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6. What was the name of the female part of government that was closed under Stalin?

  • Zhenotdel
  • Cheka
  • Zenodel
  • Okhrana

7. Between 1929 and 1935, did women in work increase and by how much?

  • Increased from 5% to 25%
  • No change
  • Increased from 29% to 42%
  • Decreased from 44% to 37%

8. How effective was the Family Code of 1936

  • Somewhat - Women were treated a bit better
  • Not very - Divorce rates were still high at 37% in Moscow
  • Abortion became non-existent
  • Very - divorce rates dropped by 40%

9. Why was Myerhold executed?

  • Appealing for artistic liberty
  • For being a doctor
  • Insulting Stalin
  • Falsifying production statistics

10. How many survivers of war were sent to labour camps?

  • 1.2m
  • 120,000
  • 12m
  • 120m

11. What was the organisation that censored writers?

  • Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP)
  • Soviet People Against Slanderous Writing (SPASW)
  • Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPW)
  • The NKVD

12. What were the names of the youth groups in Soviet Russia? (The youngest first)

  • Scouts and Twenty-Five Thousanders
  • NKVD and KGB
  • Pioneers and Komsomol
  • Komsomol and Pioneers

13. How much less did women earn compared to men under Stalin?

  • 70%
  • 60%
  • 40%
  • 15%

14. Between 1929 and 1940, how did work weeks change?

  • No change
  • Sunday was a holy day and day off
  • 6/7 day working week and different days off
  • Family units all had the same day off

15. By 1941 how many religious buildings had been closed or converted?

  • 40,000 mosques and 20,000 churches
  • 40,000 churches and 25,000 mosques
  • 40,000 churches and 20,000 mosques
  • 40,000 mosques and 25,000 churches

16. Between 1936 and 1937, how many films were withdrawn mid-production?

  • 68 of 150 films
  • 68 of 300 films
  • 73 of 100 films
  • 124 of 150 films

17. How many members did the Komsomol have by 1927?

  • 11m
  • 2m
  • 500,000
  • 7m

18. How many plays were banned in 1937-38?

  • 200
  • 140
  • 60
  • none

19. How much investment was there in education under Stalin?

  • Lots - almost 200,000 secondary schools by 1941
  • No change occurred under Stalinist rule
  • None - Secondary school pupils decreased from 12m in 1927 to 1.8m in 1939
  • Some - Schools became more effective