Soviet Union: 1917 - 1991 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What fraction of government spending was dedicated to military in 1940?	1/3	93%
What percentage of the male adult population was affected by Yezhovshchina?	10%	86%
What year was Khrushchev's Secret Speech, in which he revealed Stalin's crimes and discouraged having a cult of personality?	1956	69%
Gorbechev established two main reforms - political:	Glasnost	66%
Who was the first man in space?	Yuri Gagarin	62%
Karl Marx said "religion is the _____ of the masses"	opium	59%
Name the official newspaper of the Communist Party	Pravda	59%
And economical:	Perestroika	52%
What type of the economy is used by the Soviet Union?	command	48%
Name the unpopular treaty between Russia and Germany that ended involvement in WWI	Brest-Litovsk	45%
What was the name of the famine in Ukraine during 1932 - 1933 that killed 5 million people?	Holodomor	41%
Who's wife was imprisoned to test his loyalty to Stalin?	Vyacheslav Molotov	41%
Who did Khrushchev temporarily rule with as a duumvirate?	Georgi Malenkov	34%
What is a state governed by old people called?	gerontocracy	34%
Who was the first woman in space?	Valentina Tereshkova	34%
Name the central economic planning agency	Gosplan	31%
What type of industry did Khrushchev prioritise?	light industry	31%
Give an example of one of Stalin's industrial cities	Magnitogorsk	31%
Name the proletarian culture movement	Proletkult	31%
How many rebels were deported in the Tambov rebellion?	100,000	28%
What was the name of the campaign Khrushchev used to utilise unfarmed lands?	Virgin Lands Scheme	28%
What year was the statue 'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' built?	1937	24%
What percentage of the Central Committee did Khrushchev replace?	44%	24%
What was the Bolshevik slogan used during the Revolution?	Peace, Land, Bread	24%
How many peasants were sent to gulags during Dekulakisation?	1.5 million	21%
Name the censorship office used by the Party during the NEP	Glavlit	21%
Name the 1949 event that resulted in 2000 party members arrested and dismissed	Leningrad Affair	21%
What style was developed in 1932 by the Union of Soviet Writers?	socialist realism	21%
Name the policy Brezhnev introduced in order to stabilise the party	stability of cadres	21%
What was the Russian Orthodox Church reformed into?	The Living Church	21%
What was the title Stalin gave himself meaning "leader"	Vozhd	21%
How many years did Stalin claim it would take to economically catch up with the UK and USA?	15 years	14%
What was Khrushchev promoting by expanding Party membership to 11 million so that 60% would be workers and peasants?	democratisation	14%
What agreement was made in 1975 that forced countries across Europe to adhere to human rights?	Helsinki Agreement	14%
Name the communal apartments Stalin established in which multiple families had to share one room	kommunalka	14%
How many new members joined the party due to Stalin's 1924 Lenin Enrolment policy?	128,000	10%
Who is the "father of the hydrogen bomb"?	Andrei Sakharov	10%
Why did Lenin close the Constituent Assembly after its first meeting?	Bolshevik minority	10%
What system did Yagoda (head of the NKVD) use to get confessions from people?	conveyor belt system	10%
What was Khrushchev's housing programme called?	Khrushchyova / K9	10%
Name the 1983 report that highlighted the fundamental issues within the Soviet system	Novosibirsk Report	10%
How many churches did Khrushchev close?	12,000	7%

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