2.2 questions

1. Lenin's NEP was a direct result of:

1. World War 1
2. the Russian Revolution
3. the Civil War
4. the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

capitalism

communism

2. make the correct combinations

businesses are owned by the state

big difference between poor and rich

you work to make a profit for yourself

peasant must sell their crops to the state

the state controls the economy

3. Explain why Lenin’s New Economic Policy is described as ‘a step backwards from communism and towards capitalism’.

4. Why did Lenin decide on this policy?

5. A historian once said: "With the NEP Lenin poured water into the red wine". Can you explain what he meant?

6. How had Stalin become so powerful when
Lenin was still alive?

1. he was trusted by Lenin
2. he gave friends important jobs in the party
3. he had helped the Bolsheviks win the Civil War
4. he had ended WW1

7. Lenin appointed Stalin as his successor in his testament

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

8a. Look at the source. Comparing Stalin and Lenin,
does the source suggest mostly change
or mostly continuity? Explain.

Stalin as the leader and Lenin’s heir. Soviet propaganda Poster (1944).

8b. Lenin would have agreed with this poster.

Write one argument to support
this statement and one argument
to renounce this statement

Stalin as the leader and Lenin’s heir. Soviet propaganda Poster (1944).

9. Stalin felt that the Soviet Union needed to become an industrial superpower in order to compete with the capitalist countries

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

10. In a totalitarian state privacy is an important value

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

11a. In a Five Year Plan factories were told to make as much profit as possible within 5 years.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

11b. Five Year plans fit well in a totalitarian state

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

12. Use the data to support the
statement that the Five-Year Plan
was a success and a failure as well.

13. How should the text on the poster be understood,
when interpreted through the eyes of a
Soviet citizen in the 1930s?

a Soviet propaganda poster. The caption says ‘Factory smoke is the breath of Soviet-Russia’. Nowadays, most people probably do not consider air pollution to be synonymous with something as essential to life as breathing.

13b. What do you think a Soviet factory manager’s
priority would be?

1. Making a high quality product
2. The safety of the workers
3. Getting the job done in time
4. Making profit

14a. Collectivisation comes from the word "collective".
Which word does NOT belong to "collective"?

1. together
2. cooperation
3. acting as a group
4. individual

14b. Explain what was collective about the "Collectivisation" of the Soviet agriculture.

15. Why were kulaks seen as enemies of communism?

16a. Here you see the logo of the communist party
of the Soviet Union. It contains of two tools.
Choose the number and write down
the name of the tool and write down whether
this was used in industry or agriculture

16b. In the logo, both tools seem connected.
Under Stalin, the connection between industry
and agriculture became explicit. Explain how
industry could benefit from the increasing
agricultural production.

16c. In what way could agriculture benefit
from industrial development?

17. click on the link "video" in the text slide and watch
the video.

Explain the causal relationship between
collectivisation and Mrs. Karpenko’s story.

18. Why are trials in which opponents of Stalin were tried called "show trials"?

19. A person is not guilty until tried and proven guilty. This statement is one of the cornerstones of our current rule of law.
How does this differ from the judicial situation in the Soviet Union?

20. What was the purpose of the Great Purge?

21. Read the text in the hotspot.
Explain how the altering of history contributed
to Stalin’s cult of personality.

Stalin’s daughter Svetlana wrote in her autobiography: ‘My father revised the handbook “A short history of the communist party in the Soviet Union”. By doing that, he made sure everyone who had ever opposed him, disappeared completely from history. The first of them was Trotsky, once his primary rival.’

22. Read the source.
This source fits best with:

1. collectivisation
2. the period of the NEP
3. the Purges
4. the final phase of the first Five-Year Plan

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