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6. When was the grain supply crisis that helped Stalin crush the NEP?

  • 1928
  • 1927
  • 1926
  • 1929

7. What did the NEP make Lenin do?

  • Demote Stalin from his position of General Secretary
  • Regenerate war communism
  • Decree on Party Unity 1921
  • Purges of the Bolshevik party

8. Which of the following was NOT a problem of the NEP?

  • Unemployment grew from 160,000 to 1.741 million from 1922-1929
  • The Politburo quickly grew and replaced Sovnarkom in importance
  • Created divisions in the Party
  • Exports in 1926/7 were only 33% of 1913 levels

9. How did the NEP initially affect the economy?

  • Electricity quadrupled between 1921 and 1924
  • Destroyed peasant communes
  • Wages decreased by 10-60%
  • Factory output fell

10. What reflects the anger surrounding NEPmen?

  • Lenin issues a law to prevent monopolies from emerging
  • Government closed down 300,000 shops and market stalls
  • flash that lit up reality more than anything else
  • Terror used against 20,000 NEPmen who profited greatly

11. Which of the following was NOT an intended policy of the NEP?

  • State control of Heavy industry
  • Ending of grain requisitioning
  • Small businesses being reopened
  • Encouragement of gambling to increase investment
  • Ban on private trade being removed