State Terror

‘Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship’ was published in ____ by _____

• Ryutin

• 1932

The terror killed __% of the population, or roughly __ ____ people

• 10%

• 10 million

1936 Constitution

• rights

• votes

• nationality

Death Penalty expanded to include anyone aware of subversive activities

1935

Votes for Stalin at the ______ party conference

• 927

• seventeenth

Votes for Kirov at the ______ party conference

• 1225

• seventeenth

What did Ryutin publish in 1932?

Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship

_____ blocked Stalin from executing Ryutin, who was instead given __ years in prison

• Kirov

• 10

When was the Metro-Vickers trial against British engineers for sabotage?

1933

In ____ ____, children over the age of __ were given adult punishment for crimes, including the __ _____, which was used to coerce confessions from parents.

• April 1934

• 12

• Death Penalty

By 1934, what proportion of the party was purged as _______?

• 1/5

• ryutinites

When was the Industrial Party show trial?

1930

Trial of 16 (___) condemned _____, ______ and _____ (in absentia) to death.

• 1936

• Zinoviev

• Kamnev

• Trotsky

____ gained favour with Stalin through uncovering the Kremlin Plot (___)

• Yezhov

• 1935

The Kremlin Plot targeted ___ Kremlin staff including cleaners, tea-ladies and librarians following ____’s muder, and the discovery of a so-called plot to assassinate Stalin

• 110

• Kirov

The commissar of _____ and ____, the framer of the 1936 constitution were executed in the Trial of __ (___)

• finance

• Radek

• 17 (1937)

Tukhachevsky’s wife was jailed and executed in ___, with his ___ and ____ and _ _____ also dying in prison.

• 1941

• mother

• sister

• 2 brothers

In the Trial of the __ (1937), __ _____ who was said to have caused explosions in the mines of Siberia, was condemned to __ years in prison.

• 17

• Grigorii Pyatakov

• 10

The accused in the Trial of the 17 were called “ Vipers, ____ , ____, and ____ _____.

liars, clowns and insignificant pygmies

When was the Trial of the 21?

March 1938

Bukharin held out for _ months and sent __ personal letters to Stalin before confessing to the “sum total of crimes’

• 3

• 34

In ____ _____, Order ____ gave the NKVD unlimited powers of arrest and execution

• July 1937

• 00447

Name 3 targeted nationalities

• afghans

• chinese

• koreans

How many military Officers were purged?

35,000

NKVD officers purged

20,000

army purges included

• All admirals

• all but one air force commander

• General Tukhachevsky

Gulag population in 1941

8 million

Gulag slave labour was used to build the ___ ____ ____ which was finished in ____

• White Sea Canal

• 1933

The Terror ended in ___ with the arrest of ____

• 1939

• Yezhov

When Trotsky was killed in ___, his the mother of his killer was given an ____ ___ _____

• 1940

• Order of Lenin

It has been estimated that there was only _ NKVD informer for every ____ people, however the perception and fear would have been much greater

• 1

• 400

One month after Order 0047, in ___ ___, over ______ people had been arrested, and _____ sent to the gulag

• Aug 1937

• 100,000

• 14,000

Name the 3 high profile accused in the Trial of the 21 (1938)

• Bukharin

• Rykov

• Yagoda

The old bolsheviks in the Trial of the 21 were accused of conspiring to assassinate ___ in ___, and conspiring with the _____ to destroy the USSR.

• Lenin

• 1918

• Germans

In ____ Trotsky claimed Stalin had ____ the revolution in his book ‘___ _____ ______’

• 1937

• perverted

• The Revolution Betrayed

In 1941, _____ Volga Germans were deported to Siberia and Central Asia

400,000

Due to the threat from Japan, in ____, the large ____ minority in the Far East was deported to Central Asia.

• 1937

• Korean

______ were targeted by the NKVD as a ‘suspect group’

Roma