How many Five Year Plans were there?
One
Two
Three
What was the name of the state planning agency that drew up the plans?
GOSPLAN
State Planning Agency
NKVD
What did the first two plans concentrate on improving?
housing
consumer goods
heavy industry
Which coal miner set an example to the entire country?
Leon Trotsky
Grigory Zinoviev
Alexei Stakhanov
Production of coal rose
from 3 to 15 million tonnes
from 2 to 29 million tonnes
from 36 to 130 million tonnes
Production of oil rose
Production of iron rose...
Which of the following was NOT achieved by the Five Year Plans?
The Dneiper Dam
The Trans-Siberian Railway
The Belomor Canal
What was Magnitogorsk?
A huge electricity works
A huge car factory
A huge steelworks
What was Trotsky's fate in 1929?
He was imprisoned
He was exiled
He was executed
Collectivisation was driven by Stalin's desire to destroy whom?
His political enemies
The Jews
The kulaks
What was the approximate number of deaths resulting from collectivisation and the 1932-3 famine?
70, 000
700, 000
7, 000. 000
What was the Russian term for a collective farm?
Kolkhoz
Kolkoz
Sovkhoz
Which of the following happened when Stalin tried to enforce collectivisation?
The peasants burned their crops and killed their animals
There was a famine
Production rose
Who were the kulaks?
A farmer rich enough to own a barn.
A peasant who could afford to hire others.
Any peasant who opposed Stalin's policy of collectivisation.
