Section 5: Stalinism, politics and control 1929-1943. Dictatorship and Stalinism The Yezhovshchina Culture and society Stalin and international relations
(CHAPTER 17 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. What group was established by Lenin to create a police state? 2. What did Lenin call them? 3. What was this group transformed into in 1922? 4. What was their extended role? 5. How did Stalin sue terror to his advantage? 6. What does state terror mean? 7. What does purge mean? 8. What does chistka mean? 9. What was the Shakhty Trial and what was it outcomes? 10. What highlighted Stalin s lack of control in the USSR? 11. What was the Ryutin Platform? 12. Why was it damaging to Stalin? 13. How did Stalin deal with this situation? 14. What was internal security passed to in 1934? 15. Create a timeline of who was in charge of the internal security in the next two decades. 16. What happened at the Seventeenth Party Congress 1934? 17. Who was Kirov? 18. Why was this so significant for how power was distribute din the USSR? 19. Why was the Kirov murder suspicious? 20. What was the outcome of the murder of Kirov, i.e. punishments? 21. Why was Yagoda put on trial? 22. What did the death of Kirov signal? 23. How were show trials used? What were there purpose? 24. What was the new law decreed in 1935? 25. What happened at the first major show trial in August 1936? 26. What was the outcome of the Trial? 27. What was the Stalin s Constitution heralded as in 1936? 28. Identify some of the promises and changes that were proposed through the Constitution. 29. Did Stalin stick to the Constitution? Identify points as to why or why not.
(CHAPTER 18 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. What was NKVD Order 00447? 2. Who drew it up? 3. When it drawn up and what was were its aims? 4. Who was on the arrest list? 5. How many people had been arrested in a month? 6. Who were the NKVD particularly looking to root out? 7. What was a show trial? What were their purpose? 8. Who were the 17 on trial in January 1937? 9. Why were the military purged? 10. What were the arrested officer s accused of? 11. What were the effects of the Great Purge of the Red Army? 12. How many officials were shot for not completing executions? (not millions) 13. What were the Trial of 21 accused of? 14. What did Bukharin do whilst in prison? 15. How many were executed out of the 21? 16. What did the purges around the country allow? 17. In total what percentage of the Party had been purged by the end of 1938? 18. How many people were in the gulags in 1935 compared to the end of 1938? 19. Where had Trotsky been in exile since 1929? 20. Why was the term class enemies changed to anti-soviet enemies? 21. What were the conditions like in the gulags? 22. What nationalities and groups were targeted by Stalin? 23. Why did the Yezhovschina have to slow down? 24. What happened to Yezhov? 25. Who was the last old Bolshevik? What was his fate? 26. What event supposed caused the great purges and extreme terror? 27. Identify three other reasons for the terror. 28. What position was Stalin in by the end of the purges? 29. In 1939 what % of party members were left from before 1920? 30. How many army officers were shot in the military purges? 31. What was the result of this? 32. How had the Red Army grown 1936-1941? 33. Where else was their shortages? 34. What had this given the opportunity for?
(CHAPTER 19 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. What did Marx call religion? And what was it used for? 2. What happened to religion during Lenin s reign? 3. What did Sergius promise? 4. How did Stalin react to religion? 5. What happened to soviet Muslims? 6. Did all of the attacks work? Evidence to back your answer up. 7. What were the key differences in opinions and policies towards women for Lenin and Stalin? 8. How was the family and the new women represented in propaganda? 9. What was the family code? 10. Did all these policies work? Use evidence to back up you view point. 11. Why did Stalin believe education in 1920s was failing? 12. How did Stalin change education? 13. Who was responsible for many schools? 14. Who was in control of universities? 15. What was abandoned in 1035? 16. What was the Stakhovite system? 17. What were the less able forced into? 18. Overall were education policies successful from 1917-1941? Give evidence. 19. What was the Komsomol? 20. What values did Stalin insist on for his youth? 21. What did youth groups offer children? 22. What did working men hope would happen with industrialisation? 23. Who did the best it if Stalinist policies? Why? 24. Who benefitted the least? 25. What had higher levels of literacy encouraged? 26. What did the young rural workers dream of? 27. What was a kommunalka? 28. What were the conditions like in many urban areas? 29. Why did life improve between 1935-7? 30. Who coped the best with all the changes and why? 31. Explain what a socialist man was? 32. Who was Lysenko and what did he believe could happen? 33. What was the purpose of a shock brigade? 34. What was the purpose of an artistic brigade? 35. Give an example of when an artistic had been discredited or purged and why. 36. Around what figure actually supported the Stalinist regime (according to Dr John Barber)? 37. Give some examples of how Stalin changed Lenin s work? 38. Identify three similarities of Stalin and Lenin s party and control.
(CHAPTER 20 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. Name the two treaties that the USSR and Germany agreed on. 2. How did both countries benefit from the treaties? 3. What sus Stalin believe the rise of Hitler would do? 4. When did the Rapallo period stop? Why? 5. What happened in 1933? 6. Who were the Riga watchers? 7. Who was Maksim Litvinov and why was he seen as an acceptable face? 8. Why did the USSR fear Japanese aggression? 9. What was the League of Nations? 10. Who withdrew from the League of Nations? 11. When did the USSR join the League of Nations? 12. How did Stalin move further towards collective security? 13. What was the new policy of popular fronts? 14. What were the pacts made with France and Czechoslovakia? 15. When did collective security take a serious step back? 16. When was eth Spanish Civil War? 17. Why did the soviets send advisors? Were these advisors successful? 18. What was the consequences of eth Spanish Civil war for the USSR? 19. By 1938 why was Stalin fearing its position and the decisions he had already made in foreign policy? 20. What was appeasement? Why was it introduced? 21. What was the Munich Conference and why did it annoy the Soviet Union? 22. What was the Anti-Comintern pact? 23. What was the outcome of the battle at Khalkin Gol? 24. While the battle was happening what was being signed? 25. What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact? 26. What was Stalin afraid of and wanted to avoid? 27. Why did Stalin not sign a treaty with Britain and France? 28. Who benefitted the most from the Pact? 29. What was the Winter War? 30. What date did the invasion of Poland begin? 31. What date did the Germans in vase the USSR? 32. What position were USSR in by this point? 33. Why has Soviet Historian Alexandr Nekrich called Stalin s foreign policy zig-zag policy?