Question 1

One of the chief rewards for the workers in the new Soviet Union of the 1930s was

Accepted Answer

A)  improved and expanded housing. 
B)  mass educational facilities. 
C)  a decisive voice in public affairs. 
D)  security of life and property against the state. 
E)  improvements in their working conditions. 
A)  improved and expanded housing. 
B)  mass educational facilities. 
C)  a decisive voice in public affairs. 
D)  security of life and property against the state. 
E)  improvements in their working conditions.

Question 2

Describe and explain the emergence of Josef Stalin from the power struggles of 1924 to 1927, as the undisputed master of the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 192

Question 3

It would be most accurate to say of Leon Trotsky that

Accepted Answer

A)  all agree that he would have made a "better" leader of Bolshevik Russia than did Stalin. 
B)  Stalin realized as soon as Lenin returned to Moscow that Trotsky would be his most potent rival for Lenin's approval. 
C)  he was most responsible for persuading the St. Petersburg Soviet to join Lenin's camp, thus sidelining Kerensky. 
D)  he and Kerensky had much in common, including their ambition to rule Russia. 
E)  he developed Lenin's very successful slogan, "Land, bread, peace." 
A)  all agree that he would have made a "better" leader of Bolshevik Russia than did Stalin. 
B)  Stalin realized as soon as Lenin returned to Moscow that Trotsky would be his most potent rival for Lenin's approval. 
C)  he was most responsible for persuading the St. Petersburg Soviet to join Lenin's camp, thus sidelining Kerensky. 
D)  he and Kerensky had much in common, including their ambition to rule Russia. 
E)  he developed Lenin's very successful slogan, "Land, bread, peace."

Question 4

Stalin's political methods have been described as

Accepted Answer

A)  roughshod. 
B)  eerily successful. 
C)  generally a failure. 
D)  Mafia-like. 
E)  twisted. 
A)  roughshod. 
B)  eerily successful. 
C)  generally a failure. 
D)  Mafia-like. 
E)  twisted.

Question 5

Lenin had been an exile living in ____________________ and ____________________ before he returned to Russia in 1917.

Accepted Answer

Switzerlan

Question 6

Toward the end of his life, Lenin had come to view Stalin as

Accepted Answer

A)  reliable. 
B)  religious. 
C)  righteous. 
D)  reprehensible. 
E)  rude. 
A)  reliable. 
B)  religious. 
C)  righteous. 
D)  reprehensible. 
E)  rude.

Exam 44: The Soviet Experiment to World War Ii

One of the chief rewards for the workers in the new Soviet Union of the 1930s was

Describe and explain the emergence of Josef Stalin from the power struggles of 1924 to 1927, as the undisputed master of the Soviet Union.

It would be most accurate to say of Leon Trotsky that

Stalin's political methods have been described as

Lenin had been an exile living in ____________________ and ____________________ before he returned to Russia in 1917.

Toward the end of his life, Lenin had come to view Stalin as

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