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 launched in 1929 forced Soviet peasants to pool their land into state-controlled farms?

    • Nationalisation
    • Industrialisation
    • Collectivisation
    • Dekulakisation

  2. In which Soviet republic did millions die during the severe man-made famine of 1932–1933?

    • Russia
    • Georgia
    • Ukraine
    • Belarus

  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 official artistic style was enforced across the USSR from 1934 to promote socialist ideals?

    • Social Realism
    • Socialist Realism
    • Futurism
    • Constructivism

  6. Whose assassination in December 1934 provided Stalin with the pretext to initiate the Great Purges?

    • Nikolai Bukharin
    • Sergei Kirov
    • Leon Trotsky
    • Felix Dzerzhinsky

  7. Which Soviet secret police agency carried out state terror and purges during the 1930s?

    • KGB
    • Cheka
    • NKVD
    • OGPU

  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 1936 Soviet constitution claimed to guarantee civil rights while maintaining one-party Communist rule?

    • The Stalin Constitution
    • The Fundamental Laws
    • The Weimar Constitution
    • The October Manifesto

  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 primary aim of the Soviet show trials between 1936 and 1938?

    • Promoting industrial growth
    • Ending forced collectivisation
    • Recruiting army officers
    • Eliminating political rivals

  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 1942 to 1943 battle is considered the main turning point on the Eastern Front?

    • Siege of Leningrad
    • Battle of Moscow
    • Battle of Kursk
    • Battle of Stalingrad

  15. Which 1946 campaign enforced strict ideological conformity in Soviet culture under Andrei Zhdanov?

    • The Great Terror
    • Socialist Realism
    • De-Stalinisation
    • Zhdanovism

  16. What was the main outcome of the Leningrad Affair between 1949 and 1950?

    • Purging party leaders
    • Naval officer mutiny
    • German troop siege
    • General workers' strike

  17. Which alleged 1953 conspiracy demonstrated Stalin's growing paranoia shortly before his death?

    • The Leningrad Affair
    • The Doctors' Plot
    • The Ryutin Affair
    • The Shakhty Trial

  18. What primary factor drove industrial expansion under the 1930s Five Year Plans?

    • Free market competition
    • Private business profits
    • Foreign financial aid
    • Heavy state investment

  19. How was Joseph Stalin primarily presented in Soviet propaganda during the 1930s personality cult?

    • People's Saviour
    • Supreme Commander
    • Father of Russia
    • Lenin's heir

  20. Which condition accompanied rapid Soviet industrialisation under Stalin by 1941?

    • Mass state repression
    • Multi-party democracy
    • Private land ownership
    • Free market trading

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