history dates and statistics (russia - stalin & WWII)

when did trotsky fall ill with a malaria-like infection?

1923

when did lenin call for stalin to be replaced/trotsky called him "the party's most eminent minority?"

1923

when was lenin's funeral?

jan 27, 1924

when did stalin, kamenev and zinoviev form the triumvirate?

1924

when was trotsky sacked as war commissioner?

1925

when did stalin turn against kamenev and zinoviev/ally himself with bukharin?

1926

when are kamenev, zinoviev, and trotsky expelled from the communist party?

1927

when was trotsky exiled?

jan 1928

when was trotsky expelled from the ussr?

1929

when was bukharin expelled from the communist party?

1929

when did the purges begin?

1934

when was kirov murdered?

dec 1, 1934

when did the show trials start?

aug 19, 1936

how many members of the red army were executed in the purges? (_k)

30k

when did the great terror end?

nov 1938

how many officers were killed in the great terror? (_k)

25k

what % of officers were killed in the great terror?

20%

what % of russians were communists in 1928?

20%

what % of kolkhoz produce was sold to the state in collectivisation?

90%

how many million tons short of grain was russia in 1928?

2

how many million kulak households were deported?

1

roughly how many million kulaks were deported?

5

how much of an increase in % was predicted for industrial production in the first fyp?

200%

how much of an increase in % was predicted in consumer products and production in the third fyp?

200%

how many mosques were there in russia in 1917? (__k)

26k

how many mosques were there in the ussr in 1935? (_k)

1.3k

how many churches in 1939 held regular services?

1/40

by the 1930s, how many bishops were there in the ussr?

single figures

over how many million german troops invaded the ussr on june 22, 1941?

2

how many thousand russian aircraft were destroyed on the ground in the german invasion of 1941? (_k)

1.2k

in nov 1941, the temperature fell below what?

0°C

how many million officers did zhukov have in stalingrad after the german surrender in feb 1943?

1.3k

how many tanks did zhukov have in stalingrad after the german surrender in feb 1943? (_k)

3k

when was the german invasion?

june 22, 1941

what month and year was the nazi-soviet pact signed?

aug 1939

when did the germans sense victory in wwii?

oct 1941

what year did stalin set out his collectivisation ideas?

1929

what years were the holodamor famine?

1932 - 1933

what years were the first fyp?

1928 - 1932

what years were the second fyp?

1933 - 1937

what years were the third fyp?

1937 - 1942

in what month and year was the magazine with stalin projected into the sky?

dec 1949

what year was dmitry shostakovich's opera criticised?

1934

what was dmitry shostakovich's opera called?

lady macbeth of mtsesk

when was ostrovsky's novel published?

1934

what was ostrovsky's novel called?

how the steel was tempered

over how many thousand factories were moved to the ural mountains in the east as part of stalin's 'scorched earth' policy? (_k)

1k

in what year were only 1/40 churches holding regular services?

1939

in what year was the moscow metro opened?

1935

in what year did the ussr begin to triumph over germany?

1943

in what year do german troops surrender in stalingrad?

1943

when did ussr forces reach Berlin?

apr 1945

in what year did the ussr's economy reach the levels of 1940?

1944

what was the name of the famine in ukraine?

holodamor

how many million people died in the holodamor famine?

7

over how many million soviet people were killed in wwii?

20

was the no. of people that died in wwii more or less than the purges/terror?

more

how many thousand collective farms were destroyed after wwii? (_k)

100k

how many thousand towns & cities were destroyed in wwii?

2k

how many thousand villages were destroyed in wwii?

70k

what year was magnitogorsk built?

1929

when did the 'scorched earth' policy of wwii begin?

1941

by what year had roughly 5 million kulaks been deported?

1934

by what year were most farms collectivised?

1936

what year was stalingrad renamed?

1925

what month and year was the tehran conference?

nov 1943

what month and year was the yalta conference?

feb 1945

who supplied goods to the ussr in the lend lease scheme?

the us

what years were the lend lease scheme between the ussr and the usa?

1941 - 45

how many thousand workers died building the belomor canal? (_k)

100k