AQA AS Level History- Struggle for Power in the USSR

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Created on: 07-04-14 17:26

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

1924

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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

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What did other Bolsheviks think of Stalin in 1924?

They underestimated him, thinking he was uneducated and boring

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

Trotsky

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Who made up the Triumvirate in 1924?

Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev

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Which policy did Trotsky support in 1925?

Permanent Revolution

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Why did the Right Wing support Stalin in 1925?

They belived his policy of Socialism in One Country fit with their wish for gradual industrialisation

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

He was arrogant and rude, and unpleasant to those he considered stupid

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Who joined together to form the United Opposition in 1926?

Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky

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

There were shortages of grain because the peasants did not want to give it to the government

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AQA AS Level History- Struggle for Power in the USSR