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