Question 1

What was a Kolkhoz?

Accepted Answer

collective farm

Answer

an informer for the communist party

Answer

strip of land owned by a peasant

Answer

type of tractor

Question 2

How many households worked together in a collective farm?

Accepted Answer

50-100

Answer

5-10

Answer

500-1000

Question 3

What was an MTS

Accepted Answer

Machine and Tractor station

Answer

Marching and Training station

Answer

Manipulation and Threats Station

Question 4

In the 1935 Kolkhoz model statute, what were peasants allowed to keep?

Accepted Answer

A private plot of up to an acre.

Answer

Shot guns for self defence.

Answer

Guard dogs.

Question 5

Which group of people did Stalin want to obliterate in the countryside?

Accepted Answer

Kulaks

Answer

Nobles

Answer

Tsarist supporters

Question 6

Which statement is NOT  what Stalin hoped to achieve with forced collectivisation?

Accepted Answer

It would create wealthier, more independent farmers.

Answer

It would free people to move to towns and work in factories.

Answer

Amount of food produced would increase.

Answer

The price of food would fall.

Question 7

what did the '25, 000ers' do?

Accepted Answer

organise the collective farms

Answer

Wrote newspaper articles about collectivisation

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Supported new collective farms to become efficient.

Answer

organised revolts against collective farms

Question 8

What % of the rural population had been forced into collectivisation by 1930?

Accepted Answer

roughly 50%

Answer

roughly 20%

Answer

roughly 70%

Answer

roughly 40%

Question 9

Why was collectivisation temporarily stopped between March and September 1930?

Accepted Answer

There would be no harvest if they did not stop it briefly.

Answer

Stalin had a change of policy.

Answer

Too many riots against it.

Answer

Famine caused them to stop.

Question 10

What percentage of people had been organised into collective farms by the end of 1930s?

Accepted Answer

90%

Answer

83%

Answer

100%

Answer

67%

Question 11

How did the GPU (Secret police) and local party officials show their effectiveness?

Accepted Answer

Fulfilling the quotas of Kulaks if they existed or not.

Answer

worked 18 hour shifts.

Answer

Wrote extensive reports to Stalin every day.

Question 12

What happened to counter-revolutionary Kulaks?

Accepted Answer

Sent to be shot

Answer

Sent to local prisons

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re-educated in communist ways.

Answer

Thrown out of the country

Question 13

What happened to those how fought against collectivisation in their area?

Accepted Answer

deported to Siberia

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Shot on sight.

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Exiled abroad.

Answer

arrested and imprisoned.

Question 14

What was a gulag?

Accepted Answer

labour camp

Answer

large collective farm

Answer

Peasant bread

Answer

type of stew peasants ate

Question 15

How many people were deported from their home under the collectivisation drive?

Accepted Answer

1.8 million

Answer

1.1 million

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1.3 million

Answer

1.6 million

Question 16

Roughly how many were sent to Gulags in 1930-1?

Accepted Answer

390, 000

Answer

450, 000

Answer

240, 000

Answer

100, 000

Question 17

How many were shot for being counter revolutionaries 1930-31?

Accepted Answer

21, 000

Answer

21

Answer

210

Answer

2, 100

Question 18

Why did Stalin stop deporting Kulaks in May 1933?

Accepted Answer

It caused too much disruption to agriculture

Answer

There were no Kulaks left

Answer

The local communists refused to carry out his orders

Question 19

How many outbreaks of resistance happened in 1930?

Accepted Answer

13, 754

Answer

3, 483

Answer

21, 946

Answer

9, 745

Question 20

How many Bolsheviks were killed by kulak action in 1930?

Accepted Answer

3, 155

Answer

90, 596

Answer

178

Answer

5, 491

Question 21

What were the bab'i bunty

Accepted Answer

women's revolts

Answer

Religious leader

Answer

Russian Kitchen roll

Answer

Soviet chocolate bar

Question 22

What was abolished in 1930?

Accepted Answer

The Mir

Answer

Poll Tax

Answer

collective farms

Answer

Rule by decree

Question 23

between 1928-1941 how many millions of peasants left the countryside of the towns?

Accepted Answer

20 million

Answer

4  million

Answer

100, 000 million

Answer

60  million

Question 24

What did the government issue to try and stop the pressure of movements into towns?

Accepted Answer

internal passports

Answer

posters saying the towns were bad.

Answer

decree against migration

Question 25

What was happening in Ukraine between 1932-33?

Accepted Answer

Famine

Answer

disease spreading rapidly

Answer

protests

Answer

floods

Question 26

How many did in the famine in Ukraine according to Robert Conquest?

Accepted Answer

7, 000, 000

Answer

70, 000

Answer

7000

Answer

700

Question 27

What was the law of 5 ears of corn?

Accepted Answer

At least 10 years imprisonment but usually death for anyone caught cutting individual stalks of corn.

Answer

Those caught stealing corn had their ears cut off.

Answer

everyone was rationed to 5 ears of corn a day.

Answer

5 ears of corn had to be exchanged with a neighbour once a month.

Question 28

By the end of 1933, how many had been executed due to the law of 5 ears of corn?

Accepted Answer

1000

Answer

100

Answer

10, 000

Answer

10

Question 29

What animals were not limited after the 1935 kolkhoz model statute?

Accepted Answer

rabbits

Answer

cows

Answer

sheep

Answer

pigs

Question 30

what % of vegetables were grown on private plots of land?

Accepted Answer

52%

Answer

27%

Answer

53%

Answer

76%

Question 31

What % of meat was produced on private plots?

Accepted Answer

70%

Answer

40%

Answer

10%

Answer

90%

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