| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The original leader of the Soviet Union | Vladimir Lenin | 89%
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| The communists before the revolution | Bolsheviks | 78%
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| Formerly St. Petersburg, this city suffered casualties of more the 600,000 people as the result of a Nazi siege | Leningrad | 78%
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| Bolshevik newspaper | Pravda | 78%
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| Replaced Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union | Joseph Stalin | 68%
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| Stalin's archenemy | Leon Trotsky | 60%
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| Organization linking all Communists | Comintern | 35%
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| Influential group of seven policy makers | Politburo | 33%
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| Denounced Stalin but continued many of his policies | Nikita Khrushchev | 32%
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| The common people in the Soviet Union | Proletariat | 26%
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| Policy accused of being pro-capitalist | NEP | 24%
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| A revival of the Comintern | Cominform | 16%
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| Editor of Pravda who was executed in 1938 | Nikolai Bukharin | 15%
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| The purest ruling system of the people | Marxism | 14%
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| Policies that sought to bring the Soviet Union into the industrial age | 5 Year Plans | 13%
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| The upper middle class in the Soviet Union | Bourgeoisie | 12%
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| Murdered for his denouncement of the punishment of Riutin | Kirov | 12%
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| The people manage all aspects of the country | Dictatorship of the Proletariat | 11%
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| Followers named after a man that mined 227 tons of coal in a single shift | Stakhanovites | 9%
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| A mass execution of Polish Nationals | The Katyn Massacre | 9%
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| These two members of the Politburo formed a troika against Trotsky but later joined forces with him to create the United Opposition against Stalin | Kamenev and Zinoviev | 7%
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| Leader of the NKVD who was executed after Stalin's death | Lavrenti Beria | 7%
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| Created to coordinate and organize the Soviet Economy and allocate resources for the Five Year Plans | Gosplan | 6%
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| A document written by Lenin before his death detailing future changes to the leadership and structure of the Soviet Union's government | Lenin's Testament | 6%
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| A ploy by Stalin to crush dissent | The Great Terror | 6%
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| Forcing communists on peasants | War Communism | 6%
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| The claim that collectivization had been pushed ahead too quickly by party officials who were ... | "Dizzy With Success" | 4%
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| Murdered for his denouncement of the NEP | Riutin | 3%
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| Chose the members of the Poiltburo | Secretariat | 3%
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| Trade organization among communist states | Comecom | 2%
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| Controlled more mundane aspects of running the party | Orgburo | 2%
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| Banned by the Party, reinstated after World War Two | Russian Orthodox Church | 2%
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| A Russian retreat from Poland and Galicia during World War I | The Great Retreat | 2%
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| A harsh peace treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany that resulted in many Soviet resources and land being lost | The Treaty of Brest Litovsk | 2%
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| Where Lenin proposed the Resolution on Party Unity | 10th Party Congress (1921) | 1%
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| Granted numerous personal freedoms unless those freedoms interfered with the integrity of the country | Constitution of 1936 | 1%
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| The Party manages all aspects of the country | Dictatorship of the Party | 1%
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| Opposed to the NEP | Left Deviationists | 1%
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| Governments composed of leftist parties | Popular Front | 1%
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| Supported the NEP | Right Deviationists | 1%
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| The Chinese Communist party united to fight the Japanese | Second United Front | 1%
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| Show trials in which "experts" were convicted of breaking machinery used in coal mining | The Shakhty Trials | 1%
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| The fear that the Soviet Union was surrounded by enemies | The War Scare | 1%
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