| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 | Joseph Stalin | 100%
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| Country in which Leon Trotsky was assassinated | Mexico | 95%
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| Labour camp used in the Purges | Gulag | 91%
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| Weapon used in the assassination | Icepick | 73%
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| Secret police formed in 1934 | NKVD | 64%
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| Year of the Trial of the Sixteen | 1936 | 59%
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| Major political figures arrested in January 1935 | Grigory Zinoviev | 55%
|
| Lev Kamenev | 55%
| |
| Main politician tried in the 1938 Trial of the Twenty One | Nikolai Bukharin | 50%
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| Popular politician killed in December 1934 | Sergei Kirov | 50%
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| Other name for the Moscow Trials | Show Trials | 50%
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| Head of the secret police from 1936-38, infamous for his cruelty | Nikolai Yezhov | 45%
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| Estimated number of Party members killed in this period | 1 million | 32%
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| Period triggered by the above | The Great Terror | 32%
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| Approximate number of arrests during the Purges | 7-8 million | 27%
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