Previous wrong questions

Question 1

The Great Terror started with the assassination of…

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Sergei Kirov

Question 1

What is a kommunalka?

Answer 1

The correct answer is: A shared house

Question 2

Minerals, including copper and tin, were mined for the first time during…

Answer 2

The correct answer is: The Second Five Year Plan

Question 3

Brezhnev had the ‘order of victory’ award posthumously revoked because:

Answer 3

The correct answer is: The criteria for the honour had not been met

Question 4

Brezhnev awarded himself the highest military honour, as well as the Order Of Victory in 1978. What was the ‘highest military honour’?

Answer 4

The correct answer is: Marshal of the Soviet Union

Question 5

Khrushchev tried to promote himself as:

Answer 5

The correct answer is: A military hero

Question 6

Khrushchev declared abortion legal in which year?

Answer 6

The correct answer is: 1955

Question 7

Emergency economic measures had to be put in place with the emergence of the Civil War in 1918. This was known as…?

Answer 7

The correct answer is: War Communism

Question 8

How many ‘extracts’/ interpretations will you be given in the Paper 1 exam?

Answer 8

The correct answer is: Two

Question 9

Who were Stalin’s competitors for leadership?

Answer 9

The correct answer is: Khrushchev and Trotsky

Question 10

When was the first Five Year Plan?

Answer 10

The correct answer is: 1928-32

Question 11

In January 1959 Khrushchev launched his seven-year plan which increased investment in…

Answer 11

The correct answer is: Light industry

Question 12

The human chain that spanned 675.5 kilometres (419 miles) across the Baltic states was known as (TWO CORRECT ANSWERS)…

Answer 12

The correct answers are: The Baltic Way

, The Baltic Chain

Question 12

When was the Hungarian Uprising?

Answer 12

The correct answer is: 1956

Question 13

In which year did, the BBC decide to begin broadcasting radio services for Soviet citizens?

Answer 13

The correct answer is: 1946

Question 14

When was the Prague Spring?

Answer 14

The correct answer is: 1968

Question 15

The NEP led to uneven economic growth. Agriculture recovered quickly but increased supply of food led to a fall in prices of farming/ agriculture. Industry recovered much slowly, so prices rose. Thus a ‘gap’ developed between the farmers’ incomes and industrial prices. WHO called this the ‘scissor crisis’?

Answer 15

The correct answer is: Trotsky

Question 16

When did Moscow Metro’s first line open?

Answer 16

The correct answer is: 1935

Question 17

The Stakhanovite movement took its name from

Answer 17

The correct answer is: Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, who had mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours

Question 18

When was the Tiananmen Square Incident?

Answer 18

1976

Question 19

In 1949, what was the literacy rate in China?

Answer 19

The correct answer is: 20%

Question 20

When was the “Cleansing the class ranks” campaign?

Answer 20

The correct answer is: 1968-1971

Question 21

Who created the Third Five Year Plan?

Answer 21

The correct answer is: Chen Yun

Question 22

In 1956 only 50% of 7-16 year olds were in full-time education. What was this figure by 1976?

Answer 22

The correct answer is: 96%

Question 23

When was Communist China actually announced?

Answer 23

The correct answer is: 1st October 1949

Question 24

When was footbinding banned?

Answer 24

The correct answer is: 1902

Question 25

What was the Anti-rightist campaign?

Answer 25

The correct answer is: This was the campaign that came after the Hundred Flowers Campaign in which the people who had criticised were now criticised themselves and punished.

Question 26

What did the Land Law of 1950 allow, which went against Confucian tradition?

Answer 26

The correct answer is: women could now own land

Question 26

What was the literacy rate in 1976?

Answer 26

The correct answer is: 70%

Question 27

What was the quote that started the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

Answer 27

The correct answer is: ‘Let a hundred flowers blossom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.'

Question 28

Along with Mao, who else died of illness in 1976?

Answer 28

The correct answer is: Zhou Enlai

Question 29

When was the Hundred Flowers Campaign started?

Answer 29

The correct answer is: 1957

Question 30

What were the Five Antis?

Answer 30

The correct answer is: industrial sabotage, tax evasion, bribery, fraud, and theft of government property.