a disproportionate amount of Soviet food despite minimal state investment?

    • State collective farms
    • Virgin Lands farms
    • State agro-industrial complexes
    • Private peasant plots

14. Which factor contributed significantly to Soviet economic stagnation in the 1980s?

    • Surplus consumer goods
    • Rising crop yields
    • Decreasing military spending
    • Falling oil prices

15. Which sector was prioritised during Soviet industrialisation from 1928 to 1941?

    • Consumer goods
    • Agriculture
    • Light manufacturing
    • Heavy industry

16. Which group did Stalin target as a capitalist threat when ending the NEP?

    • Nomenklatura
    • Kulaks
    • Apparatchiks
    • Stakhanovites

17. What severe disaster resulted from Stalin's forced collectivisation drive in 1932–33?

    • Mass unemployment
    • Mass famine
    • Industrial collapse
    • Hyperinflation

18. What was the primary long-term result of Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Scheme?

    • Permanent high output
    • Mass population decline
    • Rapid industrialisation
    • Falling crop yields

19. Which central organisation was responsible for setting Soviet Five-Year Plan targets?

    • Gosplan
    • Gosbank
    • Comintern
    • Stavka

20. What social movement resulted from the First Five-Year Plan's rapid industrial growth?

    • Emigration abroad
    • Return to villages
    • Mass urban migration
    • Rural population growth

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