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Who founded the Soviet Union? | Vladimir Lenin | 71%
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Which country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979? | Afghanistan | 55%
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What was the name of the crisis caused by the Soviet Union surreptitious planting nuclear missiles on Cuba? | Cuban Missile Crisis | 48%
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What were the two major reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called? | Glasnost | Perestroika | 44%
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What was the name of the treaty under which the USSR conceded huge swaths of territory to Germany in 1918? | Brest-Litovsk | 40%
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Which Soviet leader triumphed in a power struggle with Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoview, Bukharin, Tomsky, and Rykov? | Josef Stalin | 34%
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When that attempt failed, which economic policy did Lenin adopt in 1923? | New Economic Policy | 34%
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During which decades did the Soviet Union's economy begin to stagnate? | 1970s | 33%
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What was the Soviet Union's first attempt at introducing a communist economy called? | War Communism | 27%
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Which major Middle Eastern country defected from the Soviet orbit and went into the U.S. orbit? | Egypt | 23%
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Who was the Soviet leader who banged his shoe on the table at a UN meeting? | Nikita Khrushchev | 23%
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How many former European satellite states freed themselves from communism in 1989? | Six | 16%
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Whose assassination became the catalyst for the reign of terror under which thousands of Russians were convicted in show trials and executed? | Kirov | 15%
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What was the name of the economic policy that collectivized all the Russian farms, caused a man-made famine, and facilitated rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union? | First Five Year Plan | 8%
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What was the Soviet Union's temporary treaty with Nazi Germany called? | Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact | 2%
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