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6. In what year did Lenin die following a series of strokes?

  • 1924
  • 1917
  • 1923
  • 1926

7. By 1929, why did people support Stalin in ending the NEP and putting peasants into collectives?

  • The NEP was too expensive
  • The peasants were rioting and causing disruption
  • There were shortages of grain because the peasants did not want to give it to the government
  • There were shortages of grain because the was a famine

8. Why did Lenin's Last Testament make it harder to find a successor to lead the party?

  • It criticised all prominent Bolsheviks and gave no instructions on what to do after his death
  • It was lost, so no one knew what Lenin had wanted.
  • No one could read what it said.
  • It advised that Stalin should become leader of the USSR, but other Bolsheviks didn't want this.

9. Who wrote the article "Lessons of October" in 1924?

  • Kamenev
  • Bukharin
  • Trotsky
  • Stalin

10. Why did Trotsky's personality stop him becoming leader of the USSR?

  • He was arrogant and rude, and unpleasant to those he considered stupid
  • He was considered too soft
  • He was working-class and the people thought he was coarse and thuggish
  • He had moodswings