Stalin 1924-40

When did Stalin form a triumvirate and who with?

Zinoviev and Kamenev 1922

When was Lenin’s testement released to the central committee?

1924

By when was Stalin the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union?

December 1929

What year was the constitution created?

1936

When was the first five year plan?

1928-32

What happened to coal levels during the first five year plan?

1927 - 35 million tonnes 1932 - 64 million tonnes

When was the second five year plan?

1933-37

What were two successes during the ‘three good years’?

1) 1932 Dnieprostrio Dam 2) 1935 Moscow Metro

By what year was the USA virtually self sufficient and what in?

1937 virtually self sufficient in metal goods and machine tools

How did rearmament change during the second five year plan?

1933 - 4% of GDP 1937 - 17% of GDP

When was the third five year plan?

1938-42

What happened to rearmament spending in the third five year plan?

Doubled from 1938-40

When was stage 1 of collectivisation?

1929-30

By what month in 1930 was what percentage of peasant household collectivised?

March 1930 58% collectivised

When was stage 2 of collectivisation?

1930-41

By what year was 100% of households collectivised?

1941

How many farmers did dekulakisation remove?

10 million

How long did it take until grain and livestock reached pre-collectivisation levels?

1953

Under collectivisation what percentage of meat and milk came from private plots?

70%

When were ‘rewards’ induced to reward skills?

1931

What were two changes in policies towards women introduced in 1936?

1) abortion banned 2) contraception banned

How many women were still working in 1940?

13 million

On average how much less did women earn?

40%

How many abortions were there still for every live births?

150,000 for 57,000 live births

By what year was what percentage of the 9-49 age group literate?

By 1941 94%

What year did Komsomol become affiliated with the party?

1939

By what year how many Christian churches had closed?

1941 40,000

By 1937 what percentage of the population were still ‘believers’?

57%

In what year did learning Russian become compulsory in all schools?

1938

When did Stalin’s wife commit suicide?

1932

When was Kirov murdered?

December 1934

When was the political purge of Zinoviev and Kamenev?

1935

When was Kamenev and Zinoviev’s show trial and what were they accused of and what happened?

1936 - accused of a plot to murder Stalin, all executed

When was the show trial of 17 prominent communists and what happened to them?

1937 - 13 sentenced to death

How many members of the high command was there and how many were executed?

767 members, 512 executed

When was the show trial that saw Bukharin and Yagoda sentenced to death?

1938

When was the ‘quota’ system for arrests established?

1937

What percentage of central committee members at the 17 th party congress were shot?

70%

How many from ethnic minority groups were put on trial?

350,000

Approximately how many NKVD men were put on trial?

23,000

What percentage of arrests and executions were Kulaks?

50%

When was Yagoda shot?

1940